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Emerging Materials and Technologies for Post-Lithium-Ion Batteries—2nd Edition
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Emerging Materials and Technologies for Post-Lithium-Ion Batteries—2nd Edition

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: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 2075

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Dr. Hao Liu

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Centre for Clean Energy Technology, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: electrochemistry and energy storage; nanostructured materials and their applications in the fields of rechargeable lithium batteries, supercapacitors, gas sensors and fuel cells
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Dear Colleagues,

Currently, the rechargeable lithium-ion battery is generally considered to be the best battery for EVs, as a compromise between the advantages and drawbacks among various traditional battery candidates (e.g., fuel cells, solar cells, lead-acid, Ni-Cd and Ni-MH batteries). However, the application of lithium-ion battery is limited owing to some practical challenges such as high cost (e.g., lithium and cobalt raw resources), low energy/power density for high rate application, and intrinsic safety risk using organic electrolyte. Therefore, it is crucial to develop novel materials and technologies beyond the lithium-ion batteries with low price, high energy/power density, and reliable safety.

In this Special Issue, potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Sodium ion batteries;
  • Lithium sulfur batteries;
  • Metal air batteries;
  • Solid state batteries;
  • Supercapacitors;
  • Fuel cells.

Dr. Hao Liu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sodium ion batteries
  • lithium sulfur batteries
  • metal air batteries
  • solid state batteries
  • supercapacitors

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Study of the Suitability of Corncob Biochar as Electrocatalyst for Zn–Air Batteries
by Nikolaos Soursos, Theodoros Kottis, Vasiliki Premeti, John Zafeiropoulos, Katerina Govatsi, Lamprini Sygellou, John Vakros, Ioannis D. Manariotis, Dionissios Mantzavinos and Panagiotis Lianos
Batteries 2024, 10(6), 209; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries10060209 - 16 Jun 2024
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There has been a recent increasing interest in Zn–air batteries as an alternative to Li-ion batteries. Zn–air batteries possess some significant advantages; however, there are still problems to solve, especially related to the tuning of the properties of the air–cathode which should carry [...] Read more.
There has been a recent increasing interest in Zn–air batteries as an alternative to Li-ion batteries. Zn–air batteries possess some significant advantages; however, there are still problems to solve, especially related to the tuning of the properties of the air–cathode which should carry an inexpensive but efficient bifunctional oxygen reduction (ORR) and oxygen evolution (OER) reaction electrocatalyst. Biochar can be an alternative, since it is a material of low cost, it exhibits electric conductivity, and it can be used as support for transition metal ions. Although there is a significant number of publications on biochars, there is a lack of data about biochar from raw biomass rich in hemicellulose, and biochar with a small number of heteroatoms, in order to report the pristine activity of the carbon phase. In this work, activated biochar has been made by using corncobs. The biomass was first dried and minced into small pieces and pyrolyzed. Then, it was mixed with KOH and pyrolyzed for a second time. The final product was characterized by various techniques and its electroactivity as a cathode was determined. Physicochemical characterization revealed that the biochar had a hierarchical pore structure, moderate surface area of 92 m2 g−1, carbon phase with a relatively low sp2/sp3 ratio close to one, and a limited amount of N and S, but a high number of oxygen groups. The graphitization was not complete while the biochar had an ordered structure and contained significant O species. This biochar was used as an electrocatalyst for ORR and OER in Zn–air batteries where it demonstrated a satisfactory performance. More specifically, it reached an open-circuit voltage of about 1.4 V, which was stable over a period of several hours, with a short-circuit current density of 142 mA cm−2 and a maximum power density of 55 mW cm−2. Charge–discharge cycling of the battery was achieved between 1.2 and 2.1 V for a constant current of 10 mA. These data show that corncob biochar demonstrated good performance as an electrocatalyst in Zn–air batteries, despite its low specific surface and low sp2/sp3 ratio, owing to its rich oxygen sites, thus showing that electrocatalysis is a complex phenomenon and can be served by biochars of various origins. Full article
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DFT Simulations Investigating the Trapping of Sulfides by 1T-LixMoS2 and 1T-LixMoS2/Graphene Hybrid Cathodes in Li-S Batteries
by Shumaila Babar, Elaheh Hojaji, Qiong Cai and Constantina Lekakou
Batteries 2024, 10(4), 124; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries10040124 - 5 Apr 2024
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The aim of this study is to investigate new materials that can be employed as cathode hosts in Li-S batteries, which would be able to overcome the effect of the shuttling of soluble polysulfides and maximize the battery capacity and energy density. Density [...] Read more.
The aim of this study is to investigate new materials that can be employed as cathode hosts in Li-S batteries, which would be able to overcome the effect of the shuttling of soluble polysulfides and maximize the battery capacity and energy density. Density functional theory (DFT) simulations are used to determine the adsorption energy of lithium sulfides in two types of cathode hosts: lithiated 1T-MoS2 (1T-LixMoS2) and hybrid 1T-LixMoS2/graphene. Initial simulations of lithiated 1T-MoS2 structures led to the selection of an optimized 1T-Li0.75MoS2 structure, which was utilized for the formation of an optimized 1T-Li0.75MoS2 bilayer and a hybrid 1T-Li0.75MoS2/graphene bilayer structure. It was found that all sulfides exhibited super-high adsorption energies in the interlayer inside the 1T-Li0.75MoS2 bilayer and very good adsorption energy values in the interlayer inside the hybrid 1T-Li0.75MoS2/graphene bilayer. The placement of sulfides outside each type of bilayer, over the 1T-Li0.75MoS2 surface, yielded good adsorption energies in the range of −2 to −3.8 eV, which are higher than those over a 1T-MoS2 substrate. Full article
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