Advances in Electrode Nanomaterials for Fast-Charging Ion Batteries
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Advanced Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 1837
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Interests: nanoscale heat and mass transfer; energy storage mechanisms; fabrication of nanomaterials and electrolyte; thermal management; supercapacitors and Li+/Na+/Zn2+ ion battery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ever-growing markets of portable electronics and electric vehicles have created enormous demands for advanced electrochemical energy storage (EES) technologies. Ion batteries (e.g., Li+, Na+, K+ and Zn2+) have been recognized as the dominant commercial EES technologies among existing energy storage devices. The inventors of the Li-ion battery (Goodenough, Whittingham, and Yoshino) were honored with the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. However, current ion batteries suffer from a slow charging rate and long charging times (2~4 h), which have inevitably reduced consumer acceptance and market penetration of global electric vehicles. According to the United States Advanced Battery Consortium, the benchmark for a fast-charging battery is the obtainment of an 80% of state of charge within 15 min. Unfortunately, most ion batteries in the electric vehicle market fail to meet such a requirement. Therefore, developing an ion battery with suitable charging capability has become a critical step in the further marketization of electric vehicles.
Ion batteries store energy via reversible ion intercalation and deintercalation in electrode materials. A critical challenge is presented by designing fast-charging ion with high-rate and superior-safety anode and cathode materials, in order to reduce the ion intercalation/deintercalation barriers, shorten ion diffusion pathways and improve the interfacial reaction kinetics. In this regard, this Special Issue aims to provide a platform for researchers to: (i) discuss ion storage mechanisms during the energy storage process, (ii) develop or employ advanced experimental measurements or simulation methods to accurately reveal the ion charging/discharging process, (iii) reveal the critical influence factors of fast-charging electrode materials, and (iv) provide new design guidance or future development directions for developing fast-charging advanced electrodes.
Authors are invited to submit original research, reviews and perspectives related to the latest advances and prospects in fast-charging electrode nanomaterials. Submissions to this Special Issue should present the latest advances in ion energy storage mechanisms, optimization of anodes and cathodes and performance breakthroughs in fast-charging ion batteries. The following topics will be covered, among others:
- Energy storage mechanisms in electrochemical energy storage;
- Ion intercalation/deintercalation process;
- Ion adsorption/desorption process;
- Ion solvation state in the charging/discharging process;
- Formation mechanisms of SEI film;
- Ion transport properties in SEI film;
- Interfacial ion reaction kinetics;
- Influences of electrolyte properties;
- Fast charging anode and cathode materials;
- Morphology regulation, structural design, interface modification;
- Electronic conductivity of materials;
- Ion diffusivity of materials;
- Carbon-based anode materials: graphite, hard carbon;
- Alloy-type anode materials: silicon;
- Transition-metal oxide-based anode materials: LTO;
- LFP and NCM cathode materials;
- DFT simulation on the ionic intercalation and deintercalation;
- MD simulation of ionic adsorption/desorption;
- WIS electrolytes with wide temperature and voltage window;
- High-performance supercapacitors;
- Rate performance and thermal management;
- High-performance Li+, Na+, K+ and Zn2+ ion batteries.
Dr. Huachao Yang
Prof. Dr. Jinlong Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy storage mechanisms
- ion intercalation/deintercalation
- interfacial ion reaction kinetics
- fast-charging anode
- fast-charging cathode
- rate performance
- in situ experimental measurement
- multiscale simulation
- ion battery
- electrochemical energy storage technology
