Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others
A section of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105).
Section Information
Our society is becoming electrified as it enters the battery-of-things (BoT) era, with examples of contributing innovations ranging from various battery-powered portable and wearable electronics and robots to e-mobilities including electric vehicles (EVs), e-scooters, drones, ships, aircrafts, aerospace applications, etc., and grid-based energy storage systems (ESSs), which present solutions for reducing carbon emissions.
Although the number of EVs is largely increasing worldwide, there are still barriers and the continuous need for advances in materials used in the state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries, in addition to the requirement for future batteries that work in new chemistries and offer improved performance and lifetime, safety, and lower cost. These can be achieved by designing and exploring new advanced materials and interfaces. Research on advanced materials involves developing ways to better understand the mechanisms and critical parameters affecting performance, lifetime, charge kinetics, and safety, thus utilizing instrumental characterization of materials in the batteries and their interactions.
In this section, we highlight the advances made in the development of new active and passive materials and their interfaces in addition to cell design, fabrication, and evaluation for new chemistries, such as for lithium-ion batteries and next-generation batteries as well as the fundamental science influencing their electrochemistry, reaction mechanisms, failure mechanisms, and synthetic processes along with the advanced in situ and ex situ surface/interface/interphase and bulk analysis techniques and methods aiming to probe their dynamic electrochemical processes.
The Battery Materials and Interfaces section of Batteries journal covers all topics in battery-related research, development, and applications:
- Anode active materials
- Cathode active materials
- Electrolytes and electrolyte materials: liquid, solid, semi-solid, or hybrid/composite
- Separators
- Binder and additives
- Current collectors
- Other active and passive materials
- Battery electrochemistry
- Electrode-electrolyte interfaces
- Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI)
- Interfaces between materials
- Mechanism studies
- Theory and modeling of battery materials and systems
- Cell design
- Analyses of bulk, interface, and interphases
- Advanced in situ and ex situ characterization techniques
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Recent Progress in Energy Storage Materials and Devices (Deadline: 28 May 2025)
- High-Energy Materials and Electrode/Electrolyte Interphase Tailoring for Sustainable Batteries (Deadline: 30 May 2025)
- Functional Binders and Additives for Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Lithium-Ion Batteries: Design, Preparation, Reaction Mechanisms of Electrode Materials, and Battery Life Evaluation (Deadline: 5 June 2025)
- Electrolyte and Electrode Design for Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 10 June 2025)
- The Breakthrough of Traditional Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems (Deadline: 10 June 2025)
- Recent Advances of All-Solid-State Battery (Deadline: 16 June 2025)
- High-Energy Lithium Metal Batteries (Deadline: 20 June 2025)
- Designing Sustainable Sodium/Zinc Batteries for the Future (Deadline: 16 July 2025)
- Electrolytes for Solid State Batteries—2nd Edition (Deadline: 18 July 2025)
- Advanced Carbon-Based Materials for Next-Generation Batteries and Supercapacitors (Deadline: 10 August 2025)
- Advanced Materials and Degradation Mechanisms in Beyond-Lithium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 10 August 2025)
- Advanced Electrolytes for Enhancing Performance in Lithium/Sodium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Advanced Electrode and Electrolyte Materials for All-Solid-State Batteries (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Advanced Studies on High-Performance Metal-Ion Capacitors: Technologies, Systems and Applications (Deadline: 29 August 2025)
- Lithium-Ion Batteries and Li-Ion Capacitors: From Fundamentals to Practical Applications: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 August 2025)
- Solid-State Batteries: Current Processes and Future Challenges (Deadline: 15 September 2025)
- Advanced Characterization Techniques for Batteries (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- Multifunctional Electrode Materials for Sustainable Energy Storage Devices (Deadline: 15 October 2025)
- Critical Materials and Interface Engineering for All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries (Deadline: 15 October 2025)
- Emerging Materials and Technologies for Post-Lithium-Ion Batteries—2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 October 2025)
- Toward Next-Generation Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries: Current Status and Future Prospects (Deadline: 10 November 2025)
- Battery Interface: Analysis & Design (Deadline: 10 November 2025)
- Solid-State Electrolytes: From Fundamental Understanding to Advanced Material Design (Deadline: 10 November 2025)
- Optimized Structure and Electrolyte Design for High-Performance Lithium Metal Batteries (Deadline: 20 November 2025)
- Novel Materials for Rechargeable Batteries (Deadline: 25 November 2025)
- Advanced Electrode Materials for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries—2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 November 2025)
- Advances in Electrolyte Materials for Solid-State Batteries (Deadline: 25 November 2025)
- High-Performance Secondary Batteries: Recent Processes and Future Challenges (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
- High Capacity Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
- 10th Anniversary of Batteries: Interface Science in Batteries (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions:
