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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Electrochemistry
  • Energy Storage

Background:

  • Solid-state sodium batteries (SSSBs) offer safety and cost benefits for large-scale energy storage.
  • Advances in solid-state electrolytes show high ionic conductivity, but practical cell performance remains limited.
  • Bulk ion transport alone does not dictate the behavior of functional SSSBs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Analyze key challenges in SSSBs from an interface-centered perspective.
  • Focus on dominant interfacial failure mechanisms and their sodium origins.
  • Provide a unified mechanistic framework for interfacial processes.

Main Methods:

  • Adopt an issue-driven approach to analyze interfacial failures.
  • Discuss chemical, electrochemical, mechanical, and dendrite-related interfacial issues.
  • Link interfacial chemistry, defect physics, and mechanical properties.

Main Results:

  • Interfacial processes like instability, blocking, degradation, and dendrite penetration are coupled.
  • These processes collectively control ion transport, critical current density, and cell stability.
  • High bulk ionic conductivity does not guarantee robust full-cell performance.

Conclusions:

  • Interface engineering is crucial for overcoming SSSB limitations.
  • Rethink conductivity as the sole performance metric.
  • Develop rational design principles for next-generation SSSBs based on interfacial understanding.