Experiment and Simulation of Energy Storage Systems and Renewable Energy Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the significant progress on emerging experimental techniques and high computing power over the past decades, we can design physical chemistry experiments, utilizing experiment-enhanced simulations to capture the complex multiscale and multiphysics phenomena in advanced energy systems with unprecedented sophistication and details at discrete temporal and spatial scales. Successful cases and examples are demonstrated in diverse technologies ranging from energy storage to conversion, catalysis, and optoelectronics. Although promising, it is urgent to address the dilemma faced by researchers to compensate for the trade-off between experimental complexity and computational cost, with current energy systems becoming more integrated and complicated by finer-scale effects essential to be experimentally/computationally captured so as to enable a comprehensive understanding of the above systems. To exploit and achieve the goal of accurate predictive capabilities, the innovation of mathematical and computational modeling is essential, as well as experimentation in electrochemical systems.

This Special Issue aims to investigate multiscale and multiphysics phenomena in advanced energy systems and collect major advances in experimental and modeling techniques, potential topics including, but not limited to:

• In situ and in operando investigation of battery degradation;
• Synthesis of materials for interfacial layers or coatings;
• Mechanical–electrochemical–thermal simulation of fuel cells;
• Mesoscale phase-field modeling of MEMS and NEMS;
• Modeling for electrochemistry of semiconductor;
• Synthesis of two-dimensional nanomaterials for supercapacitors.

Original research papers, as well as review articles, are welcome.

Dr. Lin Liu
Dr. Kai Sun
Dr. James J. Wu
Guest Editors

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