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Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) hold great application potential for solid-state lithium metal battery because of the excellent interfacial contact and processibility, but being hampered by the poor room-temperature conductivity (~ 10−7 S·cm−1) and low lithium-ion transference number (
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