Understanding Li-Ion Batteries, Fuel Cells and Successive Technologies
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2021) | Viewed by 375
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy storage is one of the most important key technologies and requires the development of safe, durable, reliable, and efficient energy storage systems. For enhancements, it is necessary to obtain further understanding of the very complex reaction processes within batteries and fuel cells and to be able to characterize manufacturing artifacts and aging mechanisms. This requires structural and analytical investigation methods that enable information from macroscopic inspection to atomic resolution. Even when batteries and fuel cells are used under ideal physical conditions, there is a continuous decrease in performance, which limits service life. This Special Issue is focused on new insights from different perspectives into energy storage systems, which will open an avenue of significant improvements.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- New insights in the functionality of a battery and fuel cell;
- Advanced or new structural or analytic methods applied to energy-related materials;
- In situ inspection of battery and fuel cell reactions;
- Atmospheric-free inspection possibilities;
- Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence applied to battery and fuel cell characterization;
- Studies on the cathode, anode, and separator;
- Studies of the surface electrolyte interface (SEI), cathode electrolyte interface (CEI), and electrolyte;
- Diagnostics on the loss of inventory Li;
- Detection of lithium.
Dr. Ute Golla-Schindler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Analytic tools for energy materials
- Composition, structure: anode, cathode, separator
- SEI, CEI
- Electrolyte
- Lithium detection
- Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence
