Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Lithiophilic montmorillonite serves as lithium ion reservoir to facilitate uniform lithium deposition

  • Wei Chen,
  • Yin Hu,
  • Weiqiang Lv,
  • Tianyu Lei,
  • Xianfu Wang,
  • Zhenghan Li,
  • Miao Zhang,
  • Jianwen Huang,
  • Xinchuan Du,
  • Yichao Yan,
  • Weidong He,
  • Chen Liu,
  • Min Liao,
  • Wanli Zhang,
  • Jie Xiong,
  • Chenglin Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12952-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The address one of the major challenges facing the lithium metal anode, here the authors use lithiophilic montmorillonite as an additive to the ether-based electrolyte to regulate the lithium ion concentration on the anode surface, facilitating uniform lithium deposition.