Design, Synthesis and Application of Electrode Materials and Electrolytes for Metal-Ion Batteries
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 423
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, the substantial demand as a result of the rapid growth of portable electronics, electric vehicles, and grid-scale stationary energy storage markets dramatically stimulates the development of rechargeable batteries toward the direction of high energy density and high power density. Meanwhile, due to the ever-increasing demand for carbon neutrality and sustainability, the development of green, sustainable, and environmentally benign energy storage devices is critical. Among the various energy storage devices, lithium ion batteries have attracted considerable research interest from both academia and industry because of their high energy density and high cyclic stability; sodium and potassium ion batteries stand out as promising alternatives beyond lithium ion batteries due to their unique advantages, such as low cost, large abundance and standard redox potential that is comparable to that of lithium; the advantages of high volumetric energy density, high sustainability, and high safety of multivalent ion batteries such as magnesium, aluminum, and zinc ion batteries make them ideal candidates for cost-effective and environmentally benign energy storage devices. Nevertheless, the merits of each kind of metal ion battery cannot be realized without the employment of novel electrode materials and electrolytes.
This Special Issue will focus on but not be limited to research on electrode materials and electrolytes for Li/Na/K/Mg/Al/Zn ion batteries. We cordially invite researchers to contribute original research or review articles in this area.
Dr. Kaiqiang Qin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Li/Na/K/Mg/Al/Zn ion batteries
- electrolyte
- organic materials
- inorganic materials
- carbon mate-rials
- energy storage
- nanomaterials
- Li/Na/K metal anode
- multivalent ion batteries
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