Recent Advances in Polymer Electrolytes for Batteries
A special issue of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105). This special issue belongs to the section "Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 September 2024 | Viewed by 1138
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Batteries will play a key role in the efficient transition of the technology associated with the energy and transport sectors towards a carbon-neutral economy, which is essential for the fight against climate change. The lithium-ion battery has emerged as the state-of-the-art technology for applications, ranging from small handheld electronics to electric vehicles and stationary energy storage. However, the current lithium-ion battery technology has reached its practical limits in terms of energy density and has recently raised safety concerns due to the flammability of the traditional liquid-based electrolyte. Over the last decades, various alternative high-energy density battery technologies have been proposed, such as lithium metal, alkali metal-air, sulphur and silicon batteries. The use of traditional liquid-based electrolytes in conjunction with these high-energy density active materials is challenging due to various factors, such as the degradation of the electrolyte in contact with active materials, inability of traditional liquid-based electrolytes to form stable solid electrolyte interphase and active material dissolution issues. Additionally, a high-modulus solid electrolyte has been shown to enable the use of a lithium metal anode, which is critical for the development of high-energy density batteries. Polymer electrolytes have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional liquid-based electrolytes due to their inherent proprieties, such as process-ability, good physio-chemical stability and low flammability, enabling the use of the aforementioned high-energy density active materials. This Special Issue aims to highlight the recent advances in polymer electrolytes for application in high-energy-density battery technologies.
Potential topics, but not limited to, are:
- Solid polymer electrolyte;
- Ionogel electrolyte;
- Block copolymer electrolytes;
- Single ion conducting polymer electrolytes;
- Alkali metal salt for solid-state electrolyte;
- Hybrid polymer electrolytes;
- Elucidation of the ionic dynamic and speciation in solid-state electrolytes;
- Solid electrolyte interphase;
- In-situ and operando characterization of all solid-state batteries;
- Solid-state electrolyte processing;
- Lithium metal batteries;
- Alkali metal-air batteries;
- Lithium Sulphur batteries;
- Solid-state silicon-based batteries.
Dr. Nicolas Goujon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solid polymer electrolyte
- ionogel electrolyte
- block copolymer electrolytes
- single ion conducting polymer electrolytes
- alkali metal salt for solid-state electrolyte
- hybrid polymer electrolytes
- elucidation of the ionic dynamic and speciation in solid-state electrolytes
- solid electrolyte interphase
- in-situ and operando characterization of all solid-state batteries
- solid-state electrolyte processing
- lithium metal batteries
- alkali metal-air batteries
- lithium sulphur batteries
- solid-state silicon-based batteries
