New research, published in the journal Energy Storage Materials, details a GPE synthesizing process and reveals that this could be a promising approach for engineering stable and conductive Li/polymer electrolyte interfaces for dendrite-free-lithium metal batteries.
Study: An Efficient Gel Polymer Electrolyte for Dendrite-Free and Long Cycle Life Lithium Metal Batteries. Image Credit: Sergii Chernov/Shutterstock.com
Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) are lithium batteries with an anode from lithium metal. They are hindered by a range of issues, including nonuniform dendritic electrodeposition when used with liquid lithium electrolytes. This results in safety hazards, poor life cycles, and insufficient coulombic efficiencies, limiting the application use of lithium metal batteries.
Now, a team of researchers at the University of Illinois, Chicago, have developed and synthesized…