Symmetry and Structural Effects in Advanced Energy Storage Materials
A Special Issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994) belonging to the section "F: Engineering and Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 379
Editors
Interests: hydrogen; fuel cells; energy storage; renewable energy; material science; battery; hydrogen storage; electrochemical characterisation of materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The performance of advanced energy-storage materials is strongly governed by their structural characteristics, including crystal arrangement, defect chemistry, phase stability, ion-transport pathways, and morphology evolution. Such structural features, including local ordering and symmetry-related effects, often determine reaction mechanisms, kinetics, and long-term stability in hydrogen-storage materials and battery systems. Understanding these relationships is essential for the development of next-generation energy-storage technologies.
This Special Issue focuses on the structural behaviour of hydrogen-storage materials, metal and complex hydrides, solid-state systems, and advanced battery chemistries. Advanced battery chemistries, including metal-ion and anode-free battery systems, are explicitly within the scope of this Special Issue. We welcome studies addressing structural transformations, symmetry breaking, phase transitions, lattice distortions, and nanoscale ordering, as well as modelling approaches linking structural properties to thermodynamic, kinetic and electrochemical performance.
Both experimental and theoretical contributions are encouraged, covering materials synthesis, structural and spectroscopic characterization, computational modelling, electrochemical performance studies and phase-transition analysis.
We hope this Special Issue will provide new insights into how structural principles—including symmetry-related aspects—can guide the design of innovative, high-performance energy-storage materials.
Dr. Ana Vassileva Borissova
Dr. Klaus Lieutenant
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- symmetry in materials
- structural effects
- symmetry breaking
- phase transitions
- hydrogen storage materials
- metal and complex hydrides
- solid-state materials
- metal-ion batteries
- anode-free batteries
- electrochemical performance
- thermodynamic and kinetic modelling
- advanced energy storage systems
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