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Designing Zinc Deposition Substrate with Fully Preferred Orientation to Elude the Interfacial Inhomogeneous Dendrite Growth

The development of zinc-ion batteries with high energy density remains a great challenge due to the uncontrollable dendrite growth on their zinc metal anodes. Film anodes plated on the substrate have attracted increasing attention to alleviate these dendrite issues. Herein, we first point out that b...

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Autores principales: Xie, Chunlin, Yang, Zefang, Zhang, Qi, Ji, Huimin, Li, Yihu, Wu, Tingqing, Li, Wenbin, Wu, Pengfei, Wang, Haiyan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AAAS 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9422332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36072269
http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/2022/9841343
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Sumario:The development of zinc-ion batteries with high energy density remains a great challenge due to the uncontrollable dendrite growth on their zinc metal anodes. Film anodes plated on the substrate have attracted increasing attention to alleviate these dendrite issues. Herein, we first point out that both the random crystal orientation and the low metal affinity of the substrate are important factors of zinc dendrite formation. Accordingly, the (1 0 1) fully preferred tin interface layer with high zinc affinity was fabricated by chemical tin plating on (1 0 0) oriented copper. This tin decorated copper substrate can realize high reversible zinc plating/stripping behavior, and full cell using this zinc plated substrate can be operated for more than 1000 cycles with high capacity retention (85.3%) and low electrochemical impedance. The proposed strategy can be also applied to lithium metal batteries, which demonstrates that the substrate orientation regulation and metal affinity design are the promising approaches to achieve dendrite-free metal anode and overcome the challenges of highly reactive metal anodes.