{"external_id":{"pmid":["41025826"]},"oa_version":"Published Version","tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"quality_controlled":"1","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0935-9648"],"eissn":["1521-4095"]},"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","doi":"10.1002/adma.202510906","acknowledgement":"M.I. and S.H. acknowledge financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. Q.S. acknowledges financial support from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 101211154. This work was supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Grant No. 2021SGR01581), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 52125505 and 52475336), and the Joint Fund of Henan Province Science and Technology R&D Program (Grant No. 235200810097). Part of this research was carried out with support from the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), utilizing resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NFF).","title":"Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating","article_type":"original","date_published":"2025-09-30T00:00:00Z","ddc":["530"],"oa":1,"date_updated":"2025-10-20T10:46:10Z","citation":{"chicago":"Zeng, Guifang, Sharona Horta, Qing Sun, Malik Dilshad Khan, Maria Ibáñez, Yuhang Han, Shang Wang, et al. “Crystal Growth Engineering for Dendrite-Free Zinc Metal Plating.” <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906</a>.","apa":"Zeng, G., Horta, S., Sun, Q., Khan, M. D., Ibáñez, M., Han, Y., … Cabot, A. (2025). Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating. <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906</a>","ieee":"G. Zeng <i>et al.</i>, “Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating,” <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley, 2025.","mla":"Zeng, Guifang, et al. “Crystal Growth Engineering for Dendrite-Free Zinc Metal Plating.” <i>Advanced Materials</i>, e10906, Wiley, 2025, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906\">10.1002/adma.202510906</a>.","short":"G. Zeng, S. Horta, Q. Sun, M.D. Khan, M. Ibáñez, Y. Han, S. Wang, L. Li, L. Ci, Y. Tian, A. Cabot, Advanced Materials (2025).","ama":"Zeng G, Horta S, Sun Q, et al. Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating. <i>Advanced Materials</i>. 2025. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906\">10.1002/adma.202510906</a>","ista":"Zeng G, Horta S, Sun Q, Khan MD, Ibáñez M, Han Y, Wang S, Li L, Ci L, Tian Y, Cabot A. 2025. Crystal growth engineering for dendrite-free Zinc metal plating. Advanced Materials., e10906."},"scopus_import":"1","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"NanoFab"},{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"PlanS_conform":"1","pmid":1,"has_accepted_license":"1","month":"09","day":"30","publisher":"Wiley","type":"journal_article","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"_id":"20496","OA_type":"hybrid","publication_status":"epub_ahead","publication":"Advanced Materials","status":"public","article_number":"e10906","author":[{"last_name":"Zeng","full_name":"Zeng, Guifang","first_name":"Guifang"},{"first_name":"Sharona","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","last_name":"Horta"},{"last_name":"Sun","first_name":"Qing","full_name":"Sun, Qing"},{"last_name":"Khan","full_name":"Khan, Malik Dilshad","first_name":"Malik Dilshad"},{"last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria"},{"full_name":"Han, Yuhang","first_name":"Yuhang","last_name":"Han"},{"last_name":"Wang","first_name":"Shang","full_name":"Wang, Shang"},{"last_name":"Li","full_name":"Li, Longqiu","first_name":"Longqiu"},{"last_name":"Ci","full_name":"Ci, Lijie","first_name":"Lijie"},{"full_name":"Tian, Yanhong","first_name":"Yanhong","last_name":"Tian"},{"last_name":"Cabot","first_name":"Andreu","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu"}],"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202510906","open_access":"1"}],"date_created":"2025-10-19T22:01:32Z","year":"2025","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The practical implementation of aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) is limited by uncontrolled zinc (Zn) dendrite growth during anode plating, compromising both safety and cycle life. Typically, Zn plating proceeds via 2D growth along the six equivalent prismatic [1010] directions of the hexagonal close-packed (HCP) Zn lattice, forming hexagonal platelets that promote dendrite formation. Here, an effective electrolyte engineering strategy is presented using rare-earth ions to regulate Zn plating. Combined multiscale experimental analyses and computational modeling reveal that these ions preferentially adsorb onto the prismatic {1010} facets, suppressing lateral epitaxial growth of the basal (0002) planes. This redirects Zn plating toward an apparent screw dislocation-driven growth along the [0001] axis. The resulting growth pathway, together with randomly oriented Zn nucleation, yields dense, uniform, and dendrite-free Zn layers with markedly improved cycling stability and high depth-of-discharge operation, thereby challenging the prevailing assumption that dendrite suppression requires (0002)-oriented growth parallel to the substrate. This work provides new mechanistic insights into Zn plating dynamics and establishes a scalable strategy for stable, dendrite-free Zn anodes in next-generation AZIBs."}],"OA_place":"publisher"}