Communication—Porous Current Collector with Randomly Distributed Pores for Li Metal Negative Electrode in All-Solid-State Batteries

The increase in mechanical stress at the interface of the Li metal and solid electrolyte induces dendritic Li growth in all-solid-state Li batteries. We demonstrated the increasing stress in Li metal was significantly reduced by porous current collectors (PCCs). Here, we demonstrate the PCC with 3- dimensional pores prepared by sintering a mixture of micrometer-sized Ni spherical particles and polymethyl methacrylate spheres as a template of pores. The low-cost sintering method realized not only reduction of the preparation cost of PCCs, but high internal short circuit resistance comparable to the expensive PCCs with regularly arranged through-holes using electroforming methods.