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Figure 4. (A) Binding energies of a foreign Zn²⁺ with the surfaces of bare Zn, ZnO coating, and AZO coating. (B) Schematic illustrating the effect of AZO coating on Zn deposition process^[60]. (C) Binding energies between Zn atom and different facets of TiO₂ and Zn. (D) Schematic illustration of the Zn plating process on Zn foil (ZF), commercial TiO₂-coated ZF (ZF@C-TiO₂), and faceted TiO₂-coated ZF (ZF@F-TiO₂)^[61]. (E) Schematic diagram of the formation of an Ohmic contact interface and the anti-blocking layer^[62]. (F) The slice of the electron density difference map illustrating the unbalanced charge distribution^[68]. (G) Effect of different facets of TiN on the growth pattern of byproduct^[71]. (H) Cycling stability of AZIBs with 850 mAh at 0.2 C^[73]. (I) Self-assembly process of MXene layer on the Zn anode surface and the regulation of MXene layer on Zn deposition^[90]. (J) Schematic illustrating the lattice matching degree between Zn anode and MXene^[92]. Reproduced from Refs.^{[60,62,68,73,90]}, Ref.^[61], and Refs.^[71,92] with permission from Wiley-VCH, Springer Nature, and American Chemical Society, respectively.