Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Electrical resistance of the current collector controls lithium morphology

  • Solomon T. Oyakhire,
  • Wenbo Zhang,
  • Andrew Shin,
  • Rong Xu,
  • David T. Boyle,
  • Zhiao Yu,
  • Yusheng Ye,
  • Yufei Yang,
  • James A. Raiford,
  • William Huang,
  • Joel R. Schneider,
  • Yi Cui,
  • Stacey F. Bent

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31507-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The deployment of lithium metal batteries is forestalled by poor control over the deposition morphology of lithium. Here, the authors discover that high electrical resistance can be leveraged for controlling lithium morphology and enabling high-performing lithium metal batteries.