Materials Designs for Non-Lithium Metal Ion Batteries: Beyond Lithium Ion Batteries
A special issue of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105). This special issue belongs to the section "Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 3080
Special Issue Editor
Interests: designing and synthesizing various nanostructured materials; application of nanomaterials in energy storage and conversion fields; batteries; capacitors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The commercialization of lithium ion batteries (LIBs) has revolutionized every aspect of our lifestyle; LIBs are currently the most extensively used power source for various applications, such as portable electronics and electric vehicles. Unfortunately, lithium sources are scarce and unevenly distributed, such that they may not be sufficient to meet surging global demand. In response to this concern, non-lithium metal ion (Na, K, Ca, Al, Zn and Mg) batteries have been spotlighted recently as a viable alternative to LIBs because of their reasonable price, near complete inexhaustibility, and similar storage mechanism to lithium. However, the development of electrode materials for these battery systems is still challenging and far from satisfactory. Thus, it is of significant interest to develop appropriate electrode materials for high-performance non-lithium metal ion batteries in the near future.
This MDPI Special Issue on “Materials Designs for Non-Lithium Metal Ion Batteries: Beyond Lithium Ion Batteries” will focus on rational design toward high-performance electrode materials for non-lithium metal ion (Na, K, Ca, Al, Zn and Mg) batteries.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Non-lithium metal ion batteries;
- Na-ion batteries;
- K-ion batteries;
- Al-ion batteries;
- Ca-ion batteries;
- Mg-ion batteries;
- Zn-ion batteries;
- Design of high-performance electrode materials;
- Alkali metal ion storage mechanism;
- Electrochemical performance optimization;
- Electrode material failure;
- Materials synthesis and processing;
- Modeling electrode materials.
Dr. Seung-Keun Park
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- non-lithium metal ion batteries
- Na-ion batteries
- K-ion batteries
- Al-ion batteries
- Ca-ion batteries
- Mg-ion batteries
- Zn-ion batteries
- design of high-performance electrode materials
- alkali metal ion storage mechanism
- electrochemical performance optimization
- electrode material failure
- materials synthesis and processing
- modeling electrode materials
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