Call For Papers: Future Perspectives on Battery Chemistries

While Li-ion technology dominates today’s energy landscape, the future will demand diversification of chemistries to meet the requirements of scale, sustainability, and application specificity. Future perspectives outlining the opportunities and challenges in emerging systems—such as alkali-ion, multivalent, aqueous, organic, Li-metal, Li–S, Li–O2, and solid-state batteries—will provide critical direction for the community.

This Special Issue at JACS Au focuses on cutting-edge research across the broad spectrum of battery technologies that will shape the future of electrochemical energy storage. We encourage contributions that articulate visionary roadmaps, identify bottlenecks, and propose innovative approaches to accelerate translation from laboratory to application.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Emerging chemistries beyond lithium-ion (Na/K/multivalent/organic/metal-sulfur/metal-air)
• Ceramic and polymer-based solid electrolytes
• Metal anodes and initially anode-free systems
• Aqueous batteries for large-scale storage
• Computational, physicochemical, and electrochemical characterizations
• High-throughput screening coupled with artificial intelligence
• Evaluations of technical readiness and life-cycle analysis of future chemistries

Submit your manuscript by September 1, 2026.

Organizing Editors

Prof. Hyunjoo Lee, Associate Editor, JACS Au
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea

Dr. Leiting Zhang, Guest Editor & Early Career Advisory Board Member, JACS Au
Uppsala University, Sweden

Prof. Jiwei Ma, Guest Editor
Tongji University, China

Dr. Özgür Çapraz, Guest Editor
University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States

Prof. Guohua Chen, Guest Editor
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Submission Information

We welcome submissions for this Special Issue through September 1, 2026. For more information on submission requirements, please visit the journal’s Author Guidelines page.

Accepted manuscripts for consideration in this Special Issue will include research Articles, Letters, Perspectives, and Methods/Protocols. Papers accepted for publication for this Special Issue will be available ASAP (as soon as publishable) online. After all submissions have been published, they will then be compiled online on a dedicated landing page to form the Special Issue. Manuscripts submitted for consideration will undergo the full rigorous peer review process expected from ACS journals.

JACS Au is an open access journal.

How to Submit

• Log in to the ACS Publishing Center.
• Select the "Journals" tab.
• Choose JACS Au.
• Click "Submit."
• Select your manuscript type, and, under "Special Issue Selection," choose “Future Perspectives on Battery Chemistries."

If you have any general questions regarding submission to this Special Issue, please contact Prof. Hyunjoo Lee (lee-office@jacsau.acs.org).