Advanced Charge Storage Materials

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the journal Materials, we would like to invite you to publish a paper in the Special Issue entitled “Advanced Charge Storage Materials”.

Electrochemical energy storage is considered to be a promising strategy that could be used to solve the global energy crisis and the issue of environmental pollution owing to its intriguing advantages of greenness, sustainability, high efficiency, etc. The exploration of advanced charge storage materials (ACSMs), with three typical charge storage models that have electric double layer (EDL), pseudocapacitive, and faradaic characteristics, plays a key role in the field of electrochemical energy storage. Research into charge storage mechanisms (e.g., adsorption, insertion, conversion, alloying and the combination of these mixed mechanisms, etc.) and research into structure-performance relationships via various in situ/ex situ physicochemical characterization methods, electrochemical techniques, and density functional theory (DFT) for ACSMs are very important research topics.

Engineering in structure designs (e.g., doping, deficiency, hetero-junction, high-entropy, etc.), morphology tuning (e.g., hollow structure, nanowires, hierarchical porosity, etc.), and modifications of electrode/electrolytes interfaces for ACSMs are topics of special interest. The aim is for ACSM electrodes to have high specific capacity, high rate capability, and durable cycle stability, and it is preferable for them to be binder-free, flexible, and thick or have a high mass-loading and/or all-climate design. ACSMs include popular electrode materials made of various carbon materials (porous carbon, graphene, carbon quantum dots, etc.), transition metal compounds (oxides/sulfides/selenides/nitrides/fluorides/phosphides, etc.), conducting polymers, MXenes, metal/covalent organic frame materials (MOFs, COFs), etc., which have gained particular interest in terms of their applications in conventional liquid or novel quasi-/solid-state types of aqueous and nonaqueous electrochemical energy storage devices, for example, aqueous supercapacitors (ASCs), aqueous batteries (ABs), aqueous supercabatteries (ASCBs), Li/Na/K-ion batteries (L/N/K-IBs), Li/Na/K-ion capacitors (L/N/K-ICs), dual-ion batteries (DIBs), etc.

We encourage research papers and reviews considering, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Novel types of ACSMs for electrochemical energy storage;
• Interesting structure designs and morphology tuning of ACSMs;
• Novel ACSMs with the high specific capacity, high rate capabilities, and durable cycle stability;
• Novel ACSMs with binder-free, flexible, thick, or high mass-loading and/or all-climate design;
• Novel findings on the charge storage mechanisms for ACSMs;
• Deep insights into the structure-performance relationship of ACSMs;
• Intriguing modifications of electrode/electrolytes interface for ACSMs.
• The novel design of electrochemical energy storage devices based on ACSMs.

Dr. Rui Ding
Guest Editor

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• supercapacitors
• batteries
• supercabatteries or supercapatteries
• electrode materials
• charge storage mechanisms
• electrochemical energy storage
• pseudocapacitive
• faradaic
• anode materials
• cathode materials
• electrode/electrolytes interfaces