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Toward safe and energy-dense lithium metal batteries utilizing monofluorinated alkane electrolytes

Yingqi Cao, Yaru Wang, Ke Sun, Junlin Huang*, Rui Tian, Mingqiang Zhu, Chong Yang*, Zhipeng Yu, Hong Yin*

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjsc.2026.101029

ABSTRACT

To circumvent these vulnerabilities and translate lab-scale breakthroughs into commercial viability, future electrolyte engineering must evolve toward multiscale integration. Potential mitigation directions include blending these low-viscosity solvents with highly stable, flame-retardant co-solvents, or encapsulating them within specifically designed organic/inorganic polymer matrices to suppress the intense thermal motion of molecules. Alternatively, researchers could reverse-engineer non-fluorinated solvents with deliberate steric constraints to simulate the weak coordination environment while bypassing fluorine-related environmental regulations. Ultimately, by decoupling the fundamental basicity and steric hindrance parameters, this weak-solvation paradigm provides a universal theoretical foundation for overcoming interfacial kinetic barriers, paving a viable path for the development of safe, all-climate electrochemical energy storage systems.



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