Back Cover: Harnessing Ion‐Dipole Interactions for Water‐Lean Solvation Chemistry: Achieving High‐Stability Zn Anodes in Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries

In aqueous zinc-ion batteries , additive molecules with high permanent dipole moment can effectively substitute the coordination of H2O with charge carriers through relatively strong ion–dipole interactions, resulting in a water-lean environment of solvated Zn2+. Lone-pair electrons of oxygen and fluorinated features of the additive molecules also reinforce the interfacial affinity of metallic zinc, associated with the exclusion of neighboring water to facilitate reversible zinc planarized deposition. Details of this research are reported by Jianwei Li, Guoliang Chai et al. in their Research Article (e202407439).