Designing Chemically Replaced Interfacial Layer via Unveiling the Influence of Zn Crystal Facets for Practical Zn‐Metal Anodes (Adv. Mater. 1/2024)
Jung Been Park, Changhoon Choi, Sang Won Jung, Byeong Chan Min, Jong Hyun Park, Dong‐Wan Kim
Abstract
Aqueous Zinc-Metal Batteries Chemically replaced interfacial layer design, via unveiling the influence of zinc (Zn) crystal facets for aqueous Zn-metal batteries, is introduced by Dong-Wan Kim and co-workers in article number 2308684. Owing to the unique crystallographic (high zincophilicity and surface energy), morphological (abundant active sites and uniform current/Zn2+ flux), and compositional (suppressed side-reactions of metallic Sn) merits of the chemically replaced layer, uniform dendrite-free Zn(002)-preferred Zn deposition is guided and unfavorable side-reactions are suppressed. A superior performance even under practical operating conditions is thereby achieved.