International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

Special Issue on ‘Micro/Nano Manufacturing for Energy Conversion and Storage: From Materials, Structures to Components and Devices’

Guest Editor: Prof. Wei Yuan

Director, Guangdong Engineering Research Center of Advanced Electrical Vehicular Power Sources and Thermal Control System

School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering

South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Email: mewyuan@scut.edu.cn

Homepage：http://www2.scut.edu.cn/smae/2016/0728/c21153a302410/page.htm

Guest Editor: Prof. Zuankai Wang

Associate Dean (CENG), College of Engineering

Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Department of Materials Science and Engineering

City University of Hong Kong, China

Email: zuanwang@cityu.edu.hk

Homepage：https://wangzuankai.wixsite.com/wanglab

Guest Editor: Prof. Yan Chen

Associate Dean, School of Environment and Energy

South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Email: escheny@scut.edu.cn

Homepage：http://www2.scut.edu.cn/yanchen

Guest Editor: Prof. Hongshuai Hou

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Central South University, Changsha, China

Email: hs-hou@csu.edu.cn

Homepage：https://faculty.csu.edu.cn/hhs/zh_CN/index.htm

Introduction

The past decade has witnessed the rapid and widespread development of energy conversion and storage technologies, like fuel cells, batteries, solar cells, hydrogen production etc. With the upsurge of electronic products, smart devices, and electric vehicles, both academic and industrial communities devote increasing efforts to design and manufacture more advanced energy-related devices, modules, and power source systems with high energy density, high power density, high capacity, long lifecycle and high security. Especially, the revolution of new materials and new craft illuminates great potential of performance breakthrough in energy conversion and storage. To achieve the goal of practical applications demands new advances in extreme manufacturing, in terms of advanced fabrication processes (e.g., composites machining, surface/interface modification and enhancement, fabrication of ultrafine fibres/powders/films, multiphase combination, molecular-/atomic-scale processing, self-assembly, etc.), shape/geometry/morphology scales (nano, micro, mesoscopic, coupled, etc.), functional features (mechanical, electrochemical, catalytic, optical, thermal, fluidic, magnetic, acoustic, electrical, tribological, nature-inspired, planar/3D, flexible, foldable, stretchable, wearable, etc.), analytic means (SEM, XPS, XRD, TGA, Raman, BET, in-situ and operando, etc.), characteristic performances (output, charge/discharge, long-term operation, EIS, CV, etc.), as well as service environment (high-/low-temperature, high altitude, shock & vibration, corrosive, dry & moist, etc.).

New functions and application objectives in energy conversion and storage necessitate novel design strategies and demand more effective manufacturing processes. This special issue aims to provide a collection of the latest progress in micro/nano manufacturing for energy conversion and storage, ranging from designing materials, structures, components and devices to their manufacturing, measurement and application, which will shed light on the interdisciplinary cutting-edge research combining extreme manufacturing technology with the field of energy conversion and storage.

Possible topics, within this scope, include but are not limited to:

Materials, Structures and Components of Fuel Cells and Electrolytic Cells
Batteries, Supercapacitors, Solar Cells and Hybrid Devices
Novel Design and Advanced Fabrication of Electrodes
Micro/Nano Manufacturing (MEMS, Cutting/Milling/Drilling, Welding, ED Machining, Electro-Chemical Machining,
Etching, Laser Processing, Ion Beam Machining, 3D Printing, Electrospinning, Thin-Film Plating, PVD, CVD, ALD
, etc.) for
Functional Materials, Structures and Devices
High-Precision Machining and Integration for Key Components, Assemblies and Microsystems
Nature-Inspired Engineering for Energy Conversion and Storage
3D Printed Batteries and All-Solid-State Batteries
Ultra-Thin, Ultra-Flexible Design and Miniaturization of Devices
Multiscale and Multifunctional Design Concept
High-Energy Materials, Soft Materials and Metamaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage
Thermoelectric Materials, Photoelectric Materials, Phase-Change Materials, Components and Devices for Energy
Conversion and Storage
Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermal-Fluid Performances in Fuel Cells and Batteries
Surfaces, Interfaces and Related Functional Regulation (Mechanics, Electrochemical, Optical, Thermal and Fluidic
Functions)
Metrology, Materials Analytics, Structure Characterization and Functional Evaluation
Upscaling of Micro/Nano Manufacturing Processes in Production
Modelling, Simulation and Materials Computation