The inability to guide the nucleation locations of electrochemically deposited Li has long been considered the main factor limiting the utilization of high‐energy‐density Li‐metal batteries. In this study, an electrical conductivity gradient interfacial host comprising 1D high conductivity copper nanowires and nanocellulose insulating layers is used in stable Li‐metal anodes. The conductivity gradient system guides the nucleation sites of Li‐metal to be directed during electrochemical plating. Additionally, the controlled parameter of the intermediate layer affects the highly stable Li‐metal plating. The electrochemical behavior is confirmed through experiments associated with the COMSOL Multiphysics simulation data. The distributed Li‐ion reaction flux resulting from the controlled electrical conductivity enables stable cycling for more than 250 cycles at 1 mA cm−2. The gradient system effectively suppresses dendrite growth even at a high current density of 5 mA cm−2 and ensures Li plating and stripping with ultra‐long‐term stability. To demonstrate the high‐energy‐density full‐cell application of the developed anode, it is paired with the LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 cathode. The cells demonstrate a high capacity retention of 90% with an extremely high Coulombic efficiency of 99.8% over 100 cycles. These results shed light on the formidable challenges involved in exploiting the engineering aspects of high‐energy‐density Li‐metal batteries.
Here, a novel fabrication technique for integrated organic devices on substrates with complex structure is presented. For this work, free-standing polymeric masks with stencil-patterns are fabricated using an ultra-violet (UV) curable polyurethaneacrylate (PUA) mixture, and used as shadow masks for thermal evaporation. High fl exibility and adhesive properties of the freestanding PUA masks ensure conformal contact with various materials such as glass, silicon (Si), and polymer, and thus can also be utilized as patterning masks for solution-based deposition methods, such as spin-coating and dropcasting. Based on this technique, a number of integrated organic transistors are fabricated simultaneously on a cylindrical glass bottle with high curvature, as well as on a fl at silicon wafer. It is anticipated that these results will be applied to the development of various integrated organic devices on complexstructured substrates, which can lead to further applications.
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