Next-generation batteries, especially those for future electric vehicles and aircraft, require not only outstanding metrics in energy, power, and cycle life, but also enhanced safety performance. The solid state battery (SSB) is one of the most promising next-generation development directions beyond current commercial Li-ion batteries, due to their non-flammable, solid-state electrolytes and paradigm-shift performance possibilities. SSBs have been shown to use Li metal, silicon, sulfur, or other new cathodes and anodes, with new battery architecture and device design for high energy density, fast charging and discharging, and ultra-long cycling lifetime. While researchers have made significant progress, numerous challenges remain regarding the practical use of SSBs.
We will use this Research Topic to invite contributions from scientists and engineers world-wide to present and discuss their discoveries and perspectives on solid-state battery research. Short communications, full research articles, and topic reviews are all welcome. For a complete list of article types, please refer to the journal website.
The scope of this Research Topic is mostly material-focused, but it covers a broad endeavor, including materials chemistry in solid electrolytes and solid-state electrodes, novel characterization tools and techniques, computational advancements for mechanistic understanding and performance prediction, and engineering efforts for scale-up of SSB components toward commercialization. More specific examples include but are not limited to:
• Synthesis, processing, and properties of solid electrolytes
• High voltage, high power, and high-energy, solid-state battery cathodes
• Improving Li metal anode performance with solid electrolytes
• Anode-free solid-state batteries
• Li alloy and non-Li anodes for solid-state batteries
• Thin-film microbatteries
• Surface coating technology
• Experimental and computational mechanistic studies of battery chemistries and mechanics
• In-situ and operando characterizations
• Machine learning in materials discovery and performance prediction
• Scale up manufacturing of large-format solid state cells
Keywords:
Solid state batteries, solid state electrolytes, energy storage materials, beyond lithium ion, safe batteries
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Next-generation batteries, especially those for future electric vehicles and aircraft, require not only outstanding metrics in energy, power, and cycle life, but also enhanced safety performance. The solid state battery (SSB) is one of the most promising next-generation development directions beyond current commercial Li-ion batteries, due to their non-flammable, solid-state electrolytes and paradigm-shift performance possibilities. SSBs have been shown to use Li metal, silicon, sulfur, or other new cathodes and anodes, with new battery architecture and device design for high energy density, fast charging and discharging, and ultra-long cycling lifetime. While researchers have made significant progress, numerous challenges remain regarding the practical use of SSBs.
We will use this Research Topic to invite contributions from scientists and engineers world-wide to present and discuss their discoveries and perspectives on solid-state battery research. Short communications, full research articles, and topic reviews are all welcome. For a complete list of article types, please refer to the journal website.
The scope of this Research Topic is mostly material-focused, but it covers a broad endeavor, including materials chemistry in solid electrolytes and solid-state electrodes, novel characterization tools and techniques, computational advancements for mechanistic understanding and performance prediction, and engineering efforts for scale-up of SSB components toward commercialization. More specific examples include but are not limited to:
• Synthesis, processing, and properties of solid electrolytes
• High voltage, high power, and high-energy, solid-state battery cathodes
• Improving Li metal anode performance with solid electrolytes
• Anode-free solid-state batteries
• Li alloy and non-Li anodes for solid-state batteries
• Thin-film microbatteries
• Surface coating technology
• Experimental and computational mechanistic studies of battery chemistries and mechanics
• In-situ and operando characterizations
• Machine learning in materials discovery and performance prediction
• Scale up manufacturing of large-format solid state cells
Keywords:
Solid state batteries, solid state electrolytes, energy storage materials, beyond lithium ion, safe batteries
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.