This Special Issue will highlight advancements for in situ and operando characterization techniques for energy materials, focusing on methods and protocols that provide critical insights into their behavior. Submit your manuscript by October 31, 2025.
Energy materials in functional devices often operate under non-equilibrium conditions, where their structures and properties deviate from equilibrium states. Capturing their real-time behavior under operating conditions or with appropriate temporal resolution is crucial for understanding their performance and failure mechanisms.
A new Special Issue from Chemistry of Materials will focus on this exciting topic, highlighting cutting-edge approaches that enable such insights, driving progress in energy materials research and application.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Spectroscopic methods e.g., operando optical, Raman, X-ray/neutron, XPS, X-ray tomography, Mössbauer spectroscopy, EPR, NMR, MRI, and EM as well as multimodal characterization with integration of complementary techniques.
- Applications include solid-state batteries and hybrid systems, fuel cells, electrolyzers, solar cells, thermoelectrics and hydrogen storage technologies.
Submit your manuscript by October 31, 2025.
Organizing Editor
Prof. Yan-Yan Hu, Topic Editor, Chemistry of Materials
Florida State University, United States
Submission Information
We welcome submissions for this Special Issue through October 31, 2025. 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, perspectives, reviews, 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.
Open Access: There are diverse open access options for publications in American Chemical Society journals. Please visit our Open Science Resource Center for more information.
How to Submit
- Log in to the ACS Publishing Center.
- Select the "Journals" tab.
- Choose Chemistry of Materials.
- Click "Submit."
- Select your manuscript type, and, under "Special Issue Selection," choose “Operando and In Situ Characterization of Energy Materials."
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