Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 34, Issue 28, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202202552
Keywords
electroplating; zinc-metal anodes; zinc rechargeable batteries
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- Royal Society
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Faraday Institution
- EPSRC [EP/N010868/1, EP/R010145/1]
- DCCEM, at the Materials Department, Oxford [EP/R010145/1]
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By using single-crystal zinc metal anodes, dendrite formation in zinc batteries can be effectively suppressed, enabling high-capacity planar zinc electrodeposition. Such dendrite-free electrode exhibits excellent electrochemical performance and maintains its integrity even after prolonged cycling.
Despite being one of the most promising candidates for grid-level energy storage, practical aqueous zinc batteries are limited by dendrite formation, which leads to significantly compromised safety and cycling performance. In this study, by using single-crystal Zn-metal anodes, reversible electrodeposition of planar Zn with a high capacity of 8 mAh cm(-2) can be achieved at an unprecedentedly high current density of 200 mA cm(-2). This dendrite-free electrode is well maintained even after prolonged cycling (>1200 cycles at 50 mA cm(-)(2)). Such excellent electrochemical performance is due to single-crystal Zn suppressing the major sources of defect generation during electroplating and heavily favoring planar deposition morphologies. As so few defect sites form, including those that would normally be found along grain boundaries or to accommodate lattice mismatch, there is little opportunity for dendritic structures to nucleate, even under extreme plating rates. This scarcity of defects is in part due to perfect atomic-stitching between merging Zn islands, ensuring no defective shallow-angle grain boundaries are formed and thus removing a significant source of non-planar Zn nucleation. It is demonstrated that an ideal high-rate Zn anode should offer perfect lattice matching as this facilitates planar epitaxial Zn growth and minimizes the formation of any defective regions.
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