High critical currents for dendrite penetration and voiding in potassium metal anode solid-state batteries

Dominic Spencer Jolly; Johann Perera; Shengda D. Pu; Dominic L.R. Melvin; Paul Adamson; Peter G. Bruce

doi:10.1007/s10008-022-05225-8

High critical currents for dendrite penetration and voiding in potassium metal anode solid-state batteries

Dominic Spencer Jolly, Johann Perera, Shengda D. Pu, Dominic L.R. Melvin, Paul Adamson, Peter G. Bruce^*

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Potassium metal anode solid-state cells with a K-beta”-alumina ceramic electrolyte are found to have relatively high critical currents for dendrite penetration on charge of approximately 4.8 mA/cm², and voiding on discharge of approximately 2.0 mA/cm², at 20 °C under 2.5 MPa stack-pressure. These values are higher than generally reported in the literature under comparable conditions for Li and Na metal anode solid-state batteries. The higher values for potassium are attributed to its lower yield strength and its readiness to creep under relatively low stack-pressures. The high critical currents of potassium anode solid-state batteries help to confirm the importance of the metal anode mechanical properties in the mechanisms of dendrite penetration and voiding.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1961-1968
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry
Volume	26
Issue number	9
Early online date	30 Jun 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-022-05225-8
Publication status	Published - Sept 2022

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P.G.B. is indebted to the Faraday Institution All-Solid-State Batteries with Li and Na Anodes (FIRG007, FIRG008), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M009521/1) and The Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials for financial support (EP/R00661X/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/R010145/1).

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