Advanced Coatings Used in Batteries and Electrodes
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synthesis and mechanism analysis of lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery materials; construction of all-solid-state electrolytes; supercapacitor electrode materials; nanomaterials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced coatings techniques play a critical role in improving battery performance, extending lifespan, and ensuring structural stability in batteries and electrode materials. Applying a nanoscale or submicron protective layer on the surface of electrode materials can effectively suppress side reactions, enhance interfacial stability, and prevent degradation caused by direct contact between the electrolyte and active materials. Such coatings help resist structural collapse and metal dissolution under high voltage rates, alleviate volume expansion during charge–discharge cycles, and ultimately improve cycling stability. Advanced coating technologies have also been utilized in solid-state batteries to address issues such as poor solid–solid interfacial contact and limited ion conductivity.
At present, advanced coatings methods enable precise control over the thickness, composition, and uniformity of coatings, allowing for more effective tuning of interfacial properties. These techniques can create dense and highly uniform ultrathin coatings without compromising the bulk structure of the electrode, thereby enhancing interfacial stability and improving both electron and ion transport efficiency. Coatings prepared using these advanced technologies not only enhance the chemical resistance and thermal stability of the materials but also enable the incorporation of functional structures, such as ion-selective layers or self-healing interfaces, thereby further promoting the development of the next generation of high-performance batteries.
This Special Issue serves as a platform for our colleagues to discuss the following topics:
- The latest developments in advanced coating strategies and methods.
- Improving the performance of lithium-ion batteries and next-generation ion batteries based on advanced coating technologies.
- Mechanistic analysis of coating-based strategies.
- Application of coatings in various functional electronic devices and their feasibility analysis and verification.
- Application of advanced coating technologies in the manufacture and research of circuits, power systems, and microelectronics.
- The use of coating methods for various electrode materials, such as atomic layer deposition (ALD), sol–gel method, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), electrospinning coating, liquid phase self-assembly, etc.
- Computational simulation and other tools help the analysis of advanced coating technology applications in batteries and electrodes.
Dr. Hongbin Liu
Dr. Yue Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced coating technology
- protective modification
- coating encapsulation
- electrode materials
- electronic devices
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