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  • Durable Integrated K‐Metal ...
    Zhao, Lu‐Kang; Gao, Xuan‐Wen; Mu, Jianjia; Luo, Wen‐Bin; Liu, Zhaomeng; Sun, Zhenhua; Gu, Qin‐Fen; Li, Feng

    Advanced functional materials, 10/2023, Volume: 33, Issue: 41
    Journal Article

    Abstract K‐metal batteries have become one of the promising candidates for the large‐scale energy storage owing to the virtually inexhaustible and widely potassium resources. The uneven K + deposition and dendrite growth on the anode causes the batteries prematurely failure to limit the further application. An integrated K‐metal anode is constructed by cold‐rolling K metal with a potassiphilic porous interconnected mediator. Based on the experimental results and theoretical calculations, it demonstrates that the potassiphilic porous interconnected mediator boosts the mass transportation of K‐metal anode by the K affinity enhancement, which decreases the concentration polarization and makes a dendrite‐free K‐metal anode interface. The interconnected porous structure mitigates the internal stress generated during repetitive deposition/stripping, enabling minimized the generation of electrode collapse. As a result, a durable K‐metal anode with excellent cycling ability of exceed 1, 000 h at 1 mA cm −2 /1 mAh cm −2 and lower polarization voltage in carbonate electrolyte is obtained. This proposed integrated anode with fast K + kinetics fabricated by a repeated cold rolling and folding process provides a new avenue for constructing a high‐performance dendrites‐free anode for K‐metal batteries.