Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 891-898Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b08141
Keywords
MXenes; 2D materials; single atoms; nucleation; lithium dendrites; lithium anodes
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFB0104200]
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Lithium (Li) metal has been considered as one of the most prospective anodes for Li-based batteries owing to its high theoretical gravimetric capacity (3860 mAh g(-1)) and low potential (-3.04 V vs standard hydrogen electrode (SHE)). Unfortunately, there commonly exist uncontrollable dendrites in lithium anodes during the repeated plating-stripping processes, causing short cycle life and even short circuiting of lithium batteries. Here, single zinc atoms immobilized on MXene (Ti3C2Clx) layers (Zn-MXene) were produced to efficiently induce Li nucleation and growth. At the initial plating stage, lithium tended to nucleate homogeneously on the surface of Zn-MXene layers due to the large presence of Zn atoms and then grow vertically along the nucleated sites owing to a strong lightning rod effect at the edges, affording bowl-like lithium without lithium dendrites. Thus, a low overpotential of 11.3 +/- 0.1 mV, long cyclic life (1200 h), and deep stripping-plating levels up to 40 mAh cm(-2) are obtained by using Zn-MXene films as lithium anodes.
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