Conductivity and lithiophilicity gradients guide lithium deposition to mitigate short circuits

Jun Pu; Jiachen Li; Kai Zhang; Tao Zhang; Chaowei Li; Haixia Ma; Jia Zhu; Paul V. Braun; Jun Lu; Huigang Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09932-1

Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Conductivity and lithiophilicity gradients guide lithium deposition to mitigate short circuits

Jun Pu,
Jiachen Li,
Kai Zhang,
Tao Zhang,
Chaowei Li,
Haixia Ma,
Jia Zhu,
Paul V. Braun,
Jun Lu,
Huigang Zhang

Affiliations

Jun Pu: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, and Institute of Materials Engineering, Nanjing University
Jiachen Li: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, and Institute of Materials Engineering, Nanjing University
Kai Zhang: Key Lab of Nanodevices and Applications, Suzhou Institute of Nanotech and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tao Zhang: Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Chaowei Li: Key Lab of Nanodevices and Applications, Suzhou Institute of Nanotech and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Haixia Ma: School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University
Jia Zhu: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, and Institute of Materials Engineering, Nanjing University
Paul V. Braun: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jun Lu: Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Huigang Zhang: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, and Institute of Materials Engineering, Nanjing University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09932-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here the authors report a deposition-regulating strategy to form conductivity and lithiophilicity gradients which serve to guide the preferential lithium growth away from the interface between anode and separator and mitigate the dendrite-induced short circuits.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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