Deflecting Dendrites by Introducing Compressive Stress in Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ Using Ion Implantation (Small 12/2024)

Compressive stress is caused in Li 6.4 La 3 Zr 1.4 Ta 0.6 O 12 by implanting Ag ions into the near surface region.This compressive stress enables the deflection of mechanically induced cracks, created via nano-indentation as well as growing dendrites during galvanostatic cycling experiments.This demonstrates ion implantation as a viable technique to design "dendrite-free" solid-state electrolytes.More In article number 2307515, Daniel Rettenwander and co-workers.