Coating Active Materials for Lithium-Ion Battery and Supercapacitor Applications

Call for Papers

Electrochemical energy storage by Lithium-ion battery and supercapacitor is promising owing to their high energy density and power density. They are being intensively pursued in transportation applications such as hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and electric vehicles (EVs). However, there have been still critical limitations towards a success in developing such high- performance lithium batteries and supercapacitors for EV application. Modification of electrode materials is required in order to obtain improved properties for these ongoing large-scale applications.

It has turned out that surface coating is an economic and feasible technology to improve the battery performances by modifying the surface chemistry or providing protection layers to minimize the direct contact of the active material with the electrolyte. Selection of coating materials is of crucial importance in improving the ionic or electronic conductivity, suppressing phase transition, increasing structural stability, decreasing the disorder of cations in crystal sites, reducing transition metal dissolution, acting as a HF scavenger to reduce the electrolyte acidity, favoring the formation of solid–electrolyte-interface (SEI) film on the anode surface, and so on.

The major goals of this special issue are to find different coatings for electrode materials to improve the electrochemical properties of Lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Synthesis and characterization of coated nanostructured electrode materials
• Identification of suitable electrolyte (organic or aqueous based
• Effect of nanostructure (surface modification, interspacing, nanosheet orientation, ordering and orientation of nanodomains, nanopores, etc.) on electrode performance
• Graphene-based coating electrodes
• Nanoporous and nanocrystalline materials for coating electrodes
• Effect of coating on Lithium-ion diffusivity and electronic conductivity of electrode materials
• Effect of coating on electrochemical properties of electrode materials
• Contamination and cycling stability issues
• Scalable manufacturing methodology

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Lead Guest Editor

• Amir Kajbafvala, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA

Guest Editors

• Mojtaba Samiee, Department of NanoEngineering and Program of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
• Michael Z. Hu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6181, USA
• Jae-IL Jung, School of Green Energy, Ulsan National Institution of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea