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GitHub用于判断电化学储能材料稿件是否契合Energy Storage Materials期刊。聚焦结构-性能-机制关系，提供投稿定位、重述建议及拒稿启发式规则，辅助作者评估材料与设备类研究的适配度。
Trigger Scenarios
判断稿件是否适合该期刊
将合成/性能描述重构为机制故事
在材料与设备期刊间做选择
了解审稿标准与拒稿风险
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill energy-storage-materials -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "energy-storage-materials",
"description": "Use when targeting Energy Storage Materials or deciding whether an electrochemical-energy-storage materials manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the materials-structure-property-mechanism bar, characterization rigor, house style, the materials-vs-device routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Energy Storage Materials (energy-storage-materials)
Journal positioning
Energy Storage Materials (Elsevier) is an archival venue for materials for electrochemical energy storage: electrode and electrolyte materials and their structure–property–performance relationships and mechanisms for batteries and supercapacitors. Its center of gravity is the material and the mechanism — why a composition, structure, or interface stores charge the way it does — established with materials-level evidence and connected to electrochemical behavior. Where Journal of Power Sources rewards an advance read in the cell, this journal rewards a materials insight: a new storage mechanism, a structure–property law, or a mechanistic explanation of capacity, kinetics, or stability. A device-engineering paper with no new materials understanding, or a synthesis paper with a property number and no mechanism, is a weak fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Energy Storage Materials Guide for Authors on the Elsevier site.
When to trigger
- The author names Energy Storage Materials for an electrode/electrolyte-materials manuscript centered on structure–property–performance or storage mechanism.
- A paper must be re-framed from "we synthesized a material and measured capacity" into a structure–property–mechanism story for charge storage.
- The author is deciding between this materials-mechanism venue and the device venue
journal-of-power-sources, or a structural-materials venue. - The author needs the journal's materials-characterization and mechanism rigor bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
- Electrode materials: cathodes, anodes, and conversion/alloying/intercalation hosts, with structure–property–performance relationships and storage mechanisms.
- Electrolytes and interfaces: liquid, solid-state, and quasi-solid electrolytes, SEI/CEI formation, and ion-transport and interfacial mechanisms.
- Beyond-lithium and emerging chemistries (Na, K, multivalent, metal-anode, etc.) where the materials-level mechanism is the advance.
- Materials for supercapacitors and hybrid storage where charge-storage mechanism and structure–property links are central.
- Operando/in-situ and advanced characterization, and materials modeling, when they resolve a storage mechanism or structure–property law.
- Design principles and structure–property relationships transferable across a materials class, not a single composition.
Method & evidence bar
- The central claim is a structure–property–mechanism result: the materials origin of capacity, rate, or stability, supported by direct evidence (operando/in-situ, spectroscopy, diffraction, microscopy), not inferred from a capacity curve alone.
- Electrochemical data must be reported with loading, current density, voltage window, and electrolyte, and connected to the materials mechanism; honest half-cell/full-cell context is required.
- Mechanism must be ruled in by controlled materials variation and characterization, not asserted from morphology–performance correlation.
- Performance claims must be benchmarked against the correct materials baseline under comparable conditions; trivial-loading or cherry-picked-cycle results are weak.
- Characterization must be statistically representative with sampling reported, and computation (DFT/MD) must be tied to or predictive of experiment.
Structure & house style
- Standard research-article structure (introduction, experimental, results, discussion); the journal uses highlights and a graphical abstract — re-check current article types and requirements on the live guide.
- The introduction frames the materials/mechanism gap (not the device target); the discussion makes the structure–property–mechanism argument explicit and transferable.
- Figures are load-bearing: structure/characterization paired with electrochemistry, operando/in-situ evidence, and mechanism schematics grounded in data.
- Supporting information carries full synthesis, extended characterization, and computational details; main-text figures must support the mechanism on their own.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the Elsevier anchors, then cite the current Energy Storage Materials Guide for Authors page you checked. - Search the live site for "Energy Storage Materials guide for authors" and follow the current Elsevier/Editorial Manager version.
- Re-check article types, highlights and graphical-abstract requirements, and electrochemical/characterization reporting conventions.
- Confirm data-availability and any deposition requirements for crystallographic or computational data.
- Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution (CRediT), and AI-use disclosure requirements.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The contribution is a structure–property–mechanism insight, not a synthesis-plus-capacity report.
- Mechanism is supported by operando/in-situ or controlled-variation evidence, not morphology–performance correlation.
- Electrochemical data include loading, current density, window, and electrolyte, tied to the materials mechanism.
- Performance is benchmarked against the correct materials baseline under comparable conditions.
- Characterization is statistically representative with sampling reported; any computation is tied to experiment.
- The mechanism/design principle is framed to transfer across a materials class.
Common desk-reject triggers
- Synthesis-plus-capacity paper with a property number and no storage mechanism.
- Mechanism asserted from morphology–performance correlation with no operando/in-situ or controlled-variation evidence.
- Capacity/rate claims at trivial loadings, cherry-picked cycles, or undisclosed conditions.
- Incremental composition variant with marginal improvement and no transferable insight.
- Device-engineering paper with no new materials understanding (better suited to a device venue).
- Computation-only study with no experimental anchor or tested prediction.
Re-routing decision
- Cell/electrode/electrolyte engineering and diagnostics read in device metrics →
journal-of-power-sources. - Systems-level energy integration / techno-economic scope →
applied-energy. - Solid electrolyte/membrane transport as the central separation science →
journal-of-membrane-science. - Structural-materials physical-metallurgy mechanism (non-storage) →
acta-materialia. - Highest-profile energy-materials breakthrough →
nature-energy,joule, ornature-catalysis(different selectivity/format; re-check).
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Energy Storage Materials
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest materials subtopics (electrode/electrolyte/interface)>
[Mechanism] <the structure–property–mechanism claim for charge storage in one line>
[Evidence] <operando/in-situ + controlled-variation support present?>
[Performance] <materials-baseline benchmark + conditions stated?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / highlights / characterization-reporting / data deposition / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if device/system-level, a better-matched venue>
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