Application of Polymers and Their Composites in Energy Storage
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 July 2024 | Viewed by 240
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon-based electrode materials (e.g., grapheme, MOFs and MXene); nanostructured electrode materials; Li-ion batteries; Li metal batteries; Na-ion batteries
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: energy storage materials; nanostructured electrode materials; Li-ion batteries; Na-ion batteries; supercapacitors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) composed of metal ions and organic ligands have been widely applied in lithium and sodium storage systems owing to their unique hollow nanostructure and high surface area. Thus, MOFs/polymer-based materials have been widely and successfully employed in energy storage applications. However, MOF-derived transition metal oxides (TMOs) still suffer from several barriers, including structural degradation due to great changes in their volume, huge overpotential during cycling caused by lower electronic conductivity, and sluggish kinetics upon Li/Na-ion insertion/extraction. MXenes, a group of 2D transition metal carbides/carbonitrides, have attracted significant attention due to their excellent metallic conductivity; they possess a high specific surface area, mechanical strength, and conductivity, an adjustable composition and abundant surface functional groups. The combination of polymers with carbon, graphene, MOFs, or MXenes can lead to hybrid materials with enhanced performance for energy storage applications.
This Special Issue aims to particularly focus on carbon-based materials (MOFs, COF, grapheme and MXene, among others), energy storage materials, porous materials and composite nanomaterials, and the submission of manuscripts attending to these fields is thus most welcome.
Prof. Dr. Hui Qiao
Dr. Lei Luo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer-based energy storage materials
- MOFs/polymer-based materials
- polymer-based rechargeable batteries
- carbon-based electrode materials
- grapheme
- MXene
- Li/Na-ion batteries
