Challenges and advances in wide-temperature rechargeable lithium batteries

Y Feng, L Zhou, H Ma, Z Wu, Q Zhao, H Li… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Rechargeable lithium batteries (RLBs), including lithium-ion and lithium-metal systems,
have recently received considerable attention for electrochemical energy storage (EES) …

The passivity of lithium electrodes in liquid electrolytes for secondary batteries

X He, D Bresser, S Passerini, F Baakes… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Rechargeable Li metal batteries are currently limited by safety concerns, continuous
electrolyte decomposition and rapid consumption of Li. These issues are mainly related to …

Suspension electrolyte with modified Li+ solvation environment for lithium metal batteries

MS Kim, Z Zhang, PE Rudnicki, Z Yu, J Wang… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Designing a stable solid–electrolyte interphase on a Li anode is imperative to developing
reliable Li metal batteries. Herein, we report a suspension electrolyte design that modifies …

Growing single-crystalline seeds on lithiophobic substrates to enable fast-charging lithium-metal batteries

Z Wu, C Wang, Z Hui, H Liu, S Wang, S Yu, X Xing… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Controlling the nucleation and growth of lithium metal is essential for realizing fast-charging
batteries. Here we report the growth of single-crystalline seeds that results in the deposition …

Optimize lithium deposition at low temperature by weakly solvating power solvent

T Ma, Y Ni, Q Wang, W Zhang, S Jin… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For lithium (Li) metal batteries, the decrease in operating temperature brings severe safety
issues by more disordered Li deposition. Here, we demonstrate that the solvating power of …

Strategies towards enabling lithium metal in batteries: interphases and electrodes

B Horstmann, J Shi, R Amine, M Werres, X He… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the continuous increase in capacity, lithium-ion intercalation batteries are
approaching their performance limits. As a result, research is intensifying on next-generation …

Ultrafast deposition of faceted lithium polyhedra by outpacing SEI formation

X Yuan, B Liu, M Mecklenburg, Y Li - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Electrodeposition of lithium (Li) metal is critical for high-energy batteries. However, the
simultaneous formation of a surface corrosion film termed the solid electrolyte interphase …

Revealing the Multifunctions of Li3N in the Suspension Electrolyte for Lithium Metal Batteries

MS Kim, Z Zhang, J Wang, ST Oyakhire, SC Kim, Z Yu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Inorganic-rich solid-electrolyte interphases (SEIs) on Li metal anodes improve the
electrochemical performance of Li metal batteries (LMBs). Therefore, a fundamental …

A highly stable lithium metal anode enabled by Ag nanoparticle–embedded nitrogen-doped carbon macroporous fibers

Y Fang, SL Zhang, ZP Wu, D Luan, XW Lou - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Lithium metal has been considered as an ideal anode candidate for future high energy
density lithium batteries. Herein, we develop a three-dimensional (3D) hybrid host consisting …

Controlling electrochemical growth of metallic zinc electrodes: Toward affordable rechargeable energy storage systems

J Zheng, LA Archer - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Scalable approaches for precisely manipulating the growth of crystals are of broad-based
science and technological interest. New research interests have reemerged in a subgroup of …