Advanced Energy Storage Materials: Preparation, Characterization and Applications (3rd Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 14
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Interests: energy materials and devices; corrosion and protection; surface treatment
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Interests: functional polymer composites; solid composite electrolytes; solid-state batteries; flexible energy storage devices; intelligent electronics; alkali metal-ion battery electrode
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the worldwide energy demand is expected to increase rapidly, improved technologies for sustainably producing, converting, and storing energy must be developed. Electrochemical energy storage (EES) systems with high efficiency, low cost, application flexibility, safety, and accessibility are the focus of intensive research and development efforts. Materials play a key role in efficient, clean, and versatile energy use and are crucial for exploiting renewable energy. Among various EES technologies, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have attracted plenty of interest in the past decades due to their high energy density, long cycle life, low self-discharge, and no memory effect when as power sources. Meanwhile, sodium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, metal–air batteries, and reversible solid oxide cells (rSOCs) have also received intensive attention from research and development and toward industrialization. The development of high-performance EES never ceases. Materials with high performance, stability, and low cost are critical for building up a synergetic effect for realizing a sustainable future.
The aim of this Special Issue entitled “Advanced Energy Storage Materials: Preparation, Characterization, and Applications” is to present recent advancements in various aspects related to materials and processes contributing to the creation of sustainable energy storage systems and environmental solutions, particularly applicable to clean energy developments. These include, but are not limited to:
- Development of advanced materials for high-performance energy storage devices, including lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, lithium–sulfur batteries, aqueous rechargeable batteries, and reversible solid oxide cells;
- Design of next-generation energy conversion and storage devices (flexible/transparent/micro batteries, etc.);
- Development of innovative high energy density batteries for grid connection of renewable sources and green transport;
- Mathematical modeling, including computational fluid dynamics of batteries and related topics.
We invite you to submit full research papers, communications, and review papers for this Special Issue.
Dr. Junwei Wu
Dr. Chen Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lithium-ion batteries
- sodium/potassium-ion batteries
- lithium–sulfur batteries
- metal–air batteries
- solid state batteries
- supercapacitors
- solid oxide cells
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