Advances in Energy Storage and Conversion Devices Utilizing Ionic Liquid Electrolytes
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Advanced Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 March 2022) | Viewed by 4245
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ionic liquids; x-ray scattering; computational molecular modelling; (halogen-free) electrolytes; batteries; fuel-cells
Interests: photovoltaic; dye-sensitized solar cells; perovskite solar cells; deep eutectic solvents; ionic liquids
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Dear Colleagues,
Ionic liquids (ILs) are organic salts with melting points lower than their decomposition temperature. Being salts in the liquid state, they show attractive and tunable physical and chemical properties, such as negligible vapour pressure, modest ionic conductivity, low flammability, and wide electrochemical window.
In the last two decades, ILs have been exploited in almost any field of chemistry, industry, and engineering.
Throughout this collection, we aim at gathering a series of papers together focused on the most recent advances in the uses of ILs in energy conversion and storage electrochemical devices. The contributions will tackle (but not limited to) smart-design for task-specific applications, implementation as electrolytes for solar cells, proton-shuttling media in fuel-cells, solvation-specific solvent for multivalent ions in post-lithium batteries, optimization of SEI formation for lithium-ion batteries, structure-properties relationship in electrochemical performances. Both theoretical and experimental approaches are equally welcomed.
Dr. Alessandro Mariani
Dr. Matteo Bonomo
Dr. Xinpei Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Ionic Liquids
- Batteries
- Fuel-Cells
- Photovoltaic Devices
- Smart-Design
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