An Amino Acid-Enabled Separator for Effective Stabilization of Li Anodes.

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States.

Published: March 2024

Fundamentally suppressing Li dendrite growth is known to be critical for realizing the potential high energy density for Li-metal batteries (LMBs). Inspired by the ionic transport function of proteins, we previously discovered that utilizing natural proteins was able to stabilize the Li anode but have not demonstrated how a specific amino acid of the protein enabled the function. In this study, we decorate the separator with Leucine () amino acid assisted by poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) for effectively stabilizing the Li-metal anode, so as to dramatically improve the cycling performance of LMBs. The decorated separator improves electrolyte wettability and effectively suppresses Li dendrite growth. As a result, the amino acid-enabled separator prolongs the cycle life of the symmetrical Li|Li cells, exhibits higher Coulombic efficiency in the Li|Cu cells, and improves the cycling performance in LMBs with the LiFePO cathode. This work is an initial study on applying a specific amino acid of proteins to enhance the performance of batteries, providing a new strategy on guiding Li deposition, and laying an important foundation for functional separator design of high-energy-density batteries.

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