New Energy Vehicles (NEVs)): Batteries, Fuel Cells and Energy Storage System
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lithium-ion battery safety design and management; PEM fuel cell powertrain and hydrogen systems; engine control and hybrid powertrains; energy storage and smart energy systems
Interests: electrolyte and electrode developments for rechargeable lithium ion batteries and multivalent ion batteries; synthesis and material characterization of other energy storage systems
Interests: electrified vehicles; alternative powertrains; energy storage systems; battery management; vehicle-grid-home interactions; energy management optimization
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Interests: energy storage and conversion (batteries and fuel cells); mesoscale physics and stochastics; reactive transport, materials, processing, and microstructure interactions
Interests: transport phenomena; microfluidics; electrokinetics; electrochemical systems; applied mathematics
Interests: battery thermal management; thermal energy storage; phase change heat transfer; micro/nano heat transfer; novel heat pipe
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Interests: electrochemical energy and fuel cells
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the international trend of carbon neutralization and peaking, there is consensus that NEVs are one of the most important means of achieving that goal not only for the transportation sector, but also for the power grid industry. NEVs and the power grid industry will deeply integrate for coordinated development. In the future, NEVs will play an important role in the progress of the energy revolution. A sustainable future for NEVs depends mostly on breakthrough energy storage systems, covering advanced material development, the design and manufacture of battery cells, packing technologies and smart management systems. Moreover, charging, infrastructure, and the development of energy feeding systems are important cornerstones for the large-scale penetration of NEVs, which will all facilitate the penetration of EVs and grid connection of renewable energy. The repurposing and recycling of retired power batteries are also key for ensuring the sustainable development of NEVs.
This Special Issue focuses on all the innovative technologies in the whole technological chain of power batteries, fuel cells and other energy systems with respect to sustainability, covering all the stages of the research process, including mechanisms, materials, modeling, simulation, testing and standards. The scope includes (but is not limited to) the following:
- Innovative materials for power batteries;
- Smart energy and EVs;
- Battery safety;
- Battery thermal management;
- Novel catalysts for fuel cells;
- Novel technologies for fuel cell stacks and fuel cell systems;
- Water and the thermal management of fuel cell systems;
- Energy management and control technologies for fuel cell systems;
- Advances in materials for membranes, MEA, and the bipolar plates of fuel cells;
- Degradation mechanisms for batteries and fuel cells;
- Smart battery management systems;
- Charging technologies;
- Hydrogen production and infrastructure;
- Power battery repurposing and recycling;
- Green manufacture technologies for power batteries;
- V2X (including but not limited to V2V, V2G, V2H and V2S);
- Micro-grids using batteries as energy storage systems;
- EV charging or battery swapping;
- The life cycle analysis of EVs regarding the environment and economy;
- Innovative technologies for energy feeding systems and business models for EVs.
Prof. Dr. Minggao Ouyang
Dr. Liao Chen
Prof. Dr. Xiaosong Hu
Prof. Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee
Dr. Martin Z. Bazant
Prof. Dr. Zhonghao Rao
Prof. Dr. Haijiang Wang
Prof. Dr. Fuyuan Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lithium
- battery
- fuel cell
- material
- mechanism
- thermal
- safety
- charging
- control
