High-Safety Lithium-Ion Batteries: Basics, Progress and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

The ongoing “endurance mileage” anxiety has stimulated the energy-density increase of lithium-ion batteries, and great efforts have been made in understanding the inherent electrochemistry, and in developing advanced material systems. However, the energy density increase of LIBs inevitably accompanies the rising safety concerns. Thermal safety characteristics and thermal runaway mechanism investigations of LIBs are continuing to attract widespread interest. Deciphering the thermal failure route, behavior and mechanism of high energy density is of great importance in building next-generation batteries with enhanced safety.

In this Special Issue, we are looking for contributions related to:

• Understanding heat generation characteristics during charge/discharge under isothermal or adiabatic situations.
• Thermal runaway route and mechanism of high-energy-density batteries.
• Simulation and modeling of self-heating of batteries during abuse conditions.
• Material-level investigation of the exothermic reaction during the thermal runaway chain reactions.
• Strategies to alleviate or terminate the self-heating of batteries during elevated temperatures.
• New battery architectures or advanced electrodes or electrolyte materials to improve the thermal safety of batteries.

Dr. Lang Huang
Guest Editor

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• thermal safety of LIBs
• heat generation
• thermal runaway route
• self-heating
• thermal failure mechanism
• safe electrolyte materials