Advances in Battery Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Rechargeable batteries have become essential components in our daily lives. During recent decades, their applications have been rapidly expanded from portable electronic devices to electric vehicles, drones, large-scale energy storage systems, and electric aircrafts, which are under development. In particular, the relatively new and emerging applications require much higher performance standards—in terms of energy density, power, cycle life, and safety—than that which commercialized state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can provide. The materials comprising the batteries inherently determine performances, primarily the cathodes, anodes, electrolytes, and separators. During the last three decades, vigorous developments of battery materials have significantly improved battery performances, and further developments are under way.  

On the other hand, during the last decade, post-lithium-ion batteries have received considerable attention due to safety concerns of LIBs, uneven distribution of lithium resources on the Earth’s crust, and the demand for higher energy density. Intense research activities are underway to develop all-solid-state batteries, Li-S batteries, and non-lithium-based batteries, including zinc-, sodium-, potassium-, magnesium-, and calcium-ion batteries.  

For this Topical Collection of Batteries, we warmly welcome the submission of original research articles or reviews on topics related to advances in battery materials, including synthesis, processes, physicochemical characterization, computational analysis, and mechanism analysis. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Synthesis and processing studies on cathode and anode materials for LIBs, Li-S, Na-ion, K-ion, Zn-ion, Mg-ion, and Ca-ion batteries;
• Structural and morphological analysis of electrode materials;
• Electrochemical performance studies of electrode materials;
• Electrochemical reaction mechanism studies;
• Spectroscopic studies on electrode materials;
• Theoretical and computational studies on electrode materials;
• Physicochemical characterizations of electrode materials.

Prof. Dr. Seung-Tae Hong
Collection Editor

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