Zinc-air battery (ZAB) technology is a strong competitor in the automobile sector for powering automotive. Alas, there are a few issues that restrain them from being commercialized. One prominent issue which has not been discoursed thus far in alkaline ZAB is the impact of the type and content of the binder. The present work incorporates a study conducted to get insights on the impact of eleven different polymeric binders in the air electrode of an alkaline zinc-air battery. They include anion and cation conducting polymers, hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymers. The galvanostatic polarisation curves reveal a huge variation depending on the type of binder. Fumion ionomer, an anion conducting material, shows the highest current density of about 163 mA cm⁻² at 0.6 V owing to the right proportion of hydrophilic-hydrophobic segments and ion-conducting nature. A specific capacity of 770 mA h g⁻¹ was obtained when Fumion was employed as a binder with 1 mg_Pt cm⁻². Eventually, the upshot of the experiment motivated us to try a home-made less commonly known anionic binder, functionalised-Polystyrene-Block-Poly(ethylene-ran-butylene)-Block-Polystyrene, which performed on par with Nafion™ and Fumion at a practical operating voltage of ∼1.2 V.

锌空气电池（ZAB）技术是汽车领域为汽车提供动力的强大竞争对手。las，有一些问题使它们无法商业化。迄今为止，碱性ZAB中尚未讨论的一个突出问题是粘合剂的类型和含量的影响。本工作结合了一项研究，以了解11种不同的聚合物粘合剂对碱性锌-空气电池的空气电极的影响。它们包括阴离子和阳离子导电聚合物，亲水和疏水聚合物。恒电流极化曲线显示出取决于粘合剂类型的巨大变化。Fumion离聚物（一种阴离子导电材料）显示出约163 mA cm ^-2的最高电流密度由于亲水-疏水链段的比例正确且具有离子传导性，因此在0.6 V时的电导率较高。当使用Fumion作为具有1mg _Pt cm ^-2的粘合剂时，获得的比容量为770 mA hg ^-1。最终，实验的结果促使我们尝试使用一种鲜为人知的自制阴离子粘合剂，即功能化的聚苯乙烯-嵌段-聚-（乙烯-亚芳基-丁烯）-嵌段-聚苯乙烯，与Nafion™和Fumion的性能相同。实际工作电压约为1.2V。