Structure and Component-Designed Functional Materials for Electrochemical Application
A special issue of Inorganics (ISSN 2304-6740). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy storage materials; metal oxides and sulfides; wearable supercapacitors; electrode-electrolyte interface regulation; advanced electrodes; machine learning; structural modification; functional composite; electrolyte gels; electrolyte activity; synergy between theory and experiment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Current advancements in electrochemical energy storage devices, particularly innovations in constructing composite and hybrid materials and biomass carbon materials, are well-positioned to meet the demands of future carbon-neutral energy systems. Their uniquely tunable structures, redox activity, and exceptional stability make them indispensable for applications in enhanced energy storage and conversion systems. One of the challenges is to increase the active sites on the electroactive materials since heterogeneous electron transfer processes occur only at the interface between the solid electrode and electrolyte. The advancements will rely on atomic-level modification and electrode–electrolyte interface regulation in material design, encouraging researchers to innovate new strategies such as doping engineering, electrode/electrolyte modification, and constructing heterojunction structures. Structure component design and theoretical calculation constitute a feasible strategy to improve energy storage performance.
This Special Issue covers various strategies for structure- and component-designed functional materials in electrochemical energy systems towards achieving high performance in terms of activity, stability, capacity and so on. Contributions are invited that have a broad thematic scope, including material synthesis, structure design, interface regulation, mechanistic studies, electrochemical performance evaluation, theoretical calculation and simulation for advanced materials.
Dr. Jing Xu
Prof. Dr. Yibing Xie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hybrid/composite materials
- derived materials
- advanced structure materials
- biomass carbon materials
- electrochemical
- energy storage and conversion
- electrode and electrolyte
- interface regulation
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