Metal Oxide Coating on Li Battery: Preparation, Characterization and Application
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: closed (10 December 2023)
Special Issue Editors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, with a view to increasing the energy, power density and cyclic life of a Li battery, its electrode materials and electrolyte must be selected suitably. The energy storage mechanism in anode materials is intercalation, conversion reactions or alloying/dealloying whereas cathode materials store energy through intercalation or conversion reactions. The process is inverted once the battery is discharged where the electrochemical energy is released in the form of electric energy. The latest Li battery technology, the cell voltage, and capacities are mostly determined by the cathode materials which are also the preventive factor for Li transportation rate. The production of cathode materials hence becoming exceptionally important.
In order to consider the cathode materials and to improve thermal abuse performance, and consequently, safety would be to enlarge the thickness of the shield coating on the cathode surface to a point at which it can impede oxygen discharge at higher temperatures. The cathode surface with a sufficiently thick coating to facilitate an increase in performance would essential to be ionically and electrically conducting in case it leads to an increase in the internal cell resistance thus detrimentally impacting normal battery operation.
As the anode materials already work at the potential close to metallic lithium, increasing the total voltage of the battery depends on cathode materials. Moreover, surface reformation has been stated to be an efficient way to reduce side reactions and improve battery performance. Numerous materials have been employed as coating layers to stabilize the surface, such as Binary metal oxide, graphene oxide, and so on. In recent decades, many efforts have been expended by the lithium batteries research community to discover new cathode materials with greater electrochemical performance and, at the same time, to inspect existing cathode materials to find ways to improve their performance. In the Special Issue, we focus on the application, design and characterization of binary metal oxide coating materials in Li batteries.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include (but are not restricted to):
- Metal oxide coating cathode materials;
- Design and characterization of nano-coated lithium battery electrode;
- Application of nano electrode material coating;
- Analysis of porous nanostructures of metal oxide coatings;
- Application of carbon materials in metal oxide electrode materials;
- Design and Characterization of Polymetallic Oxides in Electrode Materials.
Prof. Dr. Peilong Xu
Prof. Dr. Yiqian Wang
Dr. Xiaoli Yang
Guest Editors
Dr. Yuling Zhao
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- metal oxide coating
- nano-coated lithium battery electrode
- electrode material coating
- polymetallic oxides in electrode materials
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