Metal Catalysts for High-Performance Batteries
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 86
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Li-S batteries; secondary rechargeable batteries; single-atom catalysts
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Dear Colleagues,
Since 1990s, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been successfully commercialized in the energy storage market. However, current LIBs with a cell-level energy density of 150–250 Wh kg−1 offer a drive range of 300 to 600 km for electric vehicles (for example, LIBs in Tesla electric vehicles have cell-level energy densities of ~250 Wh kg−1), which is insufficient for achieving a 500-mile drive distance per charge with a reasonable battery pack size to alleviate range anxiety. The capacity of traditional electrode materials has nearly reached the limit value. Therefore, new high-energy-density batteries are urgently required to satisfy the ever-increasing demand. Alternatively, metal catalysts, which can be introduced into metal–sulfur (for example, Li-S batteries) batteries to boosts their electrochemical performance, provide an avenue for exploration for the invention of new rechargeable batteries.
This Special Issue focuses on catalysts in advanced secondary rechargeable batteries, including but not limited to SACs, heterogeneous catalysts and metal phthalocyanine, etc. We welcome colleagues worldwide who are working in the field of metal catalysis to submit papers for this Special Issue.
Dr. Gan Qu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- single-atom catalysts
- heterogeneous catalysts
- metal phthalocyanine
- sulfur reduction reaction
- sulfur evolution reaction
- metal–sulfur batteries
- high-performance batteries
