Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Interface chemistry of an amide electrolyte for highly reversible lithium metal batteries

  • Qidi Wang,
  • Zhenpeng Yao,
  • Chenglong Zhao,
  • Tomas Verhallen,
  • Daniel P. Tabor,
  • Ming Liu,
  • Frans Ooms,
  • Feiyu Kang,
  • Alán Aspuru-Guzik,
  • Yong-Sheng Hu,
  • Marnix Wagemaker,
  • Baohua Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17976-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Interface chemistry is essential for highly reversible lithium-metal batteries. Here the authors investigate amide-based electrolyte that lead to desirable interface species, resulting in dense Li-metal plating and top-down Li-metal stripping, responsible for the highly reversible cycling.