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Design, Performance, and Application of Lithium-Ion Batteries

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2024) | Viewed by 4467

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Amin Rabiei Baboukani

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Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Interests: batteries and supercapacitors; energy storage materials; 2D materials; operando spectroscopy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With their advantageous high energy density, lithium-based energy storage systems power our daily lives, from smart phones to other consumer electronics. They also enable electrification of transportation systems and provide stationary storage of energy in the electrical grid, which is critical to developing a clean-energy economy. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of original research and review articles discussing the design, synthesis, and application of advanced lithium-ion batteries, to be published in the open access journal Materials. This Issue will cover research areas in novel design and fabrication, simulation, and application of high-energy, long-lifecycle, and fast-charging lithium-ion batteries. Topics of interest include 1) the advanced design of LIBs from a components point of view (electrodes, electrolytes, and additives) to thermal analysis; 2) simulation of LIBs from an electrochemical to thermal point of view to improve their performance and gain insight into their failure/improvement mechanisms; 3) advanced LIBs for high-performance energy storage applications; 4) advanced characterization of battery materials; and 5) application of LIBs from small- to large-scale systems. This Special Issue will additionally evaluate perspectives and novel design ideas concerning LIBs and their characterization with the aim of achieving better performance. Potential topics are as follows:

  • Developing electrodes, electrolyte, and separators for LIBs;
  • Full-cell design;
  • Advanced characterization techniques;
  • Capacity fading mechanism and failure analysis;
  • Battery management systems (BMS) for LIBs;
  • Machine learning applications in LIBs;
  • Wearable and flexible LIBs;
  • LIBs for electric vehicles;
  • modeling of LIBs;
  • battery life and safety;
  • solid-state LIBs;
  • electric vehicles.

Dr. Amin Rabiei Baboukani
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • lithium-ion batteries
  • design of batteries
  • advanced anode/cathode materials
  • electrolytes
  • advanced characterization of battery materials
  • lithium-ion battery applications
  • recycling of LIBs

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Anharmonicity of Plasmons in Metallic Nanostructures Useful for Metallization of Solar Cells
by Zofia Krzemińska and Witold A. Jacak
Materials 2023, 16(10), 3762; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16103762 - 16 May 2023
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Metallic nanoparticles are frequently applied to enhance the efficiency of photovoltaic cells via the plasmonic effect, and they play this role due to the unusual ability of plasmons to transmit energy. The absorption and emission of plasmons, dual in the sense of quantum [...] Read more.
Metallic nanoparticles are frequently applied to enhance the efficiency of photovoltaic cells via the plasmonic effect, and they play this role due to the unusual ability of plasmons to transmit energy. The absorption and emission of plasmons, dual in the sense of quantum transitions, in metallic nanoparticles are especially high at the nanoscale of metal confinement, so these particles are almost perfect transmitters of incident photon energy. We show that these unusual properties of plasmons at the nanoscale are linked to the extreme deviation of plasmon oscillations from the conventional harmonic oscillations. In particular, the large damping of plasmons does not terminate their oscillations, even if, for a harmonic oscillator, they result in an overdamped regime. Full article
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Nano-Confined Tin Oxide in Carbon Nanotube Electrodes via Electrostatic Spray Deposition for Lithium-Ion Batteries
by Alexandra Henriques, Amin Rabiei Baboukani, Borzooye Jafarizadeh, Azmal Huda Chowdhury and Chunlei Wang
Materials 2022, 15(24), 9086; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15249086 - 19 Dec 2022
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The development of novel materials is essential for the next generation of electric vehicles and portable devices. Tin oxide (SnO2), with its relatively high theoretical capacity, has been considered as a promising anode material for applications in energy storage devices. However, [...] Read more.
The development of novel materials is essential for the next generation of electric vehicles and portable devices. Tin oxide (SnO2), with its relatively high theoretical capacity, has been considered as a promising anode material for applications in energy storage devices. However, the SnO2 anode material suffers from poor conductivity and huge volume expansion during charge/discharge cycles. In this study, we evaluated an approach to control the conductivity and volume change of SnO2 through a controllable and effective method by confining different percentages of SnO2 nanoparticles into carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The binder-free confined SnO2 in CNT composite was deposited via an electrostatic spray deposition technique. The morphology of the synthesized and deposited composite was evaluated by scanning electron microscopy and high-resolution transmission electron spectroscopy. The binder-free 20% confined SnO2 in CNT anode delivered a high reversible capacity of 770.6 mAh g−1. The specific capacity of the anode increased to 1069.7 mAh g−1 after 200 cycles, owing to the electrochemical milling effect. The delivered specific capacity after 200 cycles shows that developed novel anode material is suitable for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Full article
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