Lithium is considered to be the"holy grail"for the application of energy storage due to its highest the-oretical capacity and lowest anode potential.However,one of the grand difficulties in the development of lithium-based batteries is the lithium dendrite growth that leads to capacity fading and electrode degradation over long-term cycling.Compared with conventional electrolyte modifications,artificial solid electrolyte interfaces(SEI)synthesis and framework designing approaches,tuning surface morphol-ogy of lithium anode is the direct route to induce homogeneous Li ion deposition.Due to the high chem-ical activity of lithium metal,however,controllable growth of lithium micro/nanostructures by traditionally chemical approaches is still a big challenge.Herein,we have developed a facile compression route to fabricate lithium anode with abundant stepped lithium structures.The electrochemical results demonstrate that the dendritic growth issue is effectively suppressed by orderly arranged stepped lithium structures.After 90 cycles,a high discharge capacity of 954 mAh g-1 is achieved,which is 2.7 times that of the uncompressed lithium anode(342 mAh g-1).First-principles calculations reveal that the orderly arranged stepped lithium structures are lithiophilic active sites to adsorb Li ion,which con-tributes to homogeneous deposition of Li ion on lithium anode,eventually solving the lithium dendrite issue.This work paves a new road to suppress dendritic growth,which will provide some new ideas to design long recycling sodium,potassium and zinc,and other metal anode batteries.

Yong Zhang;Shu-Qin Song;Yong Gao;Tian-Fu Liu;Hong Zhao

Department of Materials Science and Engineering,Dalian Jiaotong University,Dalian 116028,Liaoning,China;The Key Lab of Low-carbon Chemistry&Energy Conservation of Guangdong Province,PCFM Lab,School of Materials Science and Engineering,Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510275,Guangdong,China;Institute of Science and Technology for New Energy,Xi'an Technological University,Xi'an 710021,Shaanxi,China;Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Dalian 116023,Liaoning,China

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[1]Yong Zhang;Shu-Qin Song;Yong Gao;Tian-Fu Liu;Hong Zhao-.Lithium film with abundant stepped structures:A promising route for homogeneous Li ion deposition to conquer lithium dendrite issue and its action mechanism)[J].能源化学,2022(09):166-175

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