Editorial: Sodium-ion batteries: From materials discovery and understanding to cell development

The rapid growth in the worldwide battery demand has accelerated the search for efficient, low cost, and sustainable batteries able to satisfy different markets, including portable electronics, the electrified mobility sector, and stationary applications. Several emerging battery technologies are considered to share the dominant position currently held by lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Among them, owing to their conceivable lower costs and higher sustainabilities, sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have the potential to dominate the future stationary storage market and to contribute to the electrified transport sector (Hasa et al., 2021; Tapia-ruiz et al., 2021).