Advanced Energy Materials: Synthetic Strategies and Performance Optimization

Dear Colleagues,

Advanced energy materials underpin batteries, electrolyzers, and other energy technologies, yet performance gains often stall when synthesis is not scalable or when interfaces degrade under realistic operating conditions. This Special Issue, titled “Advanced Energy Materials: Synthetic Strategies and Performance Optimization”, seeks high-quality contributions that connect synthetic strategy, materials processing, and performance engineering from materials to devices.

We welcome original research, prospective, and reviews on controllable synthesis/processing (solution, solid-state, vapor-phase, electrodeposition), defect and interface engineering, multiscale assembly, and process integration/intensification for manufacturing. Contributions leveraging modeling and simulation to guide design, scale-up, and systems analysis (e.g., techno-economic) are particularly encouraged.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advanced electrodes and catalysts for ORR/OER/HER/CO₂RR/N₂RR;
• Batteries (lithium battery, zinc battery, metal-air battery, sodium battery, etc.);
• Solid and gel electrolytes;
• Perovskite solar cells (PSCs);
• Scalable electrode fabrication;
• Operando/in situ characterization;
• Durability/safety evaluation using practical metrics (high loading, lean electrolyte, wide-temperature operation).

Dr. Siyuan Gao
Dr. Jianzhao Liu
Guest Editors

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