New Insights into Lithium-Ion Batteries: Technologies and Challenges
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Sustainable Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2025 | Viewed by 119
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Interests: electrochemical energy systems; batteries; fuel cells; flow batteries; heat and mass transfer; physics-based modeling
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Dear Colleagues,
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are pivotal to modern energy storage systems, powering everything from consumer electronics to electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage solutions. Despite their widespread use and advancements, LIBs still face significant challenges related to safety, performance, cost, and sustainability. This Special Issue invites cutting-edge research and review articles that provide novel insights into the technologies, innovations, and challenges facing LIB development and deployment.
We seek contributions from both academia and industry, with topics that span across various scales, from materials science to system integration and end-of-life management.
Topics of Interest:
This Special Issue will cover, but is not limited to, the following areas:
- Materials Innovation: New electrode, electrolyte, and separator materials; solid-state electrolytes; and nanostructured materials for enhanced performance.
- Battery Performance: Fast charging technologies, high-energy/power-density solutions, strategies to improve cycle life and reduce degradation, and Li-metal and Li-free batteries.
- Thermal Management: Innovative approaches to managing heat generation and dissipation, thermal modeling, and safety considerations in LIB systems.
- Mechanics and Degradation: Mechanical stresses in lithium-ion batteries, degradation mechanisms, and life-cycle prediction models.
- System-Level Innovations: Advances in battery management systems (BMSs), packaging, cell/module/pack integration, and thermal-electrochemical modeling.
- Safety and Reliability: Fire hazards, overcharging, and thermal runaway prevention strategies.
- Advanced Diagnostics and Characterization: New techniques for in situ and operando diagnostics, performance monitoring, and modeling of lithium-ion batteries.
- Electrochemical and Multiphysics Modeling: New models to predict the behavior of lithium-ion batteries under various conditions and scales.
- Future Directions and Emerging Technologies: Insights into next-generation lithium-ion batteries and comparisons with alternative technologies (solid-state batteries, sodium-ion batteries, etc.).
Prof. Dr. Xiao-Guang Yang
Dr. Tao Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lithium-ion battery
- fast charging
- smart battery
- battery management system
- thermal management
- electrochemical modeling
- battery safety
- Li-metal battery
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