Polymers for Electronic and Energy Storage Devices
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 2388
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable energy conversion and storage; wearable energy supply and electronics; flexible supercapacitors and batteries
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of advanced electronic devices and power systems, energy storage systems with high energy density and power density become particularly important. The energy storage systems that power electronic devices mainly include supercapacitors, rechargeable batteries, and fuel cells. In particular, emerging wearable electronics require flexible and stretchable energy storage devices. Polymers are widely used in flexible energy storage devices as polymer-based electrodes, solid-state electrolytes, separators, and conductive wires due to their outstanding mechanical strength, flexibility, durability, and low cost. In addition, the mechanical, electrical, and electrochemical properties of polymers can be functionally modified by suitable fillers to meet different needs.
The scope of this Special Issue, “Polymers for Electronic and Energy Storage Devices”, includes but is not limited to the following topics:
- Polymer-based electrodes, electrolytes, and membrane materials for supercapacitors, rechargeable batteries, and fuel cells;
- The characterization of energy storage devices (e.g., power density, energy density, and charge–discharge efficiency);
- Applications of conjugated conductive polymers in wearable electronics;
- High-ionic-conductivity solid-state electrolytes;
- Applications of computer-aided calculation such as density functional theory, machine learning, and materials genome in rational design and performance prediction of polymer-based energy storage devices;
Nano-sciences and technologies for energy storage devices.
Dr. Wei Li
Dr. Lihua Zou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flexible electronics
- polymers for battery
- polymers for supercapacitors
- polymers for fuel cells
- polymer-based electrolytes
- polymer-based electrodes
- conductive polymers
- ionic conductivity
- structural modulation of polymer materials
- electrochemical energy storage
- energy density
