Integrated Approaches to Solid Electrolyte Development: Synthesis, Mechanics, and Data-Driven Frameworks
A special issue of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrolyte and Interfacial Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 August 2026 | Viewed by 255
Special Issue Editor
Interests: next-generation solid-state metal batteries; solid electrolytes; interface engineering; mechanical–electrochemical coupling; integrated with data-driven approaches and machine learning to accelerate solid electrolyte design and discovery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Solid electrolytes (SEs) are central to next-generation solid-state batteries (SSBs), yet their practical implementation is limited by coupled challenges in materials chemistry, mechanics, and interfacial stability. This Special Issue highlights integrated approaches to solid electrolyte development, demonstrating how synthesis strategies, mechanical properties, and data-driven frameworks can be combined to enable safe, high-energy-density SSBs.
Moving beyond ionic conductivity as a sole performance metric, this Special Issue emphasizes mechanical–electrochemical coupling, interfacial reliability, and degradation under realistic operating conditions. Contributions on oxide, sulfide, halide, hydride, and composite solid electrolytes are welcome, particularly studies linking materials design to processing, failure mechanisms, and device-level performance. In parallel, this Special Issue showcases data-driven methodologies, including machine learning, materials informatics, and physics-informed models, for accelerating solid electrolyte discovery and optimization.
By integrating experimental, theoretical, and computational perspectives, this Special Issue aims to advance our mechanistic and predictive understanding of solid electrolytes and to foster cross-disciplinary strategies for practical solid-state metal batteries.
Suggested Topics (7):
- Synthesis and processing of advanced SEs;
- Mechanical properties and deformation behavior of SEs;
- Mechanical–electrochemical coupling and transport mechanisms;
- Interface engineering in SSBs;
- Degradation, failure, and reliability of SEs;
- Composite and hybrid SE architecture;
- Data-driven design, machine learning, and materials informatics for SEs
Dr. Eric Jianfeng Cheng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solid electrolytes (SEs)
- solid-state ionics
- solid-state batteries (SSBs)
- interface engineering
- mechanical–electrochemical coupling
- data-driven design
- machine learning (ML)
- materials informatics
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