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Highly Potassiophilic Graphdiyne Skeletons Decorated with Cu Quantum Dots Enable Dendrite‐Free Potassium‐Metal Anodes

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Employing an Al foil current collector at the potassium anode side is an ideal choice to entail low‐cost and high‐energy potassium‐metal batteries (PMBs). Nevertheless, the poor affinity between the potassium… Click to show full abstract

Employing an Al foil current collector at the potassium anode side is an ideal choice to entail low‐cost and high‐energy potassium‐metal batteries (PMBs). Nevertheless, the poor affinity between the potassium and the planar Al can cause uneven K plating/stripping and, hence, an undermined anode performance, which remains a significant challenge to be addressed. Herein, a nitrogen‐doped carbon@graphdiyne (NC@GDY)‐modified Al current collector affording potassiophilic properties is proposed, which simultaneously suppresses the dendrite growth and prolongs the lifespan of K anodes. The thin and light modification layer (7 µm thick, with a mass loading of 500 µg cm−2) is fabricated by directly growing GDY nanosheets interspersed with Cu quantum dots on NC polyhedron templates. As a result, symmetric cell tests reveal that the K@NC@GDY‐Al electrode exhibits an unprecedented cycle life of over 2400 h at a 40% depth of discharge. Even at an 80% depth of discharge, the cell can still sustain for 850 h. When paired with a potassium Prussian blue cathode, the thus‐assembled full cell demonstrates comparable capacity and rate performance with state‐of‐the‐art PMBs.

Keywords: potassium metal; quantum dots; highly potassiophilic; potassium; graphdiyne

Journal Title: Advanced Materials
Year Published: 2022

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