This volume covers recent advanced battery systems such as metal-ion, hybrid, and metal-air batteries. It includes an introduction to fluoride, potassium, zinc, chloride, aluminium, and iron-ion batteries; special or hybrid batteries are included, with calcium, nuclear, thermal, and lithium-magnesium hybrid batteries also explained. It summarizes the recent progress and chemistry behind the popular metal-air batteries, including a systematic overview of the components, design, and integration of these new battery technologies.
Features:
Covers recent battery technologies in detail, from the chemistry to advances in post-lithium-ion batteries Various post-lithium-ion batteries are discussed in detail Includes a section on ion batteries, exploring new types of metal-ion batteries Focuses in each chapter on a particular battery type, including different metal-ion batteries such as zinc, potassium, aluminium, and their air version batteries Provides authoritative coverage of scientific content via global contributing experts
This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and professionals in materials science, chemical and electrical engineering, and electrochemistry.
Chapter
1. Chloride Ion Batteries.
Chapter
2. Potassium-Ion Batteries:
Recent Trends and Challenges.
Chapter
3. Zinc-Ion Batteries: Materials to
Mechanism of Energy Storage.
Chapter
4. Recent Advances and Trends in Al-Ion
Batteries.
Chapter
5. Characterization of Electrochemical Behaviour of all
Iron-Ion Batteries for Grid-Scale Applications.
Chapter
6. Calcium Ion
Batteries.
Chapter
7. Nuclear Batteries: An Overview.
Chapter
8.
MagnesiumLithium Hybrid Batteries.
Chapter
9. Metal-Air Batteries: Future of
Hybrid or Electric Vehicles (HEV or EV).
Chapter
10. Lithium-Air Batteries:
Batteries for Emerging Electric or Hybrid Electric Vehicles (EV or HEV), a
Focus into General Aspects and Electrolyte Engineering.
Chapter
11.
Lithium-Air Batteries: State-of-the-Art Developments in Anode, Cathode, and
Electrocatalyst.
Chapter
12. Emerging Magnesium-Air Battery Technology:
Electrolyte and Anodic Materials.
Chapter
13. Emerging Magnesium-Air Battery
Technology: Cathodic Materials.
Chapter
14. Advancements in Sodium-Air
Batteries: General Electrochemical Mechanisms and Advances.
Chapter
15.
Emerging Sodium-Air Batteries: Developments in Anode Stabilization.
Chapter
16. Advancements in Air Cathodes in Sodium-Air Batteries: Cathode Materials.
Chapter
17. Innovative Design Strategies in Electrolyte Engineering and
Separator Modifications for Sodium-Air Batteries.
Chapter
18. Rechargeable
Zn-air Battery: Current challenges and opportunities.
Chapter
19. Emerging
Cost-Efficient Aluminium-Air Battery Technology-Anode Materials.
Chapter
20.
Emerging Cost-Efficient Aluminium-Air Battery Technology: Cathode Materials.
Chapter
21. Emerging Cost-Efficient Aluminium-Air Battery Technology:
Electrolyte Materials
Prasanth Raghavan is a Professor, at Materials Science and NanoEngineering Lab (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Visiting Professor at Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Center, SRUC (Scotlands Rural College), Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK and at Department of Materials Engineering and Convergence Technology, Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea.
Akhila Das is a graduate student pursuing Ph.D. at Materials Science and NanoEngineering Lab (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (PSRT), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India.
Jabeen Fatima M. J has recently joined Carborundum Universal Limited as Manager of Technology. She was previously engaged as a research scientist at Materials Science and NanoEngineering Lab (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (PSRT), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India. Before joining MSNE Lab, she was working as a tentative Assistant Professor at Department of NanoScience and Technology, University of Calicut, India.