Materials and Devices of Batteries for Energy Storage

Dear Colleagues,

With rapid social development and increasingly distinct energy/environment-related issues, novel energy storage technologies, especially for batteries, have become research hotspots nowadays. In the past decades, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have attracted extensive attention owing to their ability to efficiently store electrochemical energy. Although LIBs power our present, the increasing rarity of Li resources may severely restrict their large-scale application. In recent decades, numerous scientists and researchers from around the world have devoted energy to promoting the performance of LIBs or seeking novel efficient energy storage devices to complement or replace the traditional LIBs via material design and device optimization to obtain the ideal devices that have higher energy/power density, longer cycling lifespan, intrinsic safety, lower cost or are more environmentally benign.

Thus, it is of urgent significance to purposefully explore and develop alternative battery materials and devices to satisfy the needs of social development. The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers on batteries to provide researchers with an in-depth understanding of various devices, fundamental theory, optimizing and synthetic strategies for the materials and devices, as well as advanced analysis and characterization technologies for the materials and devices, etc. With dedicated and sustainable efforts worldwide, high-performance batteries can be expected to have large-scale applications in multiple fields in the near future.

The subjects covered include, but are not limited to:

Metal ion battery (Li, Na, K, Mg, Ca, Zn, Al, etc.);

Metal-S battery;

Metal-CO₂ battery;

Multivalent-ion battery;

Dual-ion battery;

Bio-battery;

Aqueous battery;

Flow battery;

Solid state battery;

Flexible/wearable energy storage devices;

Fuel cell;

Hybrid supercapacitor.

Dr. Pan Qingguang
Guest Editor

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• metal ion battery (Li, Na, K, Mg, Ca, Zn, Al, etc.)
• metal-S battery
• metal-CO₂ battery
• multivalent-ion battery
• dual-ion battery
• bio-battery
• aqueous battery
• flow battery
• solid state battery
• flexible/wearable energy storage devices
• fuel cell
• hybrid supercapacitor