Boron-doped three-dimensional MXene host for durable lithium-metal anode

Lithium metal has been widely studied as one of the most promising anode materials for realizing the next-generation high-energy-density rechargeable batteries.However,its practical use in rechargeable batteries has been hindered by hazardous dendrite growth and huge volume variations during Li plating/stripping.Herein,we reported a borondoped three-dimensional(3D)layered MXene(Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x))as the host of Li metal anode.The material was synthesized via a facile one-pot hydrothermal process.With uniform B-doping,the prepared 3D multilayered MXene sheets provided more sites for nucleation of Li metal,so that the deposited Li metal anode showed favorable cycling stability and a high Coulombic efficiency.With the use of the same host material,a hybrid lithium-metal battery with 3D Li anode coupling with LiFePO4 cathode showed long cycle life and favorable electrochemical stability.This work shed lights on reasonable structural and compositional design of host materials that enables high-performance Li-metal anode toward practical realization of highenergy rechargeable batteries。