Battery Mechanisms and Fundamental Electrochemistry Aspects
A section of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105).
Section Information
The development and production of sustainable and efficient batteries is a strategic imperative in both the mobility sector and grid-based energy storage systems. The greatest current challenge is not only understanding the battery mechanism but also controlling and designing electrode materials, interfaces and interphases for the development of ultra-performing, smart, and sustainable batteries.
This section comprises papers in which electrochemical techniques, advanced characterization tools and computational methodologies are employed, singularly or in combination, to disentangle the complex electrochemistry occurring at both electrodes; this is in order to evidence the electronic and ionic processes occurring at various interfaces, thus providing a picture of the complex dynamics. Therefore, these papers report the fundamental science influencing the electrochemistry and redox activity at electrodes, reaction mechanisms, failure mechanisms, and advanced in situ and ex situ surface/interface/interphase and bulk analysis techniques.
The scope of the ‘Battery Mechanism and Fundamental Electrochemistry Aspects’ section of Batteries includes the following topics related to the research, development, and application of batteries:
- Fundamentals of battery electrochemistry
- Kinetics of the intercalation and conversion reaction
- Reaction mechanism and dynamics of electrochemical processes
- Electrochemical-based methods
- Models and methods for the characterization of interfaces in batteries
- Evolution of SEI and CEI
- Computational methods
- Methods for the identification of interphases
- Analyses of electrode materials and analysis of interphases
- Advanced in situ and ex situ characterization techniques
- Post-mortem analysis of batteries
- Timescale and length-scale methods
- Analytical methods for the study of the electron and ion movement in batteries
- Synchrotron-based methods
- Structural and electronic reversibility in batteries
- Chemometric methods for the study of the operando dataset in batteries
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Electrochemistry of Lead-Acid Batteries (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Development, Application, and Characterization of New Electrode Materials for Advanced Batteries (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Advanced Characterizations in Solid-State Batteries (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions:
