Papers Now Being Accepted for Special Journal Issue on Electro...

Papers Now Being Accepted for Special Journal Issue on Electro... Papers Now Being Accepted for Special Journal Issue on Electro... Papers Now Being Accepted for Special Journal Issue on Electrochemical Energy StorageThe editorial board for the ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage is currently accepting papers for a special issue of the journal, which is scheduled to be published in June 2016. The deadline to submit a paper for the special journal issue, which will cover topics related to multiphysics coupling in energy storage, is March 15, 2016. The topic of multiphysics coupling in energy storage has become increasingly significant in recent years, as automakers aspire to accelerate innovation in relation to improved energy and power performance, the safety and lifespan of energy storage devices for electric vehicles, renewable energy integration, and grid storage. Lithium-ion batteries, in particular, are leading the race for electric drive ve hicles. These are complex, dynamical systems, which include a multitude of coupled physicochemical processes encompassing electronic, ionic, diffusive transport in solid/electrolyte phases, electrochemical and phase change reactions, and stress generation in multi-scale porous electrodes. The performance and resilience of behauptung electrochemical energy storage devices is dependent on complex reaction/transport processes spanning multiple length and time scales. Computational models of mechanical, thermal and electrochemical processes play an important role in providing insight into coupled multiphysics interactions. The National Science Foundation and the ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division sponsored a special symposium at the 2015 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition to discuss these advances. Based on the outcome of this symposium, a number of areas of interest were identified. The Special Issue on Multiphysics Coupling in Energy Sto rage is intended to be a collection of invited review articles and contributed research articles on these subjects, which include coupling of electrochemical, thermal, and mechanical physics chemistry-materials-transport interactions modeling of physical processes across length scales reduced order models mesoscale physics of microstructure-transport-chemistry interactions degradation processes controlling safety and lifetime origin and evolution of safety events such as thermal runaway and opportunities and challenges in beyond lithium-ion chemistry. This special issue will be co-edited by Partha P. Mukherjee of Texas AM University, George J. Nelson of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Wilson K. S. Chiu of the University of Connecticut. Papers for the Special Issue on Multiphysics Coupling in Energy Storage should be submitted by March 15 to the journals editor, Prof. Wilson K. S. Chiu, using the For more information on the ASME Journals program, visit ht tp//journaltool.asme.org.