Citation: Wei-Wei JIANG, Jun-Jie LI, Cheng-Zhou YE, Jing ZHANG, Long HUANG, Xi WU, Zhen-Min HU, Wen-Ji LI, Yu DAI, Fu-Gen SUN. Lightweight 3D porous Al foams for the hosts of high-performance Li metal anodes[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2023, 39(2): 291-299. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2022.266 shu

Lightweight 3D porous Al foams for the hosts of high-performance Li metal anodes

School of Physics and Materials Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China

Corresponding author: Fu-Gen SUN, sunfugen@ncu.edu.cn
Received Date: 27 July 2022
Revised Date: 4 November 2022

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Lightweight, 3D porous, and lithiophilic Al foams has been used as the hosts for Li metal anodes, and compounded with metallic Li by a facile mechanical extrusion method to obtain the Al@Li composite anodes. The high lithiophilicity of Al foams could provide abundant and uniform active sites for Li nucleation, thus inducing the fast nucleation and uniform electro-deposition of Li metal into the Al foams. Moreover, the 3D porous structures of Al foams could accommodate the huge volume change of Li metal anodes during the charge/discharge process and reduce the local current density, thus effectively inhibiting the growth of Li dendrites. Therefore, compared with the bare Li metal anodes, the obtained Al@Li composite anodes exhibited higher cycling stability of Li plating/stripping with a lower overpotential of ca. 5 mV at 1 mA·cm^-2 after 250 cycles in their symmetric cells. Furthermore, half-cell configurations with the Al@Li composite anodes and LiFePO₄ cathodes also presented significantly enhanced cycling capacity and rate performance.
- Li secondary batteries,
- Li metal anodes,
- Al foams,
- Li dendrites
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