Carbon Energy Special Issues


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Next-generation Thermal Materials

April 15th, 2025
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September 30th, 2024

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  • Guest Editors

    Guanglei Cui
    Qingdao Institute of Energy,  
    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    Shanqing Zhang
    Griffith University,     Australia

    Zhiqiang Niu
    Nankai University,     China

    “Flexible batteries”, special issue organized by Carbon Energy, aims at giving an exhaustive overview of state-of-the-art flexible batteries and bringing novel ideas and concepts that would make the field progressing and spur the development of intelligent technologies    . Nowadays, electronic devices that can be flexible, bendable, foldable and stretchable, such as wearable electronics, electronic papers, smart clothes, electronic skins, displays, bendable smart phones and implantable medical devices, have been required urgently. As a result, to power these devices, there is a persistent need for developing equally flexible and stretchable energy-storage systems that can be conformal with deformation while retaining their electrochemical functions. However, for the majority of current conductors, the compatibility between conductive domains and neighboring elastic networks remains a problem that is usually overlooked, challenging to address, and always leads to poor electro-mechanical performance. Therefore, the present special issues aim at reporting a collection of articles focused on the different facets of progressing in flexible batteries field. The field of flexible and stretchable energy-storage devices is absolutely exciting and fairly openended, providing researchers from various backgrounds to explore novel and interesting concepts and designs.


    Guest Editors


    Yongsheng Hu
    Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    Jun Lu
    Argonne Laboratory, USA

    Magda Titirici
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    In order to satisfy the growing demand about the market of grid storage systems, Na-ion batteries with properties of low-cost, long-life and high safety are being accelerated for development due to that sodium as the earth-abundant element can be used for charge transfer in Na-ion batteries. Carbon materials are important components in Na-ion batteries which can be used as active electrode, conductive additive, current collector, etc. This special issue will focus on the state-of-the-art progress about the application of carbon based materials for Na-ion batteries. In particular, the hot topics include, but is not limited to, disordered carbon, organic electrodes, etc. The new fundamental understanding and proposed application value in this collection of articles around the use of carbon based materials are believed to promote the development of Na-ion batteries.

     

    Guest Editors

    Xin Wang
    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Nicola Pinna
    Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

    “Electrocatalysis” aims at giving an exhaustive overview of state-of-the-art electrocatalysis and bringing novel ideas and concepts that would make the field progressing and hydrogen-based energy solutions become a reality. To arrive to sustainable hydrogen-based energy solutions, the development of durable and low overpotential, and the understanding of water-splitting catalysts play the most crucial role. In particular, the anodic reaction, that is the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) was identified as the limiting factor hindering the efficiency and the durability of electrolysers. The present special issues aim at reporting a collection of articles focused on the different facets of OER catalysis. On the one hand, the search for high performance and durable catalysts based on earth abundant elements is still of high actuality. On the other hand, fundamental understanding of the mechanisms, chemical/structural transformations and active sites of OER catalysts, often based on operando or in situ techniques, are needed for the development of the ideal catalyst.

    Guest Editors

    Xiulei Ji
    Oregon State University, USA

    Yanguang Li
    Soochow University, China

    Ismael A Rodriguez Perez
    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

    Novel aqueous batteries are under intense scrutiny so that the rapidly growing demand of energy storage can be met with scalable solutions. These batteries will benefit from their inherently excellent safety characteristics, albeit containing less energy than the state-of-the-art Li-ion batteries. Yet, there already exist a good number of aqueous batteries that have been commercialized, secondary and primary. However, despite the dire need to take care of intermittent solar and wind energies, these batteries, e.g., Lead-Acid and Ni-MH, do not seem to have the potential to address the market. They fail to exhibit competitive levelized energy cost. New basic understanding and tailor-designed materials will move forward alternative aqueous batteries, where they will be tested and measured in their impacts. This special issue will present the breakthroughs and progress made for aqueous batteries from some of the best experts in the field. These new results will contribute to this increasingly important research area of energy.


    Guest Editors

    Yunhui Huang
    Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

    Quanhong Yang
    Tianjin University, China

    Shulei Chou
    University of Wollongong, Australia

    Solid state batteries (SSBs) have a great potential for application in electronic devices, electric vehicles and large energy storage due to their high safety, large energy density and long service life. However, the application prospect of SSBs has been restricted by some critical problems, such as solid state electrolytes, large interface resistance, alkali metal dendrite growth and cell fabrication technology. Carbon materials play important roles in SSBs by improving the interfacial property, increasing the conductivity of electrodes, restraining the dendrite growth and hence addressing the safety issue, etc. This special issue will focus on the application of carbon materials in SSBs, and present the recent breakthrough and progress contributed from the outstanding scientists in the fields of rechargeable batteries as well as carbon materials. We believe that the new contributed results will provide applicable strategies for development of SSBs with large energy density and high safety.



    Guest Editors


    Yong Lei
    Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany

    Gerhard Wilde
    University of Münster, Germany

    (1) Functional nanomaterials; 
    (2) Well-defined nanostructures; 
    (3) Energy harvesting including (such as photovoltaics, thermoelectric effect, water splitting, optical retenna, piezoelectric conversion, tribo-electricity); 
    (4) Energy storage including supercapacitors, beyond Li-ion batteries.