Battery Safety: Recent Advances and Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

Lithium-ion batteries have been subject to indispensable momentum in light of the current mobile society with an increasingly stringent sustainability requirement for energy and the environment. Moreover, many other advanced secondary batteries are under rapid development for future industrial applications, including the Li-metal battery, the solid-state battery, the sodium-ion battery, etc. All these new chemistries have made battery safety a major obstacle for further application and commercialization. This Special Issue will cover the key topics in the research studies on battery safety behavior.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advanced experimental characterization of the battery safety behaviors;
• Battery safety evaluation and testing protocols;
• Battery internal short circuit mechanisms ;
• Novel modeling of battery safety behaviors
• Innovative design and optimization of battery cell/module/pack for safety purpose;
• Safety issues of next-generation battery chemistries, such as Si-based, Li-metal, and all-solid-state batteries.

This Special Issue also serves as a platform for researchers to report and share the state-of-the-art research results disseminated during the 2024 Battery Safety Workshop held in Columbia, USA in early August 2024.

Dr. Xiang Gao
Dr. Jun Xu
Guest Editors

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