Rechargeable Batteries for Large-Scale Energy Storage

Scope

The special issue “Rechargeable Batteries for Large-Scale Energy Storage” aims to report on new discoveries and advances related to various types of rechargeable battery energy storage technologies, including but not limited to: metal ion batteries, redox flow batteries, molten salt batteries, alkaline batteries, lead acid batteries, metal air batteries, and hydrogen gas batteries. The scope covers discovery of great importance in advanced materials, novel chemistry and electrochemistry, advanced investigative and characterization techniques related to energy storage battery technologies. Papers which have high scientific and technological merit, impart important new knowledge and advancement, and are of high interest to the international battery community will be published.

Guest Editors

Yi Cui, member of the National Academy of Sciences, director of the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy, Fortinet Founders Professor, professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford, and of photon science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. His research focuses on nanomaterials for energy storage, solar cells, topological insulators, biology and the environment. He is the co-director of Stanford's StorageX Initiative, an associate editor of Nano Letters, co-director of the Department of Energy’s Bay Area Photovoltaics Consortium and Battery 500 consortium, and co-founder of Amprius Inc., 4C Air Inc., EnerVenue Inc. and Lifelabs Design. He is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, the Electrochemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. His selected awards include Blavatnik National Laureate (2017), MRS Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2015), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2010), KAUST Investigator Award (2008), Technology Review World Top Young Innovator Award (2004). He received a B.S. in applied chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University.

Wei Chen is a Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China and a Professor at the National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale in Hefei, China. He received his B.S. degree in Materials Physics from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2008; Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2013; postdoctoral research at Stanford University from 2014-2018; a scientist at EEnotech from 2018-2019. He joined the University of Science and Technology of China in July 2019, focusing on large-scale energy storage batteries and electrocatalysis. He is a youth member of the editorial board of Energy Materials Advances, eScience, Nano Research Energy, Battery Energy, Carbon Energy, Chinese Chemical Letters, and Transactions of Tianjin University.

Submission Instructions

Please indicate in your cover letter that your submission is intended for inclusion in the special issue.

Submission Deadline: June, 30, 2023

Table of Contents

Articles will appear here as they are published.