Feature Papers in Battery Mechanisms and Fundamental Electrochemistry Aspects

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to contribute a research or review paper for this Topical Collection.

The development and production of sustainable and efficient batteries is a strategic imperative in both the mobility sector and grid-based energy storage systems. The greatest current challenge is not only understanding the battery mechanism but also controlling and designing electrode materials, interfaces, and interphases for the development of ultra-performing, smart, and sustainable batteries.

This section comprises papers in which electrochemical techniques, advanced characterization tools and computational methodologies are employed, singularly or in combination, to disentangle the complex electrochemistry occurring at both electrodes; this is in order to evidence the electronic and ionic processes occurring at various interfaces, thus providing a picture of the complex dynamics. Therefore, these papers report the fundamental science influencing the electrochemistry and redox activity at electrodes, reaction mechanisms, failure mechanisms, and advanced in situ and ex situ surface/interface/interphase and bulk analysis techniques.

Topics of interest of this Topical Collection include the following topics related to the research, development, and application of batteries:

• Fundamentals of battery electrochemistry;
• Kinetics of the intercalation and conversion reaction;
• Reaction mechanism and dynamics of electrochemical processes;
• Electrochemical-based methods;
• Models and methods for the characterization of interfaces in batteries;
• Evolution of SEI and CEI;
• Computational methods;
• Methods for the identification of interphases;
• Analyses of electrode materials and analysis of interphases;
• Advanced in situ and ex situ characterization techniques;
• Post-mortem analysis of batteries;
• Timescale and length-scale methods;
• Analytical methods for the study of the electron and ion movement in batteries;
• Synchrotron-based methods;
• Structural and electronic reversibility in batteries;
• Chemometric methods for the study of the operando dataset in batteries.

Prof. Dr. Marco Giorgetti
Collection Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Batteries is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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