Challenges and Opportunities Towards Lithium-Ion Batteries
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 1761
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Interests: future batteries; chemistry; nanotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
In the modern era of digital civilization, energy storage technologies are under pressure now more than ever to be cost-effective, reliable, and capable of increasing their energy density. In such scenarios, the use of Li-ion batteries (LIBs), with their unmatched performance and their ability to continually increase their energy density, is the only avenue available for development. Despite several breakthroughs in LIBs, such as cation-disordered, partial spinels, and high-entropy ceramics, several critical issues remain to be addressed for their improved future application. Two major concerns include driving range anxiety and thermal runaways. With this challenge in mind, we invite energy researchers to contribute their work toward addressing these critical aspects, allowing us to move closer to a carbon-neutral society.
Contributions on the following topics, among others, are invited for submission to this Special Issue:
- Designing better batteries for future applications;
- In situ/ex situ characterizations;
- Theoretical understanding of LIBs;
- Mitigating voltage/capacity fading;
- Designing novel materials based on theoretical understandings;
- Reviews/surveys/progress in LIBs;
- Opinions on the road map to future advances in LIBs;
- Finding opportunities in challenges to LIBs;
- Machine learning approaches to alleviate modern issues with LIBs;
- Pushing the limits of theoretical capacity limits to LIBs.
Dr. Aditya N. Singh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Li-ion batteries
- disordered materials
- high-entropy ceramics
- density-functional theory
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