{"title":"Recent Progress of Materials Design and Engineering of Aqueous Metal-Air Batteries","authors":"Joohyuk Park, Yeonguk Son","doi":"10.1007/s11814-025-00456-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Aqueous metal-air batteries have received great attention as possible candidates for environmentally sustainable energy storage systems (ESS) based on their high energy density, high safety and low cost. Particularly, a variety of aqueous metal-air batteries have been studied for practical application. However, there are limitations arising from the intrinsic properties of their components and battery designs. To address these drawbacks, a wide range of materials have been developed as promising components for next-generation aqueous metal-air batteries. This review focuses on recent progress in materials design and engineering of aqueous metal-air batteries including Zn–, Al–, Mg– and Fe–air batteries, which highlights the development of novel materials and fabrication of innovative battery systems based on the metal anode, air cathode, aqueous electrolyte and electrocatalysts. Furthermore, flexible and flow batteries are intensively introduced as advanced aqueous metal-air batteries for future electronic devices. On the basis of these viewpoints, this review provides a future direction for the commercialization of aqueous metal-air batteries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":684,"journal":{"name":"Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"42 7","pages":"1491 - 1505"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11814-025-00456-7","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Aqueous metal-air batteries have received great attention as possible candidates for environmentally sustainable energy storage systems (ESS) based on their high energy density, high safety and low cost. Particularly, a variety of aqueous metal-air batteries have been studied for practical application. However, there are limitations arising from the intrinsic properties of their components and battery designs. To address these drawbacks, a wide range of materials have been developed as promising components for next-generation aqueous metal-air batteries. This review focuses on recent progress in materials design and engineering of aqueous metal-air batteries including Zn–, Al–, Mg– and Fe–air batteries, which highlights the development of novel materials and fabrication of innovative battery systems based on the metal anode, air cathode, aqueous electrolyte and electrocatalysts. Furthermore, flexible and flow batteries are intensively introduced as advanced aqueous metal-air batteries for future electronic devices. On the basis of these viewpoints, this review provides a future direction for the commercialization of aqueous metal-air batteries.
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The Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering provides a global forum for the dissemination of research in chemical engineering. The Journal publishes significant research results obtained in the Asia-Pacific region, and simultaneously introduces recent technical progress made in other areas of the world to this region. Submitted research papers must be of potential industrial significance and specifically concerned with chemical engineering. The editors will give preference to papers having a clearly stated practical scope and applicability in the areas of chemical engineering, and to those where new theoretical concepts are supported by new experimental details. The Journal also regularly publishes featured reviews on emerging and industrially important subjects of chemical engineering as well as selected papers presented at international conferences on the subjects.