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- Aluminum is a promising anode material for rechargeable batteries due to its low cost and high capacity, but faces challenges like dendrite formation and low efficiency.
- The study introduces an ultrathin aluminophilic interface layer (AIL) that improves aluminum plating and stripping, achieving stable performance for over 2000 hours at a high capacity.
- This method demonstrates a strikingly high average Coulombic efficiency of 99.9% and allows for record-setting plating at 50 mAh cm, paving the way for improved aluminum-based batteries.
Article Abstract
Aluminum (Al) metal is an attractive anode material for next-generation rechargeable batteries, because of its low cost and high capacities. However, it brings some fundamental issues such as dendrites, low Coulombic efficiency (CE), and low utilization. Here, we propose a strategy for constructing an ultrathin aluminophilic interface layer (AIL) to regulate the Al nucleation and growth behaviors, which enables highly reversible and dendrite-free Al plating/stripping under high areal capacity. Metallic Al can maintain stable plating/stripping on the Pt-AIL@Ti for over 2000 h at 10 mAh cm with an average CE of 99.9%. The Pt-AIL also enables reversible Al plating/stripping at a record high areal capacity of 50 mAh cm, which is 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than the previous studies. This work provides a valuable direction for further construction of high-performance rechargeable Al metal batteries.
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