Vacuum Dealloyed Brass as Li-Metal Battery Current Collector: Effect of Zinc and Porosity
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| author | Woods, Eric V Chen, Xinren Wei, Shaolou Zhang, Yuwei da Silva, Alisson Kwiatkowski El-Zoka, Ayman A Prabhakar, J Manoj Schwarz, Tim M Kang, Yongqiang Aota, Leonardo S Singh, Mahander P Angenendt, Katja Ozgun, Ozge Jovivcevic-Klug, Matic Jovivcevic-Klug, Patricia Bross, Christian Liu, Jian de Kloe, Rene Dehm, Gerhard Zaefferer, Stefan Joshi, Yug Gault, Baptiste |
| author_facet | Woods, Eric V Chen, Xinren Wei, Shaolou Zhang, Yuwei da Silva, Alisson Kwiatkowski El-Zoka, Ayman A Prabhakar, J Manoj Schwarz, Tim M Kang, Yongqiang Aota, Leonardo S Singh, Mahander P Angenendt, Katja Ozgun, Ozge Jovivcevic-Klug, Matic Jovivcevic-Klug, Patricia Bross, Christian Liu, Jian de Kloe, Rene Dehm, Gerhard Zaefferer, Stefan Joshi, Yug Gault, Baptiste |
| contents | "Anode-free" lithium-metal batteries promise significantly higher energy density than conventional graphite-based lithium-ion batteries; however, lithium dendrite growth can lead to internal short circuits with associated safety risks. While porous current collectors can suppress dendrite growth, optimal porosity and composition remain unknown. Here, we show that the temperature during vapor phase dealloying (VPD) of alpha-brass (Cu63Zn37) controls the surface Zn concentration, decreasing from 8 percent to below 1 percent from 500 to 800 degrees C. The surface composition is controlled by the temperature-dependent diffusion. A battery cell maintains greater than 90 percent Coulombic efficiency (CE) over 100 cycles when the Zn content is the lowest, whereas the higher-Zn samples degraded to approximately 70 percent CE. The difference in surface composition has hence dramatic effects on battery performance, and our results demonstrate how precise compositional control enables stable lithium-metal battery operation, establishing about 1 atomic percent surface Zn as optimal for preventing capacity fading and uniform lithium plating, while establishing predictive relationships between processing temperature and surface composition. This work provides design rules for multifunctional current collectors and demonstrates scalable VPD production for next-generation batteries. |
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| spellingShingle | Vacuum Dealloyed Brass as Li-Metal Battery Current Collector: Effect of Zinc and Porosity Woods, Eric V Chen, Xinren Wei, Shaolou Zhang, Yuwei da Silva, Alisson Kwiatkowski El-Zoka, Ayman A Prabhakar, J Manoj Schwarz, Tim M Kang, Yongqiang Aota, Leonardo S Singh, Mahander P Angenendt, Katja Ozgun, Ozge Jovivcevic-Klug, Matic Jovivcevic-Klug, Patricia Bross, Christian Liu, Jian de Kloe, Rene Dehm, Gerhard Zaefferer, Stefan Joshi, Yug Gault, Baptiste Materials Science "Anode-free" lithium-metal batteries promise significantly higher energy density than conventional graphite-based lithium-ion batteries; however, lithium dendrite growth can lead to internal short circuits with associated safety risks. While porous current collectors can suppress dendrite growth, optimal porosity and composition remain unknown. Here, we show that the temperature during vapor phase dealloying (VPD) of alpha-brass (Cu63Zn37) controls the surface Zn concentration, decreasing from 8 percent to below 1 percent from 500 to 800 degrees C. The surface composition is controlled by the temperature-dependent diffusion. A battery cell maintains greater than 90 percent Coulombic efficiency (CE) over 100 cycles when the Zn content is the lowest, whereas the higher-Zn samples degraded to approximately 70 percent CE. The difference in surface composition has hence dramatic effects on battery performance, and our results demonstrate how precise compositional control enables stable lithium-metal battery operation, establishing about 1 atomic percent surface Zn as optimal for preventing capacity fading and uniform lithium plating, while establishing predictive relationships between processing temperature and surface composition. This work provides design rules for multifunctional current collectors and demonstrates scalable VPD production for next-generation batteries. |
| title | Vacuum Dealloyed Brass as Li-Metal Battery Current Collector: Effect of Zinc and Porosity |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06015 |