title: Towards High-Safe Lithium Metal Anodes: Suppressing Lithium Dendrites via Tuning Surface Energy.
abstract: The formation of lithium dendrites induces the notorious safety issue and poor cycling life of energy storage devices, such as lithium-sulfur and lithium-air batteries. We propose a surface energy model to describe the complex interface between the lithium anode and electrolyte. A universal strategy of hindering formation of lithium dendrites via tuning surface energy of the relevant thin film growth is suggested. The merit of the novel motif lies not only fundamentally a perfect correlation between electrochemistry and thin film fields, but also significantly promotes larger-scale application of lithium-sulfur and lithium-air batteries, as well as other metal batteries (e.g., Zn, Na, K, Cu, Ag, and Sn).
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials Jilin University Changchun 130012 China.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials Jilin University Changchun 130012 China; Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science Bilbao 48011 Spain; CIC Energigune Parque Tecnológico de Álava Miñano 01510 Spain.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials Jilin University Changchun 130012 China.
authors.forename: Weitao
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials Jilin University Changchun 130012 China.
authors.forename: Xiaoqiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: CIC Energigune Parque Tecnológico de Álava Miñano 01510 Spain; Departamento de Química Inorgánica Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Bilbao 48080 Spain.
authors.forename: Teófilo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rojo
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: Li‐metal anodes; batteries; energy storage; lithium dendrites; surface energy