Materials Engineering Research https://www.syncsci.com/journal/MER <p><a title="Registered Journal" href="https://www.reviewercredits.com/user/mater-eng-res" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="journalreviewercredits" src="/journal/public/site/images/jasongong/Logo_ReviewerCredits-journal.jpg" alt="ReviewerCredits" align="right"></a><strong>Materials Engineering Research&nbsp;</strong> (ISSN: 2630-4503) is an open access, continuously published, international, refereed&nbsp; journal in material field, publishing material science method, technology, and characterization, relevant to material engineering, as broadly defined.</p> <p>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:<br>• Material synthesis and processing<br>• Material Structure<br>• Material Crystallography<br>• Material Properties<br>• Material Application<br>• New Materials <br>• Emerging technologies in material engineering</p> en-US <p>Authors contributing to&nbsp;<em>Materials Engineering Research</em>&nbsp;agree to publish their articles under the&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License</a>, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.</p> snowy.wang@syncsci.com (Snowy Wang) editor@syncsci.com (Alan Tan) Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 +0800 OJS 3.1.1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Polymer electrolyte design strategies for high-performance and safe lithium-ion batteries: Recent developments and future prospects https://www.syncsci.com/journal/MER/article/view/MER.2023.01.001 <p>Although lithium-ion batteries have gained widespread use in high-performance and mobile industries, concerns about their safety due to the low boiling point of their organic liquid electrolyte have posed challenges to their further development. In response, solid polymer electrolytes have emerged as a promising alternative, characterized by low flammability, flexibility, and high safety relative to liquid electrolytes. However, commercialization has been hindered by limitations in Li-ion conductivity and mechanical properties. Recent research efforts have focused on addressing these limitations to improve the performance and safety of polymer-based Li-ion batteries. This review discusses the utilization of polymer materials to enhance battery safety and overcome previous challenges, with a particular emphasis on the design of robust artificial interfaces to increase battery stability. Furthermore, we discuss the prospects for the future of polymer-based battery industries.</p> Md. Dipu Ahmed, Kazi Madina Maraz ##submission.copyrightStatement## http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 https://www.syncsci.com/journal/MER/article/view/MER.2023.01.001 Fri, 19 May 2023 18:33:13 +0800