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Infiltrating lithium into carbon cloth decorated with zinc oxide arrays for dendrite-free lithium metal anode

Xianshu Wang1,2,§, Zhenghui Pan2,§, Yang Wu3, Xiaoyu Ding2, Xujia Hong1, Guoguang Xu2, Meinan Liu2, Yuegang Zhang2,3,4( ), Weishan Li1,4( )
School of Chemistry and Environment,South China Normal University,Guangzhou,510006,China;
i-lab,Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Suzhou,215123,China;
Department of Physics,Tsinghua University,Beijing,100084,China;
Engineering Research Center of MTEES (Ministry of Education),Research Center of BMET (Guangdong Province), and Key Laboratory of ETESPG (GHEI), South China Normal University,Guangzhou,510006,China;

§ Xianshu Wang and Zhenghui Pan contributed equally to this work.

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Lithium metal anode for batteries has attracted extensive attentions, but its application is restricted by the hazardous dendritic Li growth and dead Li formation. To address these issues, a novel Li anode is developed by infiltrating molten Li metal into conductive carbon cloth decorated with zinc oxide arrays. In carbonate-based electrolyte, the symmetric cell shows no short circuit over 1, 500 h at 1 mAdcm-2, and stable voltage profiles at 3 mAdcm-2 for ~ 300 h cycling. A low overpotential of ~ 243 mV over 350 cycles at a high current density of 10 mAdcm-2 is achieved, compared to the seriously fluctuated voltage and fast short circuit in the cell using bare Li metal. Meanwhile, the asymmetric cell withstands 1, 000 cycles at 10 C (1 C = 167 mAhdg-1) compared to the 210 cycles for the cell using bare Li anode. The excellent performance is attributed to the well-regulated Li plating/stripping driven from the formation of LiZn alloy on the wavy carbon fibers, resulting in the suppression of dendrite growth and pulverization of the Li electrode during cycling.

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lithium metal anodeslithium plating/strippingdendrite-freethermal infiltrationcarbon clothzinc oxide nanowire arrays

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Nano Research
Volume 12 Issue 3,
March 2019
Pages 525-529
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-018-2245-z
Cite this article:
Wang X, Pan Z, Wu Y, et al. Infiltrating lithium into carbon cloth decorated with zinc oxide arrays for dendrite-free lithium metal anode. Nano Research, 2019, 12(3): 525-529. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-018-2245-z
Topics:
AnodesBinary alloysElectrolytesIILithium batteriesTin oxidesVI semiconductorsZinc alloys

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Received: 15 September 2018
Revised: 27 October 2018
Accepted: 12 November 2018
Published: 23 November 2018
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