Mechanistic Perspectives: Integration and Repairing Adaptation of Self-Healing Electrolytes for Zinc Ion Batteries

Self-healing is a magical function that endows energy storage devices with extraordinary resilience and has become a promising strategy for advancing battery technology. This short review focus on the recent developments made in self-healing chemistry for electrolytes in term of extrinsic and intrinsic dynamical concepts. Firstly, the fundamental mechanism of electrolyte self-healing and repairing adaptation is introduced. The extrinsic self-healing mechanism adopts capsule-vascular networking while intrinsic self-healing lean physical and chemical routes. The Former healing adaptation, generally follows strong physical networking and covalent linkages, which are more prevalent and practical, compared to the latter case of self-healing. In addition to that, this review also evaluates the estimated healing capabilities and statistics using thermodynamic protocols. Finally, we propose some possible future research directions and development strategies to further apply the self-healing phenomenon for zinc ion batteries.