Advanced Carbon-Based Materials for 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 (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 9590
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There has been an ever-increasing and urgent demand for high-performance energy storage devices to power the wants and needs of modern society. Among various energy storage technologies, rechargeable batteries such as alkaline/multivalent metal-ion batteries and metal-air/sulfur batteries, have attracted worldwide attention, since they could potentially fulfill high-energy-density, high-efficiency, and low-emission requirements simultaneously. Benefiting from the unique merits of low cost, high electrical conductivity, and superior chemical stability, carbon materials play an important role in rechargeable batteries. On the one hand, carbon materials can be directly employed as electrode materials for energy storage via ionic intercalation and/or adsorption. On the other hand, carbon materials can be composited with other active materials, including metals and their compounds, elemental sulfur, metallic lithium/sodium/zinc, etc., for synergistical energy storage with enhanced performance. Moreover, carbon materials can also be used as conductive additives to improve the electron transport efficiency of electrodes. This Special Issue will focus on these advanced carbon-based materials that can promote the development of rechargeable batteries.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Graphitic carbons;
- Soft carbons;
- Hard carbons;
- Porous carbons;
- Carbon aerogels;
- Polymer-derived carbons;
- Biomass-derived carbons;
- Carbon hybrids.
Dr. Shaohong Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anode material
- cathode material
- conductive additive
- sulfur host
- lithium host
- electrocatalyst
- energy storage mechanism
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