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Ultra-stable K metal anode enabled by oxygen-rich carbon cloth

Yangyang Xie1, Junxian Hu1, Zexun Han1, Hailin Fan2, Jingyu Xu1, Yanqing Lai1, Zhian Zhang1()
School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd., Ningde 352100, China
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The K metal batteries are emerged as promising alternatives beyond commercialized Li-ion batteries. However, suppressing uncontrolled dendrite is crucial to the accomplishment of K metal batteries. Herein, an oxygen-rich treated carbon cloth (TCC) has been designed as the K plating host to guide K homogeneous nucleation and suppress the dendrite growth. Both density function theory calculations and experimental results demonstrate that abundant oxygen functional groups as K-philic sites on TCC can guide K nucleation and deposition homogeneously. As a result, the TCC electrode exhibits an ultra-long-life over 800 cycles at high current density of 3.0 mA·cm-2 for 3.0 mA·h·cm-2. Furthermore, the symmetrical cells can run stably for 2,000 h with low over-potential less than 20 mV at 1.0 mA·cm-2 for 1.0 mA·h·cm-2. Even at a higher current of 5.0 mA·cm-2, the TCC electrode can still stably cycle for 1,400 h.

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K metal anodedendriteoxygen-rich treated carbon clothK-philic sitesultra-long-life

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Nano Research
Volume 13 Issue 11,
November 2020
Pages 3137-3141
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-2984-5
Cite this article:
Xie Y, Hu J, Han Z, et al. Ultra-stable K metal anode enabled by oxygen-rich carbon cloth. Nano Research, 2020, 13(11): 3137-3141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2984-5
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CarbonDensity functional theoryElectrodesIon batteriesLithiumOxygen
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