Batteries Best Paper Award—Winners Announced

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Batteries 2023 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January to 31 December 2023, in Batteries (ISSN: 2313-0105) were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation by the Award Committee of the Editorial Board, based on the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, five winners were selected.

First Prize: CHF 500 and a paper published for free in Batteries

Article:
“State of Charge and Temperature Joint Estimation Based on Ultrasonic Reflection Waves for Lithium-Ion Battery Applications”
by Runnan Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Chuanyu Sun, Songyuan Yang, Yong Tian and Jindong Tian
Batteries 2023, 9(6), 335; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9060335
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-0105/9/6/335

Second Prize: CHF 200 and a paper published for free in Batteries

Article:
“Design, Properties, and Manufacturing of Cylindrical Li-Ion Battery Cells—A Generic Overview”
by Sabri Baazouzi, Niklas Feistel, Johannes Wanner, Inga Landwehr, Alexander Fill and Kai Peter Birke
Batteries 2023, 9(6), 309; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9060309
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-0105/9/6/309

Review:
“Battery State of Health Estimate Strategies: From Data Analysis to End-Cloud Collaborative Framework”
by Kaiyi Yang, Lisheng Zhang, Zhengjie Zhang, Hanqing Yu, Wentao Wang, Mengzheng Ouyang, Cheng Zhang, Qi Sun, Xiaoyu Yan, Shichun Yang and Xinhua Liu
Batteries 2023, 9(7), 351; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9070351
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-0105/9/7/351

Third Prize: 100 CHF and a paper published for free in Batteries

Article:
“Trends in Automotive Battery Cell Design: A Statistical Analysis of Empirical Data”
by Steffen Link, Christoph Neef and Tim Wicke
Batteries 2023, 9(5), 261; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9050261
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-0105/9/5/261

Review:
“Challenges and Future Prospects of the MXene-Based Materials for Energy Storage Applications”
by Svitlana Nahirniak, Apurba Ray and Bilge Saruhan
Batteries 2023, 9(2), 126; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9020126
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-0105/9/2/126

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Batteries 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for their continued support.

Batteries Editorial Office