Digital photographs showing the appearances of twenty-five Zn salt-IL-H2O mixtures prepared by freely combining five popularly used Zn salts and five commercial ILs. Sixteen single-phase liquid Wi(S/IL) electrolyte systems could be obtained. (IMAGE)

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Digital photographs showing the appearances of twenty-five Zn salt-IL-H2O mixtures prepared by freely combining five popularly used Zn salts and five commercial ILs. Sixteen single-phase liquid Wi(S/IL) electrolyte systems could be obtained.

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Expansion of the traditional "salt-bath water" strategy: By introducing ionic liquids, the limitations of the general solubility of zinc salts were overcome, significantly expanding the design space of WiS electrolytes in complex battery systems.

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Le Yu

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