Battery Safety and Reliability: Strategies for Long-Term Performance
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 January 2026 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the energy revolution is advancing, safety and reliability issues around batteries, as core devices for energy storage and conversion, are becoming increasingly prominent. With the continuous expansion of application scenarios, battery systems face multiple challenges, such as thermal runaway risks, cycle life degradation, and extreme environmental adaptability. These issues are not only related to the performance of batteries themselves, but also directly influence the development of key technologies such as electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage.
This Special Issue is based on the actual needs of battery technology development and applications, focusing on safety and reliability, and exploring but not limited to the following topics:
- Safety Mechanisms: Thermal runaway mechanisms, interface reactions, and smart monitoring technology.
- Key Materials: High-stability electrolytes, high-temperature-resistant diaphragms, and smart material development.
- Reliability Improvements: Health diagnosis, lifetime prediction, and manufacturing process optimization.
- Test Methods: Multi-scale characterization, accelerated aging, and AI-assisted analysis.
- Engineering Applications: Thermal management, safety structure designs, and multi-level intelligent early-warning systems.
- Energy Storage System Integration: Optimization of Battery Management System (BMS) safety algorithms, reliability assessment, and operation maintenance management of grid-scale energy storage systems.
This Special Issue will bring together cutting-edge research from materials, batteries, to system-level studies, offering theoretical guidance and technical support for building safer and more reliable batteries and energy storage systems. We welcome innovative contributions from diverse disciplines.
Dr. Yao Lu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- battery safety
- thermal runaway
- smart monitoring
- machine learning
- reliability assessment
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