Electrolyte Materials for Advanced Batteries
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Advanced Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2021) | Viewed by 657
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Batteries are essential energy storage devices for electric and hybrid transportation, in mobile electronics, and for balancing intermittent supply from renewable energy sources (load leveling). In transportation, fully electric vehicles already have a notable and rapidly growing market share in land transportation, but electrification is also emerging in maritime transport and even in aviation. In electric transportation, energy and power of high density are expected from batteries. Furthermore, mobile electronics require batteries with demanding energy densities to maintain the compact size and light weight of the products with increasing power consumption. Small autonomous devices, such as smart cards, have their own dimensional and safety requirements that are optimally met with all-solid-state microbatteries.
Battery chemistry and the materials within are selected by the requirements of the application. Li-ion has been dominating in applications that require high energy density. Li-S, Li-air, Na-ion, Mg-ion, and other alternative battery chemistries are developed in addition to Li-ion, to further improve the energy density and to meet the cost, safety and sustainability issues related to the Li-ion technology. Solid electrolytes offer improved safety but currently at the cost of lower ionic conductivity, in comparison to the liquid electrolytes. Common to all battery chemistries, understanding the phenomena and correlations within the materials and at their interfaces is a requirement for the development of better and safer batteries.
This Special Issue focuses on materials and phenomena related to electrolytes and electrode-electrolyte interfaces of the various modern battery technologies in research. We warmly welcome submissions of manuscripts reporting the following: development of electrolyte materials (liquid, polymer, and solid) and electrode coatings, as well as material characterization (in operando and ex operando), and computational modeling of the phenomena.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Nanoenergy Advances.
Dr. Ville Miikkulainen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Li-ion electrolyte
- Na-ion electrolyte
- Mg-ion electrolyte
- Li-S electrolyte
- Li-air electrolyte
- Hybrid-ion electrolyte
- Electrode-electrolyte interface
- Battery electrode coating
- Solid-state electrolyte
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