Advance in Energy Conversion and Storage: Material, Design and Application
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E:Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 14297
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metal-ion/air batteries; advanced electrolytes; ion intercalation chemistry
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Interests: metal air batteries; thermal electrochemical cells; photovoltaic electrochemical cells
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy issue has long been a concern for the modern society. For energy storage market, Li-ion batteries has achieved significant success and thus dominate the market, however, a series of issues like limited lithium resources restricted its further development. Thus, several emerging battery technics are attracting more and more research and industrial interests, some of which are expected to become the next generation energy storage devices, including other metal-based ion batteries (such as non-aqueous Na/K-ion batteries and aqueous Zn/Al ion batteries), metal-sulfur batteries and redox flow batteries. They have achieved tremendous success in laboratory scale and some prototypes has even been commercialized over the past 5 years. Moreover, surprising development has been achieved in the energy conversion aspect by great efforts. Various kinds of fuel cells achieved powerful energy output with higher and higher energy efficiencies; thermoelectric generator systems show a blueprint of waste heat utilization; CO2 reduction cells are promising to curb the carbon emissions and give value-added products back. Although these technologies are under rapid development, there still exists big challenges to make these efforts into practical applications. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on (1) energy conversion discipline, including fuel cells, CO2 reduction cells and other energy generators; and (2) energy storage aspect, including ion batteries, supercapacitors and redox flow batteries.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Dr. WenDing Pan
Dr. Rui Cheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ion batteries
- flow batteries
- fuel cells
- CO2 reduction and utilization
- other energy conversion and storage devices
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