001050181 001__ 1050181 001050181 005__ 20260113090847.0 001050181 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.3390/molecules30214270 001050181 0247_ $$2ISSN$$a1420-3049 001050181 0247_ $$2ISSN$$a1431-5157 001050181 0247_ $$2datacite_doi$$a10.34734/FZJ-2025-05877 001050181 037__ $$aFZJ-2025-05877 001050181 082__ $$a540 001050181 1001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)144509$$aChihaia, Viorel$$b0$$eCorresponding author 001050181 245__ $$aMolecular Simulations of Energy Materials 001050181 260__ $$aBasel$$bMDPI$$c2025 001050181 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aarticle 001050181 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Journal article 001050181 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)16$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aJournal Article$$bjournal$$mjournal$$s1768291564_9545 001050181 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 001050181 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aJOURNAL_ARTICLE 001050181 3367_ $$00$$2EndNote$$aJournal Article 001050181 500__ $$aISSN 1420-3049 not unique: **2 hits**. 001050181 520__ $$aThe accelerating demand for energy, coupled with the ongoing depletion of conventional energy resources and environmental problems, poses a critical challenge to the scientific community. Addressing this challenge requires the development of innovative materials capable of generating, converting, storing, and utilizing energy in ways that are both sustainable and environmentally benign. Understanding these complex systems—spanning diverse phenomena and interacting across multiple spatial (from atomic to macroscopic) and temporal (from femtoseconds to years) scales—demands an integrated scientific approach. While experimental research remains essential in uncovering the behavior of energy materials, especially under harsh environmental conditions, many microscopic-scale mechanisms remain poorly understood. This is where molecular-level computational simulations can play an important role. Advances in computer molecular sciences now offer powerful methods for probing the structure, dynamics, and reactivity of materials at the atomic and molecular levels, complementing experimental findings and offering predictive insights. In particular, molecular simulations—encompassing static modeling, molecular dynamics, and Monte Carlo methods—enable the exploration of energy materials under various conditions. These approaches can operate across quantum, classical, and coarse-grained frameworks, each providing valuable perspectives on intra- and intermolecular forces. Quantum mechanical methods reveal critical details of electronic structure, which underpin macroscopic properties and device performance, while atomistic and coarse-grained simulations offer scalable insights into larger systems and longer-time-scale processes. To fully capture the multiscale nature of energy materials, there is a growing need to integrate particle-based methods with continuum models through multiresolution and multiscale approaches. Such hybrid strategies promise to deepen our understanding of the fundamental phenomena governing the behavior of materials in real-world energy and environmental applications.This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in atomic-scale simulation methods and their application to energy materials science. 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