Boosting High-Voltage Practical Lithium Metal Batteries with Tailored Additives

Jinhai You; Qiong Wang; Runhong Wei; Li Deng; Yiyang Hu; Li Niu; Jingkai Wang; Xiaomei Zheng; Junwei Li; Yao Zhou; Jun-Tao Li

doi:10.1007/s40820-024-01479-1

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 257(2024)

Boosting High-Voltage Practical Lithium Metal Batteries with Tailored Additives

Jinhai You1...3,†, Qiong Wang4,6,†, Runhong Wei3,†, Li Deng4, Yiyang Hu1, Li Niu3, Jingkai Wang2, Xiaomei Zheng2,*, Junwei Li5,**, Yao Zhou1,*** and Jun-Tao Li1,**** |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹College of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China

²Magnetism Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, College of Materials and Chemistry, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, People’s Republic of China

³Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

⁴State Key Lab of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China

⁵Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

⁶College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, 730070 Gansu, People’s Republic of China

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Jinhai You, Qiong Wang, Runhong Wei, Li Deng, Yiyang Hu, Li Niu, Jingkai Wang, Xiaomei Zheng, Junwei Li, Yao Zhou, Jun-Tao Li. Boosting High-Voltage Practical Lithium Metal Batteries with Tailored Additives[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 257

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Received: May. 3, 2024

Accepted: Jul. 6, 2024

Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

The Author Email: Zheng Xiaomei (zheng_xiaomei@cjlu.edu.cn), Li Junwei (junwei.li@kuleuven.be), Zhou Yao (zhouy@xmu.edu.cn), Li Jun-Tao (jtli@xmu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1007/s40820-024-01479-1

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