Call for Papers: Energy Storage Across Scales: Bridging Material Design and System-Level Performance

Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, ACS Omega, and ACS Applied Energy Materials join efforts to highlight research that explores the development of energy storage materials and technologies with a strong focus on their operating conditions and constraints at relevant scales, such as grid-level storage. While many energy storage innovations demonstrate promise at the laboratory scale, their practical implementation is often limited by factors such as charge/discharge rates, thermal management, cycle life, and economic feasibility.

We invite contributions that analyze the interplay between material properties and large-scale system requirements, ensuring that innovations in batteries, thermal storage, and other energy storage technologies are designed with real-world performance in mind. Manuscripts should emphasize how factors such as scalability, efficiency, and durability impact the viability of storage solutions across different applications, from portable electronics to grid-scale energy storage. The overarching goal is to highlight strategies for designing energy storage solutions that are not only high-performing at the material level but also optimized for industrial and grid-scale applications.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Multi-Scale Energy Storage Design
  • Strategies for integrating material-level advancements with large-scale system requirements
  • Case studies on successful scale-up of energy storage technologies
• Modeling and Simulation for Energy Storage Optimization
  • Computational approaches for predicting performance at different scales
  • System-level modeling of storage integration with energy networks
• Charge/Discharge Performance and System Constraints
  • Optimization of charge/discharge cycle speeds for different applications
  • Balancing energy density, power density, and long-term stability
• Thermal Management in Energy Storage Systems
  • Advances in cooling and heat dissipation strategies for large-scale storage
  • Thermal control challenges in high-capacity and fast-cycling storage solutions
• Scalability and Economic Feasibility
  • Techno-economic analyses of different storage technologies at scale
  • Life-cycle cost assessments and sustainability considerations
• Grid-Level and Industrial Energy Storage
  • Integration of energy storage systems with power grids and renewable energy sources
  • Large-scale storage technologies for demand-side management and load balancing
• Advancements in Batteries, Thermal Storage, and Alternative Technologies
  • New materials and chemistries for batteries, including solid-state and flow batteries, Innovations in thermal energy storage for industrial and grid applications
  • Emerging energy storage concepts beyond conventional battery technologies

We welcome contributions that address these themes with a focus on bridging the gap between material development and real-world operational performance, ensuring energy storage technologies meet the demands of large-scale deployment.

The submission deadline is August 31, 2025.

Organizing Editors

Prof. Michael Baldea, Editor in Chief, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
University of Texas at Austin, United States

Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee, Deputy Editor, ACS Omega
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Prof. Yiying Wu, Deputy Editor, ACS Applied Energy Materials
The Ohio State University, United States

Prof. Hye Ryung Byon, Associate Editor, ACS Omega
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea

Prof. Luis Ricardez Sandoval, Guest Editor
University of Waterloo, Canada

How to Submit

• Log in to the ACS Publishing Center.
• Select the "Journals" tab.
• Choose any of the journals listed above.
• Click "Submit."
• Select your manuscript type, and, under "Special Issue Selection”, choose “Energy Storage Across Scales."

For more information, please refer to the Author Guidelines for each journal:

• Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
• ACS Omega
• ACS Applied Energy Materials

If you have any general questions regarding submission to this Special Issue, please contact Dr. Jhoan Toro-Mendoza (jtoro-mendoza@acs-i.org), Dr. Silvia Imberti (simberti@acs-i.org), and Dr. Chengmei Zhong (managing.editor@aem.acs.org).

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