Multifunctional Binders for Sustainable Li-ion Batteries
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 8992
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrogen storage; carbon capture & storage; Li-ion batteries; solar adsorption cooling; porous materials
Interests: hydrogen storage; fuel cells; thermochemical energy storage and carbon capture; nanotechnology; multifunctional materials; photocatalysis; material synthesis and characterization; thermochromic and electrochromic materials; leachate remediation via advanced oxidation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue includes papers on recent advances in multifunctional binders for Li-ion batteries. Li-ion battery technology has improved significantly over the last decade, thanks to the developments in the materials, engineering design and manufacturing of batteries. One of the critical components of Li-ion batteries is the binder that holds the active particles and inactive conductive additives of the composite electrodes in contact with each other and with the current collector. An ideal binder should be mechanically robust to withstand the contraction and expansion of the electrodes during Li de/-intercalation, and chemically inert to solvents used in electrolytes. The demand for higher capacity batteries requires complete or partial replacement of graphite with alloy anodes (i.e., Si, Sn, etc.) that have significantly higher volume expansion during Li intercalation. As a result, more mechanically robust binders are needed in the future. Additionally, developing conductive binders can reduce the need for adding inactive conductive additives to the composite electrodes, and can slow the degradation of a battery. In this Special Issue, recent developments in multifunctional binders that are mechanically robust, chemically inert and electrically conductive are discussed. Papers invited to this Special Issue were subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of the rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments and applications
Asst. Prof. Dr. Dervis Emre Demirocak
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sesha Srinivasan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Li-ion batteries
- multifunctional binders
- degradation
- aging
- anode
- cathode
