Development, Application, and Characterization of New Electrode Materials for Advanced Batteries

Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of new electrode materials for advanced batteries, by taking into account both developments and applications. Synthesis strategies and applications for different chemistries including sodium ion and multivalent technologies are welcome.

This Special Issue also provides responses to scientific questions by adopting the most suitable technique for battery characterization using the peculiar characteristics of X-rays. Both conventional laboratory-based methods and large-scale facilities such as synchrotrons will be covered. The selectivity characteristic of the X-ray range—in both soft and hard domains—permits us to check, for instance, the electronic structure of selected atomic species; the local and the average structure of the electrode materials can be explored by using absorption techniques. Scattering of the X-rays is widely used to give details on the crystal structure modification upon cycling in operando modality, for instance, in layered NMC and LMFP cathodes. X-ray microscopy is also used to explore the surface conditions and inhomogeneities of the metal oxidation state in aged electrodes.

Researchers working in these fields are strongly encouraged to submit a contribution.

• LIBs, SIBs, multivalent chemistries;
• Synthesis and characterization;
• Electrode/electrolyte interface;
• Electrode intercalation mechanism and secondary reactions;
• X-ray diffraction, SAXS, WAXS;
• EXAFS, XANES, X-Ray Microscopy;
• Operando and ex situ experiments;
• Photoelectron Spectroscopy.

Dr. Marco Giorgetti
Dr. Giuliana Aquilanti
Guest Editors

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• electrode mechanism
• electronic and structural modifications
• interface and interphase analysis
• SEI
• CEI
• degradation mechanism
• oxidation state
• Jahn–Teller effects