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The devil is in the electrons

Nature Energy volume 4, pages 174–175 (2019)Cite this article

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The development of solid-state lithium batteries is largely hindered by the undesired lithium dendrite propagation during battery operations. High electronic conductivity of solid electrolytes is now revealed to be the main culprit.

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Fig. 1: Mechanisms of Li propagation inside SSEs.

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