Lithium Metal Anode Materials Design: Interphase and Host

Hansen Wang; Yayuan Liu; Yuzhang Li; Yi Cui

doi:10.1007/s41918-019-00054-2

Electrochemical Energy Reviews ›› 2019, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (4) : 509 -517. DOI: 10.1007/s41918-019-00054-2

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Lithium Metal Anode Materials Design: Interphase and Host

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¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA

²Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, 94025, Menlo Park, CA, USA

^d yicui@stanford.edu

Hansen Wang

Hansen Wang obtained his BS in Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China, in 2016. Currently, he works as a PhD student in Professor Yi Cui’s group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. His research mainly focuses on next-generation high energy density, fast charging lithium ion/metal batteries. He is broadly interested in materials design as well as fundamental studies in the energy storage field.

Yayuan Liu

Dr. Yayuan Liu obtained her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2019 and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research is at the interface of electrochemistry, nanomaterials and materials characterizations, and she is broadly interested in addressing issues facing water–energy–environment nexus.

Yuzhang Li

Yuzhang Li received his BS in Chemical Engineering (2013) at the University of California, Berkeley. He is now a PhD student working with Professor Yi Cui at Stanford University researching on the design and characterization of next-generation materials for energy storage.

Yi Cui

Yi Cui is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received BS in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and PhD in 2002 at Harvard University. After that, he went on to work as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2005, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. In 2010, he was promoted with tenure. His current research is on nanomaterials for energy storage, photovoltaic, topological insulators, biology and environment. He is a Fellow of Materials Research Society, a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of Electrochemical Society. He is an associate editor of Nano Letters. He is a co-director of the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium and a co-director of Battery 500 Consortium. His selected awards include: Blavatnik National Laureate (2017), MRS Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2015), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2010), KAUST Investigator Award (2008), ONR Young Investigator Award (2008), Technology Review World Top Young Innovator Award (2004).

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Li metal is the ultimate anode choice due to its highest theoretical capacity and lowest electrode potential, but it is far from practical applications with its poor cycle lifetime. Recent research progresses show that materials designs of interphase and host structures for Li metal are two effective ways addressing the key issues of Li metal anodes. Despite the exciting improvement on Li metal cycling capability, problems still exist with these methodologies, such as the deficient long-time cycling stability of interphase materials and the accelerated Li corrosion for high surface area three-dimensional composite Li anodes. As a result, Coulombic efficiency of Li metal is still not sufficient for full-cell cycling. In the near future, an interphase protected three-dimensional composite Li metal anode, combined with high performance novel electrolytes might be the ultimate solution. Besides, nanoscale characterization technologies are also vital for guiding future Li metal anode designs.

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Hansen Wang, Yayuan Liu, Yuzhang Li, Yi Cui. Lithium Metal Anode Materials Design: Interphase and Host. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2019, 2(4): 509-517 DOI:10.1007/s41918-019-00054-2