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Inside Cover: Lithiophilic Sites in Doped Graphene Guide Uniform Lithium Nucleation for Dendrite‐Free Lithium Metal Anodes (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 27/2017)
Author(s) -
Zhang Rui,
Chen XiaoRu,
Chen Xiang,
Cheng XinBing,
Zhang XueQiang,
Yan Chong,
Zhang Qiang
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201704344
Subject(s) - nucleation , anode , materials science , graphene , dendrite (mathematics) , lithium (medication) , lithium metal , metal , electrochemistry , nanotechnology , electrode , chemical engineering , chemistry , metallurgy , medicine , geometry , mathematics , organic chemistry , engineering , endocrinology
Lithium‐metal anodes are the most promising electrodes for next‐generation high‐energy‐density batteries. In their Communication on page 7764 ff., Q. Zhang and co‐workers employed a nitrogen‐doped graphene matrix (lotus leaves) with lithiophilic nucleation sites (sitting frogs) to guide Li (tadpoles) nucleation on an anode surface. The result is a uniform distribution of Li on the anode surface. These dendrite‐free lithium‐metal anodes exhibit an impressive electrochemical performance.