Battery Chemistry: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities, the Second Edition

Dear Colleagues,

In order to cope with the energy crisis and with environmental pollution, countries have accelerated the establishment of a new energy system, dominated by renewable energy sources such as wind, water, and solar power. The rechargeable battery will be a core piece of storage and supply energy equipment on account of its high efficiency in energy storage and conversion based on chemical reactions. At present, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) equipped with graphite electrodes have dominated the global energy storage market, but their practical energy density has reached theoretical limits and still cannot satisfy the future market demand. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop new rechargeable battery systems with higher energy densities. However, enabling the practical application of new battery systems calls for an improved understanding and utilization of the chemical reactions in batteries—for example, the effect of metal anode–electrolyte interface chemistry on the growth of dendrites in metal-based batteries, and the mechanism and kinetics of cathodic oxygen reduction/evolution reaction (ORR/OER) processes in the presence of catalysts in metal-oxygen batteries.

In this Special Issue, we wish to cover the most recent advances in battery chemistry for different rechargeable battery systems by hosting a mix of original research articles and reviews. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include (but are not restricted to) the following:

• Electrochemical reactions in rechargeable batteries;
• Surface/interface chemistry of metal-based rechargeable batteries;
• Electrocatalytic reactions in metal–sulfur batteries;
• Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)/oxygen evolution reaction (OER) processes in metal–oxygen batteries;
• Quantum chemistry methods in the study of rechargeable batteries;
• Materials chemistry (e.g., solid electrolytes) for advanced rechargeable batteries.

Dr. Liwen Tan
Dr. Jianjun Zhang
Guest Editors

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