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Construction of single-ion conducting polymeric protective layer for high-charging rate Li-metal batteries

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A single-ion conducting polymetric artificial solid electrolyte interphase (SICP-ASEI) is rationally designed to improve the cycling performance of Li-metal batteries (LMBs) under high charging rate. The SICP with high cationic transport number (0.84) is obtained by polymerization of LiSTFSI and polyethylene (ethylene glycol) methacrylate following by chemical crosslinking. The LMBs with SICP-ASEI can achieve improved energy efficiency and prolonged cell lifetime, including (i) high cycling stability (over 1000 h cycling) and limited polarization voltage (< 95 mV at ± 1 mA cm−2) on symmetrical cells and (ii) high-capacity retention of 84.3% after 200 cycles at 1 C and over 102 mAh g−1 at high charging rate of 2 C on full cell coupled with high-mass-loading cathode.

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This work was financially supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (buctrc202222), the Natural Science Foundation of China (21421001), the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin, China (18JCZDJC31400), and the MOE Innovation Team (IRT13022).

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  1. State Key Lab of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China

    Xinyuan Shan, Sijin Jin & Peng-Fei Cao

  2. Institute of New Energy Material Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China

    Huabin Yang

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Sheng Zhao

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Shan, X., Jin, S., Zhao, S. et al. Construction of single-ion conducting polymeric protective layer for high-charging rate Li-metal batteries. MRS Communications 13, 848–853 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-023-00392-9

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