Advanced Experimental and Modeling Methods for Building Better Batteries
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 171
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The current widespread and successful application of lithium-ion batteries is a convincing evidence for a potential pivotal role of the rechargeable batteries in the global energy transition. The international renewable energy agency predicts that the share of solar photovoltaics and wind in the global electricity mix would exceed 50% by 2050. The electrification of the transport is another aspect of the energy transition and 160 million electric vehicles are expected by 2030. The current presence of battery storage in transport and stationary applications, however, is rather limited given the price premium and technical limitations such as driving range or charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.
The battery literature is dominated by the material research towards higher energy and more sustainable active materials and very less attention is dedicated to the other important aspects such as design, processing, aging, safety, cost analysis, recycling, etc. Such an imbalance can result into a very slow technological maturation and penetration of the next generation battery chemistries to the application market.
The purpose of this special issue is to contribute in filling the abovementioned gap in the battery literature. We would like to collect original high impact papers addressing the following aspects of battery technologies including but not limited to the lithium-ion chemistry:
- Advanced formulation methods for high energy/power porous electrodes
- Optimization of the slurry preparation, coating, and drying steps
- Energy and cost analysis of the cell production
- Recycling of the cell and second-life repurposing
- Aging results under representative duty cycles
- Modeling of battery processing steps (e.g. electrode coating, drying, etc.)
- Techno-economic analysis and LCA
- Advanced in-situ methods for state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation.
- Safety and abuse tests
- Experiment and modeling of fast charge for battery electric vehicles
Prof. Dr. Momo Safari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- in-situ measurement of SOC and SOH
- battery safety
- fast charge
- battery aging
- porous electrodes
- techno-economic modeling
- physics-based modeling
- advanced characterization
- recycling
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