Advanced Materials for High-Performance Supercapacitors and Battery Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Rapid urbanization and modernization have demanded an urgent need for renewable energy sources and resources. Energy storage is one of the ways to address these issues. Supercapacitors (electric double layer capacitors, pseudocapacitors) have emerged as potential devices that show high power density, rapid charge–discharge, and long cyclability. Various semiconducting nanostructures materials have been developed for high-performance electrode materials. The variety of surface modifications, surface active sites, and tuning surface chemical properties can be controlled via nanoengineering. The theoretical limits of electrode materials are being investigated, for example, through DFT. Electrode materials that show dual behavior, viz. supercapacitors and batteries, are of interest for researchers. Hybrid materials and the study of their electrochemical performance also represent a potential strategy.

The present Special Issue will cover original full-length research articles and review papers on high-performance supercapacitors and battery applications. Reviews may cover conceptual advances in supercapacitors and batteries, or could be more in the form of tutorials that address specific challenges in energy storage and approaches to overcoming them. Papers may focus on the development of energy storage devices for commercialization or the development of electrode materials that are used to provide new scientific knowledge.    

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Chemical synthesis of electrode materials;
• Direct growth of nanostructures;
• Oxides, sulfides, and chalcogenides;
• Carbon materials;
• Conducting polymers;
• Nanocomposites;
• Electrochemical characteristics;
• Device fabrications;
• Supercapacitors and batteries;
• DFT;
• Hybrid materials.

Dr. Umesh T. Nakate
Prof. Dr. Manesh A. Yewale
Dr. Revan C. Ambare
Guest Editors

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