Materials Development and Optimization for Sodium/Potassium-Ion Batteries
A special issue of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105). This special issue belongs to the section "Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 330
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sodium/potassium-ion battery
Interests: sodium-ion battery; all solid state battery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the continuous promotion of global carbon neutrality, there is an urgent demand to develop advanced electrochemical energy storage (EES) technologies to meet the market demands of EES systems. Over the past three decades, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have dominated the market of EES systems. However, the contradiction between the exponential growth in the demand for LIBs and the limited and geographical concentration of key elements required for LIBs has raised concerns about the supply of LIBs. There is urgency to develop inexpensive sodium/potassium-ion batteries to promote the realization of global carbon neutrality. Innovations in materials, especially in electrode materials, binders, solid-state electrolytes, separators, etc., are one of the key factors in incubating the next generation of sodium/potassium-ion batteries. To achieve this goal, three steps need to be implemented: firstly, developing low-cost, scalable strategies to synthesize materials with unique structures; secondly, targeted regulation of the intrinsic structure of materials to optimize their electrochemical performance; thirdly, developing advanced characterization techniques to reveal the energy storage nature and degradation mechanism of materials.
In this Special Issue, we are looking for contributions, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Rational synthesis of materials for sodium/potassium-ion batteries;
- Electrode materials with excellent electrochemical performance;
- Novel binders for sodium/potassium-ion batteries;
- Development and modification of separators;
- Construction and optimization of solid-state electrolytes;
- Advanced nanostructures for sodium/potassium-ion batteries;
- In situ characterization techniques;
- Interface behavior in sodium/potassium-ion batteries;
- New concept electrochemical energy storage devices.
Dr. Daping Qiu
Dr. Hailong Qiu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sodium-ion battery
- potassium-ion battery
- anode material
- cathode material
- solid-state electrolyte
- separator
- binder
- in situ characterization
- interface
- mechanism
- nanostructure
- material synthesis
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Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Sulfur modified multi-cavity carbon nanospheres anode enabling fast-charging sodium-ion batteries
Authors: Cuihua Kang, Yuehui Wang, Daping Qiu*
Affiliation: China Three Gorges University
Title: Pore structure regulation of hierarchical porous carbon derived from pitch for high-performance supercapacitors
Authors: Lun Zheng*, Daping Qiu
Affiliation: China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Shanghai Research Institute
Title: Photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction stimulated by ordered MoS2 nano-arrays
Authors: Yuanyuan Tian*, Chengnan Qi
Affiliation: Shanxi College of Technology
