Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Nanodiamonds suppress the growth of lithium dendrites

  • Xin-Bing Cheng,
  • Meng-Qiang Zhao,
  • Chi Chen,
  • Amanda Pentecost,
  • Kathleen Maleski,
  • Tyler Mathis,
  • Xue-Qiang Zhang,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Jianjun Jiang,
  • Yury Gogotsi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00519-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Lithium metal is an ideal anode material for rechargeable batteries but suffer from the growth of lithium dendrites and low Coulombic efficiency. Here the authors show that nanodiamonds serve as an electrolyte additive to co-deposit with lithium metal and suppress the formation of dendrites.