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Lithium‑ion dynamic interface engineering of nano‑charged composite polymer electrolytes for solid‑state lithium‑metal batteries

Solid-state lithium-metal batteries (SSLMBs) are the holy-grail of next-generation energy storage, but their commercialization has been stymied by dendrite growth, fragile interfaces, and the ...
Nature

Dynamic structure and functionalization of polymer interfaces

The segmental mobility of polymers at an interface in contact with air, a liquid or a solid is considerably different from that in the internal bulk phase. This review summarizes recent studies ...
AZOM

Boosting Zinc-Ion Batteries with Carbon Dots

A research team led by Prof. Weishen Yang and Prof. Kaiyue Zhu from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences utilized trace amounts of carbon dots to develop ...
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Lithium‑Ion Dynamic Interface Engineering of Nano‑Charged Composite Polymer Electrolytes for Solid‑State Lithium‑Metal Batteries (IMAGE)

The surface charge characteristics of halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) are manipulated to engineer the Li +-dynamic interface (Li +-DI) in composite polymer electrolytes. Surface charge characteristics of ...