Thermal Runaway and Thermal Management: Toward Safe and Reliable Battery
A special issue of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lithium-ion batteries; battery energy storage system; electric vehicles; thermal management; thermal runaway; safety management; aging and failure mechanisms; states estimation; battery health assessment and lifetime prediction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to showcase manuscripts that demonstrate efficient safety and thermal management methods/hardware for safe and reliable batteries, including low cost, high accuracy, low energy consumption, good consistency in battery packs, high robustness against changes in working conditions, and good generalization.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Thermal runaway behavior of batteries in multiple application scenarios;
- Thermal runaway mechanisms and thermal propagation mitigation of battery cell/module/pack/cluster;
- High-safety and high-performance battery design;
- Prediction of the battery’s state of health and state of safety;
- Early warning methods and strategies for battery thermal runaway risk;
- Battery safety management methods, strategies, and their software/hardware implementations (from cell design to system management);
- Battery thermal management system (including but not limited to immersion liquid cooling, air cooling, cold plate cooling, phase change materials, etc.);
- Optimization of the battery’s thermal management system (including but not limited to structure, channels, operation strategies, etc.);
- Hardware implementation of a battery thermal management system.
Dr. Xiaoqing Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lithium-ion batteries
- thermal runaway
- thermal runaway mechanisms
- thermal management
- safety management
- aging and failure mechanisms
- fault diagnosis
- battery health assessment and lifetime prediction
- heat generation mechanisms and modeling
- electric vehicles (EVs)
- energy storage system
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