Focus Issue: Journal of Materials Research

3D-Printed Electrodes for Energy Storage
Issue Date: June 2021
Submission deadline: November 1, 2020

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

Guest Editors
Bin Yao, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Yat Li, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Marcus A. Worsley, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Xiaolong Chen, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Peihua Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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To be considered for this issue, new and previously unpublished results significant to the development of this field should be presented.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 November 1, 2020. Manuscripts submitted after this deadline will not be considered for the issue due to time constraints on the review process. Please select “3D-Printed Electrodes for Energy Storage” 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.