Development of Sustainable Battery Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3212
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Li-ion; cathode materials; structural caracterisations; operando; oxides
Interests: batteries; electrochemical storage; lithium-ion; sodium-ion; alternative chemistries; solid electrolyte; cathode and anode materials; process; battery design
Interests: batteries; electrochemical storage; lithium-ion; sodium-ion; magnesium-ion; modelling; material synthesis; nanomaterials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the fast development of electric mobility and the huge increase in lithium-ion battery production volumes, there is a significant challenge relative to the introduction of sustainable batteries.
In that scope, key issues are concerning lowering the impact of the transition metals of the current LiB positive electrode or other critical raw materials, improving the efficiency and lowering the environmental impact of manufacturing processes, innovating with eco-design of the battery cells and packs and ensuring an efficient recycling of the new technologies but also introducing new battery chemistries non relying on lithium like Na-Ion, K-Ion, other M-Ion, Redox-Flow Batteries....
To go more in details, this Special Issue will focus on the specific points listed below:
- Reducing the cobalt content of the current major cathode material of LiB (NMC),
- Proposing competing low cost alternative cathode materials to the conventional lamellar oxides,
- More globally, reducing the dependency of LiB to critical raw materials,
- Introducing or developing efficient and low environmental impact synthesis processes of active materials and manufacturing processes of cells and batteries,
- Proposing Sustainable Alternative Battery technologies,
- Innovative battery recycling processes,
- Life Cycle Analysis of Sustainable Batteries
This Special Issue will cover all the battery value chain from the raw materials, precursors, active materials, electrolytes, separators, current collectors, cells and battery packs.
Articles discussing investigations and developments including modeling and advanced characterization related to all these points are welcome for this feature.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Jean François Colin
Dr. Sebastien Patoux
Dr. Sebastien Martinet
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Li-ion
- post Li-ion
- sustainability
- eco-design
- materials
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