Flow Batteries presents a comprehensive examination of this critical energy storage technology at the forefront of renewable energy integration. Compiling all the major topics in one book, chapters are authored by experts in energy areas, providing state-of-the-art information about flow batteries, their challenges, and applications.
Flow Batteries presents a comprehensive examination of this critical energy storage technology at the forefront of renewable energy integration.
Compiling all the major topics in one book, chapters are authored by experts in energy areas, providing state-of-the-art information about flow batteries, their challenges, and applications. Detailed coverage is given to the chemistry and electrochemical characteristics of flow batteries, as well as offering insight into tuning the properties of redox-active materials to improve their electrochemical performances. It provides new directions to scientists, researchers, and students to better understand the principles, technologies, and challenges in flow batteries.
This is a timely resource for students studying materials science, and for researchers working in the green energy, materials, and nanotechnology industries.
1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of Flow Batteries
3. Materials and
Chemicals of Flow Batteries
4. Materials for Flow Battery: Chemical
Structures, Compositions, and Chemistries
5. Molecular Engineering Strategies
for Flow Batteries
6. Electrocatalysts for Flow Batteries
7. Electrolytes for
Flow Batteries
8. Advancements in Electrocatalysts: Powering the Future of
Flow Battery Technology
9. Recent developments in Membrane for Flow Batteries
10. Microfluidic Flow Batteries
11. Performance Evaluation and Modeling of
Flow Batteries
12. Flow Battery Dynamics: Analyzing Performance and Modeling
13. Flowing Power: Innovations in Alkaline Batteries
14. Alkaline Flow
Batteries
15. Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFB)
16. Zinc-Nickel Flow
Batteries
17. Current Progress and Perspective of Rechargeable Zinc-Bromine
Flow Batteries
18. Organic Solar Flow Batteries: Prospect, Feasibility and
Challenge
19. Other Flow Battery Chemistries
20. Emerging Applications of
Flow Batteries
21. Challenges and Limitations
Ram K. Gupta is a Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. He is the Associate Vice President for Research Strategy and Advancement at Pittsburg State University. He has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2 percent of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. His research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including semiconducting materials and devices, biopolymers, flameretardant polymers, green energy production and storage using nanostructured materials and conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organicinorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, and biodegradable metallic implants. He has mentored ten Ph.D./Postdoc scholars, 76 MS students, and 58 undergraduate/high school students. He has published over 400 peerreviewed journal articles (15000+ citations, 67 hindex, 312 i10index); presented more than 650 national, international, regional presentations; chaired and organized many sessions at national and international meetings; wrote several book chapters (150+); worked as editor for many books (60+) for American Chemical Society, CRC, Springer, Elsevier, etc.; and received several million dollars for research and educational activities from external agencies. He is also serving as editor, associate editor, guest editor, and editorial board member of various journals.
