Applications of High-Performance Electrolyte Materials in Batteries
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 4427
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Interests: MXene; Li-ion batteries; energy storage
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Dear Colleagues,
Existing battery technologies still face performance and cost challenges, including barriers to specific energy, energy density, service life, and charge efficiency at high rates, originating from the fundamental behavior of the active and inactive materials used. With all their benefits and drawbacks, electrolytes play a key, critical role in terms of design and control of electrode processes, as well as regarding material interactions, performance, long-term stability, cost, and the safety of a battery.
Battery chemistry and the materials within are selected based on the requirements of the application. Li-ion has been dominating in applications that require high energy density, for instance, while Li-S, Li-air, Na-ion, Mg-ion, and other alternative battery chemistries have been developed in addition to Li-ion to further improve the energy density and to meet the cost, safety, and sustainability issues related to Li-ion technology. Solid electrolytes offer improved safety but currently at the cost of lower ionic conductivity, in comparison to liquid electrolytes. Common to all battery chemistries, understanding the phenomena and correlations within materials and at their interfaces is a requirement for the development of better and safer batteries.
This Special Issue focuses on materials related to electrolytes and electrode–electrolyte interfaces of the various modern battery technologies in research. We warmly welcome contributions of manuscripts reporting the following: development of electrolyte materials (liquid, polymer, and solid) and electrode coatings, as well as material characterization.
Prof. Dr. Weizhai Bao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Li-ion batteries
- solid electrolyte batteries
- lithium-sulfur batteries
- sodium-sulfur batteries
- high-performance electrolytes
- electrode coatings
- energy materials
