Key Technology and Development of Sodium Ion Battery
A special issue of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105). This special issue belongs to the section "Battery Modelling, Simulation, Management and Application".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 April 2023) | Viewed by 426
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The initial research of sodium-ion batteries started in 1970s. The working principle of sodium-ion batteries is similar to lithium-ion batteries. Sodium ions are extraction/insertion between positive and negative electrode materials to realize the charging and discharging process. Nowadays, sodium-ion batteries compared to lithium-ion batteries have many advantages, such as low cost, high safety and stability, fast charging rate and excellent low-temperature characteristics.
Sodium-ion batteries could become the mainstream for large-scale energy storage, such as grid energy storage, 5G base stations, short-range electric vehicles. Nowadays, sodium-ion batteries have also obtained a large number of demonstrations in the field of large-scale energy storage, and their commercialization is also gradually promoted. However, at the current stage, sodium-ion batteries still need further development with competitive and industrialized manufacturing technologies and stable products in terms of cathode/anode materials and electrolytes, and so on. To realize practical sodium-ion batteries, the fabrication routes, characterization methods, analysis strategies and theoretical computational techniques are needed to obtain desirable structures and components, reveal the performance enhancement/failure principles, and unfold energy storage mechanisms of electrode materials.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Electrical, thermal, and electrochemical modeling;
- Battery management system;
- Lifetime estimation of battery cells;
- Electrolyte additive;
- Sodium dendrites;
- Positive and negative materials;
- Separator;
- New materials and advanced manufacturing methods in battery cell production;
- Cell size optimization for advanced Na-ion batteries;
- Battery cell and pack design;
- Advanced electrolytes for Na-based batteries;
- Advances in battery cell manufacturing technologies;
- Life cycle assessment;
- Solid state battery.
Dr. Lishuang Fan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sodium ion battery
- lifetime estimation
- pack design
- cathode
- anode
- solid state battery
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