New Materials for Li-Ion Batteries
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2018) | Viewed by 21971
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multiscale modeling of soft-condensed matter systems; materials for energy applications
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Interests: multiscale modeling of soft-condensed matter systems; materials for energy applications
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) based battery technologies represent an omnipresent aspect of energy storage in modern life. Increasing demands for capacity, high power density, increased safety and cycling life for use in automotive applications and various portable devices drive ongoing needs for advances in the design of novel battery materials and systems. Multiple avenues are of interest for improving overall performance and safety of these systems, including investigation of high-voltage cathodes, high-capacity anodes, electrolytes with improved transport and electrochemical stability, design of solid electrolyte interphases (SEI) with desired mechanical and transport characteristics, minimization of self-discharge and electrode degradation, etc. These effects, in turn, may be accomplished either via development of entirely new or modified materials, or through development of new formulations which utilize existing compounds in novel ways to enable better electrochemical performance.
This Special Issue invites manuscripts that discuss experiemental or modeling investigations of new chemical or physical formulations for cathodes, anodes, electrolytes, or solid electrolyte interphases in Li-ion based batteries. These investigations may involve new chemical compounds that show promise as major phases for Li-ion based systems (e.g., high-voltage spinels, LiPON electrolytes, “water-in-salt” electrolytes, etc.), or new methods of processing current compounds to achieve novel structures (e.g., composite graphite/Si anodes, nanostructured composite cathodes), which increase the overall capability of these compounds above their currently utilized configurations.
A potential list of topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas of exploration:
- Solid electrolytes (polymer electrolytes, gel electrolytes, solid state ion conductors, etc.)
- New or novel electrode materials or modifications of currently utilized electrode materials
- Utilization of existing electrode materials in composite and/or nanostructured compound electrode construction
- Electrolyte formulations and additive compounds designed to increase performance of electrode passivation layers and SEIs.
Prof. Dr. Dmitry A. Bedrov
Dr. Justin B. Hooper
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- High voltage cathode
- High capacitance anode
- Composite electrodes
- Interdigitated microbattery architectures
- Solid electrolyte
- Polymer electrolyte
- Gel electrolyte
- Solid electrolyte interphase
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