A novel, boltless and easily assembled zinc–air battery configuration is developed to compare with the conventional configuration commonly used in most academic studies. A zinc–air battery with a boltless configuration can fundamentally avoid the man-made leakage risk by sealing the internal environment via mechanical fasteners on the battery body and enhancing the cell capacity by modifying the battery configuration. The volume energy density and the mass energy density of zinc–air battery stacks with five zinc–air batteries in series are 117.3 Wh L⁻¹ and 68.0 Wh kg⁻¹, respectively, both exceeding those of commercial lead-acid batteries. This study simulates the static and dynamic application of zinc–air battery stacks as a power supply for an electric motorcycle and a single flow battery energy storage unit, showing high commercial application potential in mobile power supply and scale energy storage.

开发了一种新颖，无螺栓且易于组装的锌-空气电池配置，以与大多数学术研究中通常使用的常规配置进行比较。采用无螺栓结构的锌-空气电池可以通过通过电池主体上的机械紧固件密封内部环境并通过修改电池配置来增强电池容量，从而从根本上避免人为泄漏的风险。具有五个串联的锌空气电池组的体积能量密度和质量能量密度分别为117.3 Wh L ^-1和68.0 Wh kg ^-1都超过了商用铅酸电池。这项研究模拟了锌空气电池组作为电动摩托车和单流电池储能单元的电源的静态和动态应用，显示了在移动电源和规模储能方面的巨大商业应用潜力。