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
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Cathode Material for Metal-Air Batteries (Deadline: 10 October 2023)
- Functional Nanomaterials-Based Flexible Batteries (Deadline: 16 October 2023)
- Advanced Cathode and Anode Materials for Lithium/Sodium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 20 October 2023)
- Advanced Electrode and Electrolyte Materials for All-Solid-State Batteries (Deadline: 20 October 2023)
- Recent Progress of Flow Battery (Deadline: 26 October 2023)
- Emerging Materials and Technologies for Post-Lithium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- High Performance Sodium Rechargeable Batteries and Beyond (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Research on Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Carbon-Based Electrode Materials for Batteries and Supercapacitors (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- High-Performance Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Advanced Electrode Materials for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Recent Progress in Energy Storage Materials and Devices (Deadline: 10 November 2023)
- Advances in Anode and Electrolyte Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Beyond (Deadline: 15 November 2023)
- High Capacity Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 15 November 2023)
- Recent Advances of All-Solid-State Battery (Deadline: 15 November 2023)
- Electrode Materials and Electrolyte for Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 20 November 2023)
- Novel Electrolytes for Batteries and Supercapacitors (Deadline: 20 November 2023)
- Advanced Materials for Batteries (Deadline: 20 November 2023)
- Redox Flow Batteries: Recent Advances and Perspectives (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Novel Electrode Materials and Technologies for High-Energy-Density Lithium-Ion and Lithium-Metal Battery (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Recent Progress in All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Novel Flexible Aqueous Batteries and Supercapacitors with High Safety (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Toward Next-Generation Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries: Current Status and Future Prospects (Deadline: 20 December 2023)
- Recent Advances in Polymer Electrolytes for Batteries (Deadline: 25 December 2023)
- Solid State Batteries: From Materials Research to Design and Applications (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Zinc-Ion Batteries: Issues and Opportunities (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Rechargeable Multivalent Metal-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 10 January 2024)
- Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Supercapacitors (Deadline: 15 January 2024)
- Next Generation Batteries with Advanced Electrolytes and Interlayers (Deadline: 15 January 2024)
- Emerging Topics in Advanced Electrode Materials for Metal-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 15 January 2024)
- Next-Generation Materials and Advanced Characterisation Techniques for Practical Li-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 19 January 2024)
- Advancements in Electrode-Electrolyte Interface: From Lithium-Ion to Multi-Valent Batteries (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Designing High-Energy Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Materials and Interface Designs for Batteries (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Zn-Ion Batteries: Latest Advances and Prospects (Deadline: 15 February 2024)
- Solid-State Batteries: Theory, Methods and Applications (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Green and Sustainable Materials for Li-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Rechargeable Zinc–Air Battery (Deadline: 20 February 2024)
- Electrolytes for Solid State Batteries (Deadline: 23 February 2024)
- All-Solid-State Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 26 February 2024)
- Metal Anodes for High-Performance Batteries: Looking towards 2040 (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Lithium-Ion Batteries: Design, Preparation, Reaction Mechanisms of Electrode Materials, and Battery Life Evaluation (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries: New Materials and Methods (Deadline: 5 March 2024)
- Electrolyte and Electrode Design for Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 15 March 2024)
- Advances in Electrode Materials for Advanced Batteries (Deadline: 15 March 2024)
- Functional Binders and Additives for Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions:
