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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 5, Issue 9, Pages 4300-4307Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta00069c
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- NSF [ECCS-1610806]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51572145, 51221291]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys [1610806] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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While lithium metal anodes have the highest theoretical capacity for rechargeable batteries, they are plagued by the growth of lithium dendrites, side reactions, and a moving contact interface with the electrolyte during cycling. Here, we synthesize a non-porous, elastomeric solid-electrolyte separator, which not only blocks dendritic growth more effectively than traditional polyolefin separators at large current densities, but also accommodates the large volume change of lithium metal by elastic deformation and conformal interfacial motion. Specially designed transparent capillary cells were assembled to observe the dynamics of the lithium/rubber interface in situ. Further experiments in coin cells at a current density of 10 mA cm(-2) and an areal capacity of 10 mA h cm(-2) show improved cycling stability with this new rubber separator.
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