Zn-based Battery Technologies for Energy Storage Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The current Special Issue is intended to gather the recent development of electrochemical energy storage devices based on zinc. Since the first zinc-based battery, voltaic pile, was invented about two centuries ago by Volta, it has been a progressive evolvement from a fundamental and technological point of view. Furthermore, the advancement in material science and the learning of concepts and developments from other related fields has then promoted a significant progress in the re-thinking, engineering, design and further development of historic and new concepts of zinc-based batteries. This novel re-thinking is currently pushing zinc-based batteries for consideration as an excellent alternative for medical, mobile, automotive, and large-scale energy storage applications.

Applications in conventional batteries range from ultra-thin, flexible, and printable. Nowadays, fuel cell and flow battery systems demonstrate the versatility of zinc as an essential component of novel electrochemical energy storage devices, based on its intrinsic advantages, such as its natural abundance, high safety, low cost and toxicity, environmental friendliness, less rigorous and sensitive manufacturing conditions, and high volumetric capacity.

However, zinc is also the most highly consumed material after aluminium, steel, and copper. In parallel to the scientific and technical developments, this fact promotes the need to investigate the probability of recycling Zn-based wasted batteries. New battery production using recycled materials like zinc will enable us to preserve primary sources and to promote a circular economy. Thus, research on this topic, seeking to complete and understand as a whole the potential of energy storage devices based on zinc, is welcome.

Therefore, despite current developments, this Special Issue will gather papers dealing with (but not limited to) new discoveries and further improvements in the field of electrode materials, electrolyte, inks formulations, cell design and engineering, recycling and LCA, of Zn-based electrochemical energy storage systems, from low capacity range to large-scale.

Dr. Luis C. Colmenares R.
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Garche
Guest Editors

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• Zinc batteries
• Thin/flexible/printed battery
• Hybrid battery
• Zinc-ion battery
• Alkaline battery
• Aqueous/polymeric electrolyte
• Cell design
• Battery recycling
• Cathode materials
• Energy storage and conversion