Developing high safety Li-metal anodes for future high-energy Li-metal batteries: strategies and perspectives

Battery systems. However, the notorious Li-dendrite growth problem results in serious safety concerns for any energy storage application. Through a recent combination of interface-based science, nanotechnology-based solutions and characterization methods, the LMA is now primed for a technological boom. In this review, the recent emerging strategies and perspectives on LMAs are summarized, following which the current huge evolution in interfacial chemistry regulation, optimizing electrolyte components, designing a rational 'host' for lithium metal, optimizing "solid-state electrolytes" and other emerging strategies for developing high-safety LMAs is highlighted. Furthermore, several state-of-the-art in…

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  U.S. Department of Energy

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  University of Chicago

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  Henan Normal University
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  National Natural Science Foundation of China

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  China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

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  University of Waterloo

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  Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project

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  Office of Science

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  Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

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  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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  Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo
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  Office of Energy Efficiency
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  Argonne National Laboratory

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