Intrinsic Fire Safety of Lithium-Based Batteries

Dear Colleagues,

Lithium-based batteries have come to be widely used in portable electronic products, electric vehicles, and electrochemical energy storage power stations, and have greatly altered the structure of energy use and storage worldwide. Improving energy density is a permanent goal for the development of lithium battery technology, but it also brings more serious fire safety issues, something that has been a serious obstacle to the sustainable development of lithium-based battery technology. The thermal instability of the internal materials used in current commercial lithium-based batteries is the root cause of fire safety hazards; however, complex self-accelerating thermal runaway reactions between the internal materials inside batteries is not yet sufficiently clear, and developing materials with high thermal stability or flame retardant effects is the most effective way to fundamentally improve the intrinsic safety of lithium batteries.

This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest and most advanced progress and breakthroughs in research on the intrinsic fire safety of lithium batteries, providing in-depth analysis of fire incubation mechanisms in lithium-based batteries from the perspective of intrinsic materials, as well as comprehensive understanding of the principles, strategies, technologies, mechanisms, and challenges behind the design of lithium-based battery materials with a view to improving their intrinsic fire safety.

Both research articles and reviews are welcome, and research areas may include, but are not limited to:

• Thermal stability analysis of lithium-based battery materials;
• Thermal runaway characteristics of lithium-based batteries;
• Flame retardant electrolytes for lithium-based batteries;
• Solid-state electrolytes for lithium-based batteries;
• Safer separators for lithium-based batteries;
• Additives for improving the fire safety of lithium-based batteries;
• Strategies for improving the thermal stability of the cathodes/anodes of lithium-based batteries;
• The fire safety of solid-state batteries.

Dr. Lihua Jiang
Dr. Wenxin Mei
Dr. Yuan Cheng
Dr. Yurui Deng
Guest Editors

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• lithium battery fire safety
• thermal runaway in batteries
• flame retardant electrolytes for lithium-based batteries
• solid-state electrolyte