Focus Issue: Journal of Materials Research

Advances in battery technology: Material innovations in design and fabrication 
Issue date: Feburary, 2020
Submission deadline:  July 1, 2019

The increasing demand for clean energy is a primary force driving the battery industry’s innovations in such aspects as long cycle life, wide working temperature, and the search for inexpensive materials with high energy density. Developing novel materials and scalable production processes is essential for the advancement of battery technologies. High-performance materials fabricated by processes with high production yield, repeatable product quality, and facile equipment requirement are greatly favored in both scientific exploration and practical applications. Production of components including electrodes, electrolytes, and separators is another area of rapid advancement in the field’s technology.

This JMR Focus Issue is designed to report the latest advances in battery material innovations and process developments across the industry.

Contributing papers are solicited in the following areas:

• New design for battery materials: cathodes, anodes, electrolytes
• New process development of the material synthesis
• Chemical process simulation
• Process utilizes inexpensive and nontoxic raw materials
• Advanced material characterizations
• New chemistries for energy storage
• Beyond lithium ion

Guest Editors:

Yujia Liang, Ph.D., Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Xuemin Li, Ph.D., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

Haiping Wu, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Chongmin Wang, Ph.D., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Manuscript Submission:

To be considered for this issue, new and previously unpublished results significant to the development of this field should be presented. The manuscripts must be submitted via the JMR electronic submission system by July 1, 2019. Manuscripts submitted after this deadline will not be considered for the issue due to time constraints on the review process. Please select “Advances in battery technology: Material innovations in design and fabrication” as the Focus Issue designation. Note our manuscript submission minimum length of 3250 words, excluding figures, captions, and references, with at least 6 and no more than 10 figures and tables combined. Review articles may be longer but must be pre-approved by proposal to the Guest Editors via jmr@mrs.org. The proposal form and author instructions may be found at www.mrs.org/jmr-instructions. All manuscripts will be reviewed in a normal but expedited fashion. Papers submitted by the deadline and subsequently accepted will be published in the Focus Issue. Other manuscripts that are acceptable but cannot be included in the issue will be scheduled for publication in a subsequent issue of JMR.

Please direct questions to jmr@mrs.org.