Metallic Materials and Interfaces for High-Performance Batteries
A Special Issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701) belonging to the section "Metallic Functional Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 18
Editors
Interests: aqueous electrolytes; zinc-ion batteries; sodium-ion batteries; electrocatalysis; electrochemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metallic materials play a central role in the development of high-energy, high-power, and long-life battery systems. From alkali-metal and multivalent-metal anodes to metallic current collectors, hosts, protective layers, and interfacial regulators, their structure, chemistry, and electrochemical behavior strongly determine battery performance, safety, and durability. However, their practical use in batteries is often limited by uncontrolled nucleation and growth, dendrite formation, unstable solid-electrolyte interphase formation, corrosion, parasitic reactions, mechanical degradation, and poor reversibility during repeated plating and stripping.
This Special Issue, “Metallic Materials and Interfaces for High-Performance Batteries”, welcomes the submission of original research articles, reviews, and perspectives focusing on metallic materials for lithium, sodium, zinc, magnesium, calcium, lithium–sulfur, and other emerging battery systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, metal nucleation, deposition, stripping, alloying/dealloying reactions, SEI formation, interfacial reactions and interactions, dendrite suppression, corrosion/passivation, metal fabrication and surface modification, 3D metal hosts and current collectors, artificial interphases, electrolyte–metal compatibility, mechanical and morphological evolution, and failure mechanisms. Studies combining advanced characterization, operando/in situ analysis, theoretical modeling, electrochemical analysis, machine learning, and practical cell validation are particularly encouraged. Contributions that provide fundamental understanding of or innovative materials design strategies for stable, reversible, and scalable metal-based batteries are highly welcome.
Dr. Ziqing Wang
Dr. Kenta Kawashima
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lithium metal batteries
- zinc metal batteries
- sodium metal batteries
- lithium–sulfur batteries
- solid-state batteries
- calcium metal batteries
- solid electrolyte interphase
- nucleation
- metal deposition
- advanced characterization
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