Thermal Management in Lithium-Ion and Emerging Batteries: Latest Advances and Prospects

Dear Colleagues,

The rapidly expanding battery market presents an urgent requirement for reliable, efficient, and affordable thermal management and protection solutions. These solutions are crucial to improve the cycle life and performance, as well as to mitigate the risk of thermal runaway and catastrophic failures in battery packs. Addressing these pressing needs is of the utmost importance for the power electronics, electric vehicle, and battery industries. By enhancing the safety of battery packs, we can facilitate the widespread adoption of batteries in energy-intensive applications such as electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage systems. In addition, a higher battery cycle life improves the long-term cost–benefit of a battery electric vehicle or energy storage system. Advanced thermal management strategies can also improve performance, such as fast charging and aggressive discharges across a large temperature band, which further supports battery technology adaptation. Therefore, there is a critical imperative to develop robust, efficient, and cost-effective thermal management strategies that ensure the performance, integrity, and stability of battery systems.

In light of the rapid growth witnessed in the electric vehicle and rechargeable battery markets, this Special Issue, entitled “Thermal Management in Lithium-Ion and Emerging Batteries: Latest Advances and Prospects”, presents an opportune platform to explore diverse thermal management technologies. It specifically focuses on their application in battery and electronics systems for transportation applications, including passenger cars, trucks, buses, locomotives, boats, aircraft, and beyond, encompassing both established industry practices and emerging solutions for future advancements. By examining conventional approaches alongside cutting-edge innovations, this timely collection of articles aims to address the evolving demands of the field and foster insights into effective thermal management strategies.

We encourage contributions from diverse global stakeholders to foster a comprehensive and inclusive dialogue. Valuable insights and expertise from academic institutions, industry organizations, and national laboratories are highly valued and encouraged. Both experimental studies and numerical simulations are welcomed. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Assessment of industry approaches and emerging advancements;
• Single-phase cooling (passive, direct active, indirect active, and hybrid);
• Multi-phase cooling (phase change materials, evaporative cooling, immersion/submerged cooling);
• Innovative cooling materials and structures;
• Advanced sensors, thermal control, and fault detection;
• Battery materials and designs with improved thermal properties;
• Strategies to mitigate thermal runaway and propagation;
• Cutting-edge models to gain insights into thermal-related degradation mechanisms;
• New mechanistic models to understand degradation caused by thermal issues;
• Fusion of machine learning algorithms to enhance the precision and efficiency of detection and prediction;
• Extreme conditions such as extremely fast charge and low temperatures.

Dr. Xianglin Li
Dr. Chuanbo Yang
Dr. Prahit Dubey
Guest Editors

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• Lithium-ion batteries
• rechargeable batteries
• thermal management
• thermal runaway
• battery safety
• advanced cooling systems

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