Advanced Battery Safety Technologies: From Materials to Systems

A special issue of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105). This special issue belongs to the section "Battery Performance, Ageing, Reliability and Safety".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 399

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Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Interests: battery modeling (thermal, mechanical, electrochemical, and degradation); thermal runaway

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Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Interests: novel electrodes; failure mechanisms; Na-ion; electrolyte design
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Interests: energy and electrochemistry with a broad spectrum of industrial application
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Department of Applied Engineering Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The world's growing need for energy storage, fueled by electric cars and renewable energy, demands faster progress in battery technology, especially in making them safer. This Special Issue, "Advanced Battery Safety Technologies: From Materials to Systems", is essential to tackle this challenge. Covering everything from the basic science of materials (with a focus on safety) to how batteries are designed as systems, including how they're modeled, what makes them fail, thermal control, designing for safety, and using safe and sustainable materials, this publication will encourage experts from different fields to work together and speed up breakthroughs in battery safety. It will be a key resource for researchers, engineers, and policymakers, helping create safer, more efficient, and eco-friendly batteries.

This Special Issue will showcase the latest research across the whole battery process, from making new materials with inherent safety to designing smart battery management systems with advanced control and improving manufacturing with strict safety rules. By bringing together all this safety-focused knowledge, the journal aims to inspire new ideas and guide future research, ultimately leading to a truly safe and sustainable energy future. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Battery modeling;
  • Battery failure modes;
  • Thermal management;
  • Safety of battery systems;
  • Battery system design optimization;
  • Sustainable battery materials;
  • Next-gen battery material safety;
  • Battery management systems;
  • Safety in battery manufacturing.

Dr. Anthony Bombik
Dr. Lin Ma
Dr. Jun Xu
Dr. Xiaochuan Lu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • battery modeling
  • battery failure modes
  • thermal management
  • safety of battery systems
  • battery system design optimization
  • sustainable battery materials
  • next-gen battery material safety
  • battery management systems
  • safety in battery manufacturing

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Research Progress on Risk Prevention and Control Technology for Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Storage Power Stations: A Review
by Weihang Pan
Batteries 2025, 11(8), 301; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries11080301 - 6 Aug 2025
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Amidst the background of accelerated global energy transition, the safety risk of lithium-ion battery energy storage systems, especially the fire hazard, has become a key bottleneck hindering their large-scale application, and there is an urgent need to build a systematic prevention and control [...] Read more.
Amidst the background of accelerated global energy transition, the safety risk of lithium-ion battery energy storage systems, especially the fire hazard, has become a key bottleneck hindering their large-scale application, and there is an urgent need to build a systematic prevention and control program. This paper focuses on the fire characteristics and thermal runaway mechanism of lithium-ion battery energy storage power stations, analyzing the current situation of their risk prevention and control technology across the dimensions of monitoring and early warning technology, thermal management technology, and fire protection technology, and comparing and analyzing the characteristics of each technology from multiple angles. Building on this analysis, this paper summarizes the limitations of the existing technologies and puts forward prospective development paths, including the development of multi-parameter coupled monitoring and warning technology, integrated and intelligent thermal management technology, clean and efficient extinguishing agents, and dynamic fire suppression strategies, aiming to provide solid theoretical support and technical guidance for the precise risk prevention and control of lithium-ion battery storage power stations. Full article
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