Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others
A section of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105).
Section Information
Our society is becoming electrified as it enters the battery-of-things (BoT) era, with examples of contributing innovations ranging from various battery-powered portable and wearable electronics and robots to e-mobilities including electric vehicles (EVs), e-scooters, drones, ships, aircrafts, aerospace applications, etc., and grid-based energy storage systems (ESSs), which present solutions for reducing carbon emissions.
Although the number of EVs is largely increasing worldwide, there are still barriers and the continuous need for advances in materials used in the state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries, in addition to the requirement for future batteries that work in new chemistries and offer improved performance and lifetime, safety, and lower cost. These can be achieved by designing and exploring new advanced materials and interfaces. Research on advanced materials involves developing ways to better understand the mechanisms and critical parameters affecting performance, lifetime, charge kinetics, and safety, thus utilizing instrumental characterization of materials in the batteries and their interactions.
In this section, we highlight the advances made in the development of new active and passive materials and their interfaces in addition to cell design, fabrication, and evaluation for new chemistries, such as for lithium-ion batteries and next-generation batteries as well as the fundamental science influencing their electrochemistry, reaction mechanisms, failure mechanisms, and synthetic processes along with the advanced in situ and ex situ surface/interface/interphase and bulk analysis techniques and methods aiming to probe their dynamic electrochemical processes.
The Battery Materials and Interfaces section of Batteries journal covers all topics in battery-related research, development, and applications:
- Anode active materials
- Cathode active materials
- Electrolytes and electrolyte materials: liquid, solid, semi-solid, or hybrid/composite
- Separators
- Binder and additives
- Current collectors
- Other active and passive materials
- Battery electrochemistry
- Electrode-electrolyte interfaces
- Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI)
- Interfaces between materials
- Mechanism studies
- Theory and modeling of battery materials and systems
- Cell design
- Analyses of bulk, interface, and interphases
- Advanced in situ and ex situ characterization techniques
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Functional Binders and Additives for Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Advanced Studies on High-Performance Metal-Ion Capacitors: Technologies, Systems and Applications (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Li-Ion Battery Materials: Latest Advances and Prospects—2nd Edition (Deadline: 10 May 2024)
- Emerging Materials and Technologies for Post-Lithium-Ion Batteries—2nd Edition (Deadline: 15 May 2024)
- Research on Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 15 May 2024)
- Recent Process of Solid State Lithium Batteries (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Advances in Anode and Electrolyte Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Beyond (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- High-Performance Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 20 June 2024)
- Advanced Electrode Materials for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 20 June 2024)
- High-Energy Materials and Electrode/Electrolyte Interphase Tailoring for Sustainable Batteries (Deadline: 25 June 2024)
- Recent Progress in Energy Storage Materials and Devices (Deadline: 25 June 2024)
- Toward Next-Generation Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries: Current Status and Future Prospects (Deadline: 10 July 2024)
- Energy-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (Deadline: 15 July 2024)
- Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives (Deadline: 15 July 2024)
- Recent Advances of All-Solid-State Battery (Deadline: 6 August 2024)
- Advancements in Electrode-Electrolyte Interface: From Lithium-Ion to Multi-valent Batteries (Deadline: 15 August 2024)
- Recent Progress of Flow Battery (Deadline: 15 August 2024)
- High Performance Sodium Rechargeable Batteries and Beyond (Deadline: 15 August 2024)
- Advances in Solid Electrolytes and Solid-State Batteries (Deadline: 15 August 2024)
- Lead Acid Batteries (Deadline: 20 August 2024)
- High Capacity Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 10 September 2024)
- Recent Advances in Polymer Electrolytes for Batteries (Deadline: 10 September 2024)
- Novel Electrolytes for Batteries and Supercapacitors (Deadline: 10 September 2024)
- Layered Structured Materials for Batteries (Deadline: 10 October 2024)
- Lithium-Ion Batteries: Design, Preparation, Reaction Mechanisms of Electrode Materials, and Battery Life Evaluation (Deadline: 15 October 2024)
- Electrolyte and Electrode Design for Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 25 October 2024)
- Advanced Materials and Technologies in All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries (Deadline: 5 November 2024)
- Electrolytes for Solid State Batteries—2nd Edition (Deadline: 15 November 2024)
- Advances in Post-Lithium-Ion Energy Storage Devices (Deadline: 15 November 2024)
- Lithium-Ion Batteries and Li-Ion Capacitors: From Fundamentals to Practical Applications: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 15 November 2024)
- Electrode Materials and Electrolyte for Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 25 November 2024)
- Zn-Ion Batteries: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 25 November 2024)
- Designing High-Energy Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (Deadline: 29 November 2024)
- Advanced Electrode and Electrolyte Materials for All-Solid-State Batteries (Deadline: 15 December 2024)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions:
