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Accounting-Guided Data Augmentation for LightGBM Prediction of Cradle-to-Gate Carbon Footprints of LFP and NMC811 Battery Cells

  • Zhihao Xu,
  • Haoyang Li,
  • Songxian Peng,
  • Guangzong Xu and ,
  • Xinlong Wang and
  • Lijing Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author
Batteries2026, 12(11), 477;https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries12110477 
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7 November 2026

Machine-learning models fitted to limited battery inventory data may reproduce nominal carbon footprints accurately while failing to preserve known inventory–emission relationships under changed inputs. This study evaluates accounting-guided da...

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Batteries2026, 12(11), 476;https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries12110476 
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6 November 2026

Accurate state-of-charge (SOC) estimation is essential for lithium-ion battery management, but low temperatures, dynamic loads, and measurement disturbances challenge both model-based and data-driven estimators. This study proposes a physics-gated mu...

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Data-Driven Battery State Estimation for E-Mobility Applications: Challenges, Recent Advances, and Future Directions

  • Aaruththiran Manoharan,
  • Fazal Ur Rehman,
  • Aydin Emre Utku,
  • Mehmet Emre Aslakci and ,
  • Kun Qian,
  • Kasper Mayntz Paasch,
  • Thomas Ebel and
  • Henrik Andersen
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Batteries2026, 12(11), 475;https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries12110475 
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6 November 2026

Data-driven battery state estimation has been widely studied in recent years to enable safe, reliable, and lifetime-aware battery management in e-mobility applications, where accurate estimation is essential under highly dynamic operating conditions....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Battery Management Systems and Safety Strategies for Electric Vehicles)
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Machine Learning for Cathode Materials in Secondary Metal-Ion Batteries

  • Marco Catillo,
  • Francesco Buonocore,
  • Serena D’Onofrio,
  • Simone Giusepponi and
  • Massimo Celino
Batteries2026, 12(11), 474;https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries12110474 
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6 November 2026

This review surveys machine learning approaches for cathode materials in secondary metal-ion batteries, covering classical algorithms, deep neural networks and graph neural networks, and linking them to the main cathode chemistries and electrochemica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Electrode Materials and Electrolytes for Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries)
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6 November 2026

The use of conventional fluorinated refrigerants, such as R134a and R1234yf, is being progressively restricted as regulations on persistent substances, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), become increasingly stringent. Accordingly,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Battery Management System, Thermal Management System, Digital Twin and Model Predictive Control for Next-Generation Smart Battery Systems)
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State-of-Health Diagnostics in Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Methodological Framework for Scalable Mechanical Ageing Assessments

  • Maximilian Graaf,
  • Tim Neugebauer,
  • Niklas Kisseler,
  • Heiner H. Heimes and
  • Achim Kampker

6 November 2026

Pressure-related quantities such as internal pressure, cell expansion, and housing deformation are promising mechanical indicators of lithium-ion battery ageing because they are directly linked to degradation processes such as gas formation, lithium...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Storage System Aging, Diagnosis and Safety)
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6 November 2026

Accurate State of Health (SOH) estimation is essential for the safe and reliable operation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), yet most electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)-based approaches fix a single equivalent circuit model (ECM) topology an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence-Based State-of-Health Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries: 3rd Edition)
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5 November 2026

Accurate and rapid state-of-health (SOH) estimation is important for lithium-ion battery management, but many existing methods require complete charge–discharge curves or long static-rest measurements. This study develops a SOH estimation metho...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Storage System Aging, Diagnosis and Safety)
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5 November 2026

Non-linear changes and local fluctuations during lithium-ion battery capacity degradation complicate state of health (SOH) characterization. This study proposes a multiscale capacity reconstruction method combining complete ensemble empirical mode de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second-Life Batteries: Challenges and Opportunities)
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5 November 2026

Thermal runaway of lithium-ion batteries is a critical issue restricting their safe application. Efficient thermal management and flame-retardant protection are essential for improving the safety of battery systems. In this study, polyethylene glycol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Safety of Lithium Ion Batteries—3rd Edition)
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5 November 2026

The increasing thermal load associated with fast charging represents a major challenge for lithium-ion battery thermal management, particularly at high C-rates where conventional air cooling becomes insufficient. This study numerically investigates t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Runaway and Thermal Management: Toward Safe and Reliable Batteries)
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An Improved SegRNN-Based Hierarchical Warning Method for Power Battery Thermal Runaway

  • Jing Liu,
  • Yixuan Zhou,
  • Dunye Liao,
  • Shijie Cai and ,
  • Yugang Liu,
  • Bowen Yang,
  • Xiao Zhang,
  • Ranjun Huang,
  • Pei Zhang and
  • Jie Hu
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

4 November 2026

Early detection of thermal runaway in electric vehicle batteries remains challenging, and warning lead times during real-world operation are often limited. This paper proposes a hierarchical thermal runaway warning method based on an improved SegRNN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Runaway and Thermal Management: Toward Safe and Reliable Batteries)
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Multipulse HPPC for Current-Scheduled ECM Parameterization and SoC Estimation in EV Batteries

  • Yaminidhar Reddy Bhavanam,
  • Sreedhar Madichetty,
  • Abdelkader EL KAMEL and
  • Bonginkosi Thango

4 November 2026

Accurate state-of-charge (SoC) estimation is central to safe and efficient Battery Management Systems (BMS) in electric vehicles. This study evaluates a multipulse Hybrid Pulse Power Characterization (HPPC) protocol using three discharge rates (0.5 C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Battery Management System, Thermal Management System, Digital Twin and Model Predictive Control for Next-Generation Smart Battery Systems)
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4 November 2026

Rational design of nanostructures composed of mixed-metal oxides synthesized from metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is a very promising way to enhance the electrochemical performance (EP) of supercapacitor electrode materials. In this work, a por...

(This article belongs to the Section Supercapacitors)
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Multistep Constant Voltage Charging for Peak-Current Control and Improved Fast Charging Stability in Layered Cathodes

  • Prosper Aidoo,
  • Hyejin Choi,
  • Gyeongdo Park,
  • Sangyeob Lee and ,
  • Choong-Heui Chung,
  • Jehee Park,
  • Chunjoong Kim and
  • Kyojin Ku
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 November 2026

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles demands lithium-ion batteries capable of fast charging, yet achieving this without compromising cycle stability remains a critical challenge. While constant voltage (CV) charging is inherently capable of d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth-Abundant Active Materials for Li/Na-Ion Batteries: Development, Recycling and Manufacturing)
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4 November 2026

Studies that use the same public lithium-ion battery dataset do not necessarily evaluate the same state-of-health (SOH) estimation task; reported performance depends on how the experiment is defined. We mapped 408 studies and then examined a nested s...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Storage System Aging, Diagnosis and Safety)
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48 Pages

Beyond Surface Area: Interfacial Redox Chemistry in High-Energy-Density Hybrid Supercapacitors

  • Cristian Martínez-Perales,
  • Abniel Machín,
  • María C. Cotto,
  • Francisco Díaz and ,
  • José Duconge and
  • Francisco Márquez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 November 2026

High-energy-density supercapacitors are attracting increasing interest as electrochemical energy-storage devices capable of bridging the gap between conventional electric double-layer capacitors and rechargeable batteries. However, increasing energy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Energy Density Supercapacitors: Acquisition, Characterization, and Application: 2nd Edition)
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3 November 2026

Community-based energy sharing requires a local trading mechanism that provides economic incentives for both energy suppliers and consumers. This study proposes OptiPro, a framework for enabling a residential local energy market in which renewable-en...

(This article belongs to the Section Hybrid Energy Storage and Integrated Systems)
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Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on Artificial Neural Network-Supported Wiener Process with Random Effects

  • Xiaoyan Sun,
  • Shengjin Tang,
  • Fengchao Zhu,
  • Wenke Yang and ,
  • Xiaodong Xu and
  • Lifeng Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 November 2026

Among various data-driven approaches for remaining useful life (RUL) prediction, Wiener process-based degradation models are interpretable and quantify uncertainty. However, existing methods that combine artificial neural networks (ANNs) with the Wie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lithium-Ion Batteries: Aging Mechanisms, Diagnosis Method and Lifetime Assessment)
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3 November 2026

Accurate state-of-health (SOH) estimation across nonlinear battery aging is challenged by condition-dependent feature relevance. This study combines aging data up to a defined 80% SOH operational end-of-life threshold with an adaptive SHapley Additiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Intelligent Management Technologies of New Energy Batteries)
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101 Views
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3 November 2026

Screening of retired lithium ion cells limits second-life deployment, because full characterization resolves retention well yet occupies a test channel for hundreds of hours per cell. This study measures how much screening information each chronologi...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Storage System Aging, Diagnosis and Safety)
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AI-Enabled Battery Storage and Electric Vehicle Flexibility for Power-Quality-Constrained Photovoltaic Integration: A Critical Review

  • Amr S. Zalhaf,
  • Hongzhi Jiang,
  • Yang Han,
  • Mohamed Mohandes and ,
  • Ali Al-Shaikhi,
  • Abdelaziz M. Gebril and
  • Suliman Aladhadh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 November 2026

High photovoltaic (PV) penetration in distribution networks can be limited by voltage rise, unbalance, harmonics, thermal loading, and converter-current constraints before the available solar resource is fully utilized. Battery energy storage systems...

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Real Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity Estimation Method Based on the Fusion Model of Discrete Arrhenius and Double Extended Kalman Filter

  • Dongdong Qiao,
  • Zhicheng Zhu,
  • Xiaowei Shen,
  • Zhiwei Zhao and ,
  • Xiangjun Li and
  • Xin Lai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 November 2026

Accurate capacity estimation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in real-world electric vehicles (EVs) remains a critical challenge due to complex degradation mechanisms, sparse cloud-platform data, and the limitations of existing single-model approaches...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control, Modelling, and Management of Batteries: 2nd Edition)
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2 November 2026

Particle cracking contributes to lithium-ion battery degradation, motivating modeling approaches that combine numerical adaptability with interpretable degradation knowledge. Mamdani fuzzy systems encode such knowledge through linguistic rules, but t...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Storage System Aging, Diagnosis and Safety)
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Life-Cycle Powertrain Sizing of Diesel–Battery Hybrid Trains via Configuration-Specific Joint Optimization of Driving Strategy and Energy Management

  • Chi Zhang,
  • Xiaoyu Xian,
  • Jian Wu,
  • Xinjie Zheng and ,
  • Zhidong Jia,
  • Lei Wu,
  • Mingjun Leng,
  • Xingzhen Zhou,
  • Chenguang Fan and
  • Jiancheng Chen
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2 November 2026

Conventional powertrain sizing of diesel–battery hybrid trains evaluates candidate component sizes on a common prescribed driving cycle, although each design changes the fuel-efficient speed trajectory and power split. This study develops a con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Lithium-Ion Battery Safety and Fire: 2nd Edition)
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Electrochemically Assisted Leaching of Critical Metals from Spent NCA Batteries: Kinetic Study and Optimization

  • Artur Grigoryev,
  • Saken Abdimomyn,
  • Mikhail Simonov,
  • Amirkhan Bekmagambetov and ,
  • Renata Nemkayeva and
  • Fyodor Malchik
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 November 2026

Recovery of critical metals from spent lithium-ion batteries commonly relies on single-pass chemical reductants, increasing reagent consumption and limiting opportunities for reductant reuse. In this study, electrochemically assisted leaching (EAL) w...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Manufacturing and Circular Economy)
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2 November 2026

The validity of the models incorporated into battery management systems (BMSs) is crucial to the safe and effective use of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), the predominant electrochemical energy storage technology for electric vehicles (EVs) and station...

(This article belongs to the Section Lithium-Ion and Solid-State Batteries)
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2 November 2026

Few-shot adaptation of vision–language models (VLMs) could reduce the labeling effort for defect screening in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel-cell materials. We built a leakage-controlled benchmark...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Battery Health, Safety, and Lifetime Management in Electric Vehicles)
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2 November 2026

Continuous twin-screw extrusion of graphite anode slurries operates in a narrow window: too little kneading leaves carbon black agglomerates, and too much fractures the graphite. Existing studies collapse both defects into a single pass/fail criterio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Battery Manufacturing: Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities: 2nd Edition)
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1 November 2026

State-adaptive risk-aware rolling model predictive control (SA-RR-MPC) links experimentally calibrated battery action limits to grid-side tracking and ramp-risk costs in wind–solar–vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) regulation. Protocol-m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Redox Flow Batteries: Modeling, Optimization, and Management)
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Critical Challenges and Recent Advances Toward Practical Room-Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Zhijiang Su,
  • Simeng Tian,
  • Xuechao Yang,
  • Qi Wang and ,
  • Jia Chang,
  • Dalong Zhong,
  • Chunwei Dong,
  • Yang Dong and
  • Xiaoxiao Liang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

1 November 2026

Room-temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na–S) batteries are gaining renewed interest as a cost-effective, high-energy-density candidate for next-generation storage, owing to their high theoretical specific energy (1274 Wh kg−1) and the e...

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1 November 2026

Increasing knowledge of lithium-ion battery degradation continues to play a vital role in fields such as consumer and transportation applications for optimal efficiency in power delivery to devices. To accomplish this, recent avenues in battery manag...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Storage System Aging, Diagnosis and Safety)
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30 October 2026

Additional sensor modalities may improve short-horizon lithium-ion battery thermal-runaway (TR) forecasting within familiar experimental domains, but whether that benefit persists in unseen cell/source families is unclear. This study evaluated cross-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries: Thermal Safety, Thermal Management and Solid-State Technologies)
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27 October 2026

Lithium-ion batteries in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) experience highly dynamic electrical loads, but thermal warning criteria are rarely interpreted against non-abuse aviation-oriented operating states. This study integrated three independent dat...

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210 Views
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26 October 2026

Accurate battery fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) is essential for ensuring the safety, health monitoring, and operational performance of electric vehicles (EVs). Yet, existing research still suffers from issues such as limited classification accu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Data-Driven and Learning Methods Applied to Battery Safety and Health)
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23 October 2026

This study investigates how two-RC equivalent circuit model (ECM) parameters reflect battery aging and contribute to state-of-health (SOH) estimation under different operating conditions. The analysis uses 12,643 measurements from 30 LG HE4 cells age...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Batteries: Battery Health, Aging and Degradation Mechanisms)
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22 October 2026

This paper presents HAC-DBAT, a normal-data-only dual-branch Transformer framework for record-level fault recognition and faulty-cell localization in heterogeneous electric-vehicle battery packs. The dataset comprises 88 vehicle records, including 34...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Battery Thermal Management Solution for Electric Vehicles, 2nd Edition)
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22 October 2026

Aiming to mitigate the issues of heat buildup and excessive flow resistance in traditional cold plates applied to lithium-ion batteries, this work develops a topology optimization framework and produces two optimized layouts (Case III and Case IV) wi...

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Exploring Ion Pairing Behavior on the Performance of Bipyridinium-Based Aqueous Organic Flow Batteries

  • Junwei Chen,
  • Quan Hu,
  • Mingwei Wang,
  • Ying Zhang and ,
  • Chaojie Li,
  • Zengxin Pu,
  • Tianjing Shao,
  • Ruijing Yang,
  • Weiping Li and
  • Wenjin Li
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

21 October 2026

Aqueous organic flow batteries (AOFBs) are a promising technology for large-scale energy storage. The electrolyte solution is significant in determining the battery’s performance, which has so far remained poorly understood, especially for conc...

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20 October 2026

A growing number of second-life battery companies are entering North America’s stationary energy storage market as the demand for both electric vehicles and electricity grid energy storage continues to rise. These companies have many potential...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second-Life Batteries: Challenges and Opportunities)
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19 October 2026

Accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is essential. To overcome the susceptibility of conventional data-driven models to local optima and terminal divergence under complex conditions, this paper proposes a novel j...

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16 October 2026

Thermally induced damage in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is a critical safety concern, especially when approaching thermal runaway (TR) conditions. In this study, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was used to detect thermally induced damag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Runaway and Thermal Management: Toward Safe and Reliable Batteries)
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16 October 2026

With the increasing renewable penetration in electrical grids, high power ramp rates can lead to grid instability. Power ramp-rate control (PRRC) requirements are being implemented in an increasing number of countries, with penalties for non-complian...

(This article belongs to the Section Hybrid Energy Storage and Integrated Systems)
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Numerical Study on the Fire Characteristics and the Water Mist Suppression Performance for Lithium-Ion Battery Boxes on Storage Shelves

  • Qinwei Zhang,
  • Lilin Yin,
  • Han Zhang,
  • Wenhao Hua and ,
  • Zelin Zhang and
  • Bin Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 October 2026

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been widely used in electric vehicles and energy storage systems. Due to their high energy density and complex structural components, thermal runaway of LIBs can lead to severe fire and explosion hazards. Densely arr...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Storage System Aging, Diagnosis and Safety)
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16 October 2026

The structural design of self-standing electrodes without binders and current collectors is critical for maximizing the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, yet achieving electrical conductivity, ion accessibility, and mechanical integrity in a s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth-Abundant Active Materials for Li/Na-Ion Batteries: Development, Recycling and Manufacturing)
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16 October 2026

As a core component of the new power system, energy-storage batteries undergo capacity degradation, increasing internal resistance and declining state of health (SOH) as a result of calendar aging. These changes compromise the operational safety and...

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15 October 2026

Vehicle-level battery labels paired with many charging records create a weakly supervised rare-event problem. We evaluated a two-level multiple-instance framework on 191 vehicles (184 normal and seven source-coded abnormal) from the public EVBattery...

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Control Volume Free Element Method for Simulating Thermal Runaway of Lithium-Ion Battery

  • Hua-Yu Liu,
  • Tao Pan,
  • Sheng-Dong Wang,
  • Xiao-Wei Gao and ,
  • Miao Cui and
  • Bo Ruan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 October 2026

The safety of lithium-ion batteries is a critical concern, and this paper introduces a novel simulation approach for thermal runaway using the control volume free element method (CVFrEM). This method uniquely integrates the geometric adaptability of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Runaway and Thermal Management: Toward Safe and Reliable Batteries)
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Non-Destructive Mechanical Characterization of 4680 Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Cells for Cell-to-X Integration

  • Nima Ghandily,
  • Rizwan Javed,
  • Niklas Kisseler,
  • Heiner Heimes and
  • Achim Kampker

15 October 2026

Electric vehicles offer a sustainable alternative to combustion engines but still face range and safety limitations. Integrating battery cells as structural elements (Cell-to-X, CTX) is a promising route to address both, but requires cells that relia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries: Thermal Safety, Thermal Management and Solid-State Technologies)
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State of Charge and State of Energy Estimation for Semi-Solid Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on Multi-Scale Temporal Convolutional Network

  • Long Wang,
  • Guangyi Yang,
  • Nianyong Zhao,
  • Zhipeng Wang and ,
  • Ran Li and
  • Xiaoyu Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 October 2026

Against the backdrop of the energy crisis and environmental pollution, semi-solid lithium-ion batteries have been widely applied in energy storage and electric vehicles. Accurate joint estimation of state of charge (SOC) and state of energy (SOE) is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Battery Health, Safety, and Lifetime Management in Electric Vehicles)
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