Frontiers in Sustainable Battery Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Batteries, as one of the most prominent technologies in human history, have played a great role in our lives since their initial emergence as a voltaic pile in 1800. Looking back in the history, the development of types of batteries, such as lead-acid batteries, alkaline batteries, lithium batteries, metal-air batteries and beyond, show evolutionary significance in terms of their specific energies/energy densities, reliability, and cost. In the future, batteries will be sought with higher densities for next-generation application that are safe, have a long lifetime, and are reasonably priced. The development of novel materials, including anodes, cathodes, electrolytes, and separators, is of utmost importance to meet the demands of high-performance batteries for sustainable long-term energy storage and transportation applications. This Special Issue aims to collect articles that contribute to the advancement of materials for battery systems, including the development of novel materials, interfacing different components (between electrolyte/electrode), and an understanding of material evolution upon cycling. This Special Issue is open for reviews, articles, and communications for all kinds of batteries, such as lithium batteries, sodium batteries, zinc-ion batteries, potassium ion batteries, redox-flow batteries, and so on. Topics of interest could be include but are not limited to the following:

• Cathode and anode synthesis;
• Electrolyte design and formulation;
• Separator processing;
• Material scale-up and manufacturing;
• A mechanical understanding of material performance;
• Computational studies for material design and understanding.

Dr. Xia Cao
Prof. Dr. Lei Du
Dr. Shuaifeng Lou
Guest Editors

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• batteries
• materials
• cathode
• anode
• electrolyte
• separator