Metallic lithium batteries offer far more performance than lithium-ion cells, and are so dangerous that no one uses them. One of the problems is dendrite growth – long thin crystals of lithium grow from the electrodes – that can short the cell and lead to self-destruction. Now the University of California San Diego has found ...

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