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Guest Editorial
Special Section on Advances in Lithium-Ion Battery Safety
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Battery safety has attracted attention worldwide due to the expo- thermal management, battery monitoring, and recycling aspects
nentially increasing numbers of mobile devices and as well as the of the battery and its components. Li et al. reported a fluidized
fast-growing electric vehicle market. The milestone safety issues, bed coating method on the cathode that slows down the reaction
i.e., short circuit and thermal runaway, can be triggered by mechan- between solid electrolyte and the cathode active material, thus
ical, electrical, and thermal abusive loadings. Such catastrophic enhancing the cycling performance of all-solid-state batteries.
events are highly nonlinear and strongly multiphysics-coupled On the other hand, several papers in this issue focus on how to
problems, which hinders a clear understanding of the mechanism correctly estimate the different state parameters such as Capacity,
and direct guidance for engineering applications. Further, safety state of health (SOH), and state of charge (SOC) of the LIBs. For
problems can evolve and exhibit in various ways spanning example, Li et al. proposed a Convolutional Neural Network-Long
various scales, i.e., from the active particle level (1 µm) up to the Short Term Memory-based deep learning to estimate the discharge
battery pack level (1 m). Research on lithium-ion battery safety capacity of LIBs. Peng et al. proposed a new fusion method for
may lead to breakthroughs in electrochemistry and multiphysics inaccurate prediction of lithium-ion battery SOH. Furthermore,
theories, offer rational engineering designs, and develop advanced an online method based on indirect health features and a
battery management systems. sparrow search algorithm fused with a deep extreme learning
In light of these challenges and urgent industry needs, Prof. Jun machine to estimate the SOH of LIBs is established by Zhang
Xu and Dr. Yangxing Li initiated the Automotive and Battery et al. At the same time, Chang et al. reported a new methodology
Safety Conference (ABSC) in early 2018, which is dedicated to to estimate the SOH of LIBs based on electrochemical impedance
the discussion of battery safety issues. The participants at ABSC spectroscopy with the neural network. For SOC estimation, Yu
are from renowned universities, research institutes, and leading et al. proposed a novel trigger for parameter filter based on open-
companies worldwide. Some new ideas were initiated from the loop voltage to improve the accuracy of SOC estimation. Yu et al.
ABSC 2021, held virtually on September 27–29, 2021. Thus, we proposed a novel heat generation acquisition method of the cylin-
open this Special Section issue to record these new ideas. drical battery based on core and surface temperature measurements
This Special Section issue, which comprises selected publica- during charging/discharging of the LIBs. Besides, Gao et al.
tions from the participants of ABSC 2021, is envisioned to review the different design strategies of flame-retardant additives
present numerical computation models, security strategy, and in LIBs electrolytes.
state monitoring to address LIB safety issues. To analyze the We would like to thank all contributors to this Special Section
mechanical properties of LIB cells, Chen et al. carried out a com- issue for submitting the latest high-impact work addressing the
prehensive experimental investigation on the mechanical integrity safety of LIBs. Also, we give our special thanks to the invited review-
of the large-capacity pouch LIBs, considering various loading sce- ers for helping us further enhance the quality of the articles. Finally,
narios, speeds, and SOCs. A finite element model was also estab- we express our warm gratitude to Prof. Wilson Chiu, the Editor-in-
lished accordingly to study the safety behavior of the batteries. Chief of the ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion
From the multiphysics perspective, Li et al. proposed a practical and Storage, for his continuous encouragement and support.
workflow based on multiphysics computational techniques which
could describe the mechanical failure, internal short circuit, and
thermal runaway behaviors of pouch LIB cells under steel ball Lubing Wang
compression. In particular, Huang et al. focused on the thermal Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science,
runaway behaviors of LIBs. They investigated the influence of Ningbo University,
heat dissipation flow on the thermal runaway through combining Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
simulation and experiment and obtained the relationship between e-mail: [email protected]
the TR temperature and minimum heat dissipation flow. Safety
management of the LIB cell and its pack is also one of the Jun Xu
hot topics in this Special Section issue. Garg et al. presented a Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science,
holistic engineering design and simulation strategy for a future University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
advanced battery pack by assimilating paradigmatic solutions Charlotte, NC 28223
for cell material selection, component design, cell clustering, e-mail: [email protected]
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