Advances in graphene-based hosts for lithium metal anodes

Z Du, W Guan, C He, Y Liu, W Ai - Energy Storage Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Creating host materials is viewed as a crucial strategy to tackle challenges like unregulated
dendritic growth, inconsistent solid electrolyte interphase, and significant volume changes in …

Enhancing Reversibility and Stability of Mg Metal Anodes: High‐Exposure (002) Facets and Nanosheet Arrays for Superior Mg Plating/Stripping

J Bi, Z Zhou, J Li, B Li, X Sun, Y Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Magnesium metal batteries (MMBs), recognized as promising contenders for post‐lithium
battery technologies, face challenges such as uneven magnesium (Mg) plating and stripping …

Group transfer radical polymerization for the preparation of carbon-chain poly (α-olefins)

X Wang, S Wang, S Song, Y Chen, H Sun, C Zhu - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Radical polymerization is a powerful technique for producing a variety of polymeric
materials. However, the chain transfer reaction impedes the formation of polymers from …

An integrated dual-gradient host facilitates oriented bottom-up lithium growth in lithium metal anodes

Z Du, X Chen, Y Zhao, Y Liu, W Ai - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Integrated gradient hosts, composed of poorly conductive frameworks on copper current
collectors, have been extensively explored for the development of Li metal anodes (LMAs) …

Crown ethers decorated metal–organic framework for selective lithium ion sieving

X Zhang, X Xing, X Zhao, J Yang, M Liu, B Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2025 - Elsevier
Selective adsorption of lithium ion from aqueous media is one of important routes to solve
the scarcity and high cost problems of this valuable resource. Crown ethers (CE) as classical …

Developing a lithiophilic, solvent-phobic dual-functionality film for dendrite-free Li metal anodes

X Yang, B Chen, J Li, J Wang, Z Du, W Ai - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Li metal anodes (LMAs) are promising candidate for advanced batteries that encounters
significant challenges, including electrolyte corrosion and uneven deposition. These issues …

Deformation-adaptive N, P-doped porous carbon nanofibers as a protective interlayer for stable Li metal anodes

Z Du, J Bi, Z Zhou, Y Liu, L Xing, W Ai - Acta Materialia, 2025 - Elsevier
Stress concentration acts as a key catalyst for Li dendrite growth, compromising the
interfacial structure of Li metal batteries, which accelerates capacity degradation and …

Ion selective rapid transport enabled by functionalized CeO2/LiX zeolite modified separator in high performance lithium sulfur batteries

C Hu, Y Zhang, J Li, H Cui, K Liu, Y Liu, Y Yang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2025 - Elsevier
With regard to the issues in the application of lithium sulfur batteries (LSBs), for instance, the
low-rate performance due to the difficulty in Li+/S n 2-diffusion, and the poor cycling stability …

Janus‐Architectured Lithium Replenishment Separators Boosting Longevity of Anode‐Free Lithium Metal Batteries

G Lin, T Meng, Y Peng, P Li, X Hu - Small Methods, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Addressing the issue of inactive dead lithium deposition on the anode side remains a
significant challenge for anode‐free lithium metal batteries. While lithium compensation …

Janus-structured graphene scaffold for bottom-up lithium deposition: A progressive gradient approach

Z Du, X Chen, Y Zhao, Y Liu, W Ai - Applied Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Graphene-based materials have been explored as hosts for Li metal anodes, but their high
interfacial activity and short diffusion distances frequently result in dendrite formation on the …