Ecological and energy issues brought green energy production and low/zero-emission transportation to the front of emerging and rapidly developing areas of industry. Booming development and miniaturization of consumer electronics and communication devices are the critical paths of the recent technological progress supporting our social sustainability. The technologies in these crucial areas of sustainable development rely on the availability of high-performance energy storage/power source devices, and rechargeable batteries are the best options available now. Although the current leader of the market, lithium-ion batteries, provide the most advanced operation among other batteries, they cannot satisfy the ever-growing performance requirements of the emerging technologies in terms of safety, cost, and stable performance. Therefore, alternative battery technologies—“beyond lithium-ion” batteries were proposed and are rapidly developed. This Research Topic covers some areas of such emerging systems. The works published in the Research Topic includes technical and review papers in the areas of advanced electrode and electrolytes and the development of special interlayers to enhance the performance of the batteries, operating with both organic and aqueous electrolytes. Along with this, the Topic includes a paper that discusses the compromise between technology sustainability and maximization of electric performance, which the Editors considered as an essential topic to discuss when choosing the best option to power advanced and growing applications.
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Keywords
beyond Li-ion, rechargeable batteries, energy storage (batteries), next generation batteries, alternative battery technologies
Citation
Bakenov Z, Zhu K, Liu J and Yadegari H (2021) Editorial: Energy Storage Systems Beyond Li-Ion Intercalation Chemistry. Front. Energy Res. 9:658875. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2021.658875
Received
26 January 2021
Accepted
09 February 2021
Published
29 March 2021
Volume
9 - 2021
Edited and reviewed by
Jonghyun Park, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
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*Correspondence: Zhumabay Bakenov, zbakenov@nu.edu.kz
†These authors have contributed equally to this work
This article was submitted to Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, a section of the journal Frontiers in Energy Research
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