Designing Sustainable Sodium/Zinc Batteries for the Future
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: 16 July 2025 | Viewed by 234
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rechargeable battery; electrochemistry; DFT; solid-state electrolytes
Interests: sustainable batteries; interface/interphase design; operando characterization; simulation/machine learning
Interests: redox flow batteries; separator; supercapacitors; conjugated polymer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the demand for sustainable energy storage solutions grows, batteries based on earth-abundant elements, typically like sodium and zinc, offer promising alternatives to traditional lithium-ion technology. This Special Issue, “Designing Sustainable Sodium/Zinc Batteries for the Future”, seeks to gather groundbreaking research on developing, optimizing, and understanding batteries based on these abundant materials. By addressing key challenges in materials design, interface engineering, electrolyte optimization, and degradation mechanisms, we aim to advance battery systems that are both environmentally friendly and scalable. We welcome studies exploring cathode and anode materials, solid and liquid electrolytes, interface design, advanced characterization, multi-scale modeling, and the use of machine learning for battery aging prediction and recycling optimization.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Development of cathode and anode materials using abundant elements, typically like sodium and zinc.
- Design of solid-state and liquid electrolytes, including organic and aqueous systems, for sustainable battery technologies.
- Interface engineering for enhancing life cycle, ionic conductivity, and prevent dendrite formation.
- Mechanistic studies to better understand storage and transport processes in abundant-element batteries.
- Advanced characterization techniques to monitor and analyze material changes and interface stability during cycling.
- Multi-scale computational modeling to optimize battery performance and address degradation challenges.
- Machine learning applications for predicting battery aging, failure modes, and recycling pathways.
- Innovations in recycling processes and circular economy approaches for sustainable battery life-cycle management.
We invite researchers working on sustainable battery technologies with abundant materials to contribute to this Special Issue, aiming to advance eco-friendly and scalable energy storage solutions.
Dr. Zaichun Liu
Dr. Yuqi Li
Prof. Dr. Faxing Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable batteries
- sodium/zinc batteries
- earth-abundant materials
- cathode and anode development
- solid and liquid electrolytes
- interface engineering
- redox flow batteries
- multi-scale modeling
- machine learning for battery degradation
- battery recycling
- advanced characterization
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