Dr. Lai Chao and his team from School of Chemistry & Materials Science has made a series of important achievements. As corresponding author, Dr. Lai has published papers in Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Advanced Science.
Lithium metal is among the most promising anode materials for high-energy batteries due to its high theoretical capacity and lowest electrochemical potential. However, uncontrolled lithium decomposition and dendrite formation have hindered its practical applications. This team proposes a brand new protection system. Referee of JACS evaluates this work as “a very interesting and impressive technique” and “commercially available, environmentally begign and just needs small amount.” The first author of this paper is JSNU postgraduate student Dai Hongliu.
In addition, Dr. Lai’s research group cooperated with Professor Liang Jiajie and Professor Chen Yongsheng’s group from Nankai University, designing a hierarchical 3D porous architecture with a binary network of continuous silver nanowires assembled on an interconnected 3D grapheme skeleton as the host for Li-metal composite anodes, which offers a significant boost in both charging/discharging rates and long-term cycling performance for Li-metal batteries. The first author of this paper is JSNU postgraduate student Xue Pan.
