Advances in Cathode Materials for Lithium Rechargeable Batteries

Dear Colleagues,

Li-ion batteries (LIBs) are a pervasive technology in today’s society. While they were introduced in the early 1990s for use in portable electronic devices, their application has migrated to transportation and grid, for which the demand for lower cost, safer, and higher performing LIB materials is ever-increasing. In particular, new cathode materials are crucial as the cathode is currently the most expensive and the heaviest component in the batteries. Moreover, conventional cathode materials contain expensive and non-abundant transition metals (TMs), particularly Co, rendering the current LIBs, which lack sustainability for large-scale applications. Therefore, there exists a critical demand to develop and understand advanced Li-ion cathodes with high performance and a low cost.

We hope that the Special Issue will provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge in Advanced Cathode Materials for Lithium Rechargeable Batteries, opening a new avenue in LIB development.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Co-free cathode materials;
• Ni-rich-layered cathode materials;
• Li-rich-layered and disordered-rocksalt cathode materials;
• High-voltage oxide/phosphate cathodes;
• Surface modification of advanced cathodes;
• Single-crystal cathode materials;
• Recycling of Li-ion cathode materials;
• In situ characterization of cathode materials;
• Ab initio calculations of advanced cathode materials;
• Electrolytes for high-voltage cathodes.

Authors are invited and welcome to submit original research papers, reviews, and short communications.

Dr. Jinhyuk Lee
Guest Editor

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• Co-free cathodes
• Ni-rich-layered cathodes
• Li-rich-layered and disordered-rocksalt cathodes
• High-voltage oxide/phosphate cathodes
• Surface modification of advanced cathodes
• Single-crystal cathode materials
• Recycling of Li-ion cathodes
• In situ characterization of cathode materials
• Ab initio calculations of cathode materials
• Electrolytes for high-voltage cathodes