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3D-Printed Electrodes for Energy Storage
Rapid development of materials research for advanced energy storage devices is driven by escalating energy consumption worldwide. Contributing factors include increased population, depletion of fossil fuels, proliferation of environmental pollution, climate change, and discovery of new energy conversion techniques. 3D printing has emerged as a new tool to fabricate high-performance electrodes to satisfy intense energy demands. 3D printing technologies enable the creation of unique material and device structures that cannot be achieved via conventional methods. With these new complex architectures, the 3D-printed materials can achieve substantially improved electrochemical performance.
This JMR Focus Issue will present a broad range of topics covering the fabrication, characterization, and applications of 3D-printed materials for energy storage. These applications include but are not limited to lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, magnesium-ion batteries, zinc-ion batteries, metal batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, solid-state batteries, supercapacitors, lithium-ion capacitors, micro-energy storage systems, et al. Both original research articles, and reviews, focused on the demonstrated use of 3D printing tools to fabricate novel electrode materials and electrolytes for these different types of energy storage devices will be considered.
Contributing papers are solicited in the following areas:
• Novel 3D printing techniques for energy storage
• 3D-printed electrode materials for different types of batteries
• 3D-printed electrode materials for capacitors
• 3D printing of electrolytes
• 3D printing of micro energy storage devices
Editors
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Bin Yao
Postdoc at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
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Yat Li
Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
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Marcus A. Worsley
Deputy Group Leader, High Performance Materials Materials Science Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA.
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Xiaolong Chen
Researcher at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Peihua Yang
Research Staff at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
