Li metal has been regarded as the holy grail for the next-generation Li-ion battery.Li dendrites issues,however,impede its practical application.In general,prolonging the sand time of Li nucleation and regulating homo...Li metal has been regarded as the holy grail for the next-generation Li-ion battery.Li dendrites issues,however,impede its practical application.In general,prolonging the sand time of Li nucleation and regulating homogeneous Li^(+) flux are effective approaches to suppress the dendrites formation and growth.Regarding this view,a functional polypropylene (PP) separator is developed to regulate ion transportation via a newly designed Li-based metal-organic framework (Li-MOF) coating.The Li-MOF crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P212121 and features a double-walled three-dimensional (3D) structure with 1D channels.The well-defined intrinsic nanochannels of Li-MOF and the steric-hinerance effect both restrict free migration of anions,contributing to a high Li^(+) transference number of 0.65,which improve the Sand time of Li nucleation.Meanwhile,the Li-MOF coating with uniform porous structure promotes homogeneous Li^(+) flux at the surface of Li metal.Furthermore,the Li-MOF coating layer helps to build solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer that comprises of inorganic Li F and Li_(3)N,which further prohibits the dendrites growth.Consequently,a highly stable Li plating/stripping cycling for over 1000 h is achieved.The functional separator also enables high-performance full lithium metal cells,the high-rate and long-stable cycling performance of Li Ni_(0.8)Mn_(0.1)Co_(0.1)(NMC811)-Li and Li Co O_(2)(LCO)-Li cells further demonstrate the feasibility of this concept.展开更多
基金the financial support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21971113, 22175094, 51902165)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20200800)+1 种基金Independent Innovation of Agricultural Science and Technology in Jiangsu Province (No. CX(21)3163)Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (No. 20KJA150001)。
文摘Li metal has been regarded as the holy grail for the next-generation Li-ion battery.Li dendrites issues,however,impede its practical application.In general,prolonging the sand time of Li nucleation and regulating homogeneous Li^(+) flux are effective approaches to suppress the dendrites formation and growth.Regarding this view,a functional polypropylene (PP) separator is developed to regulate ion transportation via a newly designed Li-based metal-organic framework (Li-MOF) coating.The Li-MOF crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P212121 and features a double-walled three-dimensional (3D) structure with 1D channels.The well-defined intrinsic nanochannels of Li-MOF and the steric-hinerance effect both restrict free migration of anions,contributing to a high Li^(+) transference number of 0.65,which improve the Sand time of Li nucleation.Meanwhile,the Li-MOF coating with uniform porous structure promotes homogeneous Li^(+) flux at the surface of Li metal.Furthermore,the Li-MOF coating layer helps to build solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer that comprises of inorganic Li F and Li_(3)N,which further prohibits the dendrites growth.Consequently,a highly stable Li plating/stripping cycling for over 1000 h is achieved.The functional separator also enables high-performance full lithium metal cells,the high-rate and long-stable cycling performance of Li Ni_(0.8)Mn_(0.1)Co_(0.1)(NMC811)-Li and Li Co O_(2)(LCO)-Li cells further demonstrate the feasibility of this concept.
