Recent Progress in Electrode Materials and Electrolytes for Li-Based Battery Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2022) | Viewed by 642
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Interests: electrocatalysis; battery; environmental pollution; nanomaterials; metal oxide semiconductors; photoelectrocatalysis
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Interests: nanomaterials; sensors; electrocatalysis; batteries; functional coatings; (photo-)catalysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lithium-ion batteries market is evolving constantly. Electric vehicles (EVs) manufacturers are continuously changing their preferences depending on cathodes/anodes features in terms of energy density, safety, cost, life and stability. For instance, the biggest and main shortcomings of current Electric Vehicles (EVs) running with Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) are still the fairly limited range between recharges and the limited specific capacity of the cathode materials. In this context, rechargeable non-aqueous Li-Air Batteries (LABs) are believed to be a promising alternative for both electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage thanks to its high theoretical energy density. Nevertheless, the sluggish Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) and Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) cause huge overpotentials thus impeding the LABs to work at the fullest. Fundamentally, Li-air devices need a bifunctional electrocatalyst to enhance the ORR/OER kinetics together with suitable electrolytes/solvents that do not degrade during battery cycling. Aiming to highlight the breakthroughs in both electrode materials and electrolytes/solvents, this Special Issue will critically focus on the design of novel electrocatalysts together with recently adopted electrolytes/solvents showing boosted features for lithium-based devices.
We kindly invite you to submit manuscript(s) for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications and reviews are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Alberto Vertova
Guest Editor
Dr. Eleonora Pargoletti
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Li-air batteries
- organic solvent
- electrolytes
- oxygen reduction reaction
- oxygen evolution reaction
- electrocatalysts
