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ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 50, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201803869
Keywords
dendrites; lithiated carbon nanotubes; lithium metal anodes; post-lithium-ion batteries; sulfur cathodes
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-14-1-0111]
- NIH [NS094535]
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The growing demand for sustainable and off-grid energy storage is reviving the attempts to use Li metal as the anode in the next generation of batteries. However, the use of Li anodes is hampered due to the growth of Li dendrites upon charging and discharging, which compromises the life and safety of the battery. Here, it is shown that lithiated multiwall carbon nanotubes (Li-MWCNTs) act as a controlled Li diffusion interface that suppresses the growth of Li dendrites by regulating the Li+ ion flux during charge/discharge cycling at current densities between 2 and 4 mA cm(-2). A full Li-S cell is fabricated to showcase the versatility of the protected Li anode with the Li-MWCNT interface, where the full cells could support pulse discharges at high currents and over 450 cycles at different rates with coulombic efficiencies close to 99.9%. This work indicates that carbon materials in lithiated forms can be an effective and simple approach to the stabilization of Li metal anodes.
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