Electrochemical Potassium Storage
Principles, Materials, and Technological Development
- 1st Edition - September 19, 2024
- Latest edition
- Editor: Yang XU
- Language: English
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Description
Description
Electrochemical potassium storage explores the principles, materials, and technological developments of a variety of battery technologies based on electrochemical potassium storage. It covers the principles of potassium-ion batteries (organic and aqueous electrolytes), potassium metal batteries, potassium-sulfur (selenium) batteries, and potassium-oxygen batteries, as well as the development of the electrode materials of these batteries and the understanding of electrochemical cell operations.
Batteries using potassium ions as the charge carrier to store energy operate via different electrochemical processes and have different features of materials electrochemistry compared to lithium-based batteries. Thus, battery technologies based on electrochemical potassium storage exhibit different performance strengths, potentially having diverse market applications. This is particularly important for the search for environmentally and economically sustainable alternatives to conventional lithium-ion batteries in a wide range of applications.
This book presents the state-of-the-art development of potassium-based batteries and in-depth discussion on their structure-to-performance relationships.
Key features
Key features
- Addresses the urgent need to develop sustainable energy storage technologies beyond lithium
- Describes the fundamental principles of a variety of potassium-based battery chemistries
- Analyzes the structure-to-performance relationship of various potassium-based battery materials
- Provides insights into the structural designs of materials and electrodes for potassium-based batteries
Readership
Readership
Researchers, postgrad students, and industrial R&D professionals in materials science and electrochemistry. Editor clarified in his response to the reviews that "The book falls clearly into materials science (as in the functionality of materials and the engineering of materials to tune their functionalities) and electrochemistry (as in how materials science is applied in solving scientific questions in an electrochemistry setting)" so it would appear to be well-grounded in materials science. The book will also be of interest to the same groups (researchers, postgrad students, and industrial R&D professionals) in solid-state science, nanostructures, chemical engineering, and renewable energy
Table of contents
Table of contents
2: Potassium-ion battery cathode – Prussian blue analogues
3: Potassium-ion battery cathode – polyanionic compounds
4: Potassium-ion battery anode – carbon
5: Potassium-ion battery anode – alloys
6: Potassium-ion battery anode – metal sulfides
7: Potassium-ion battery cathode and anode – organic materials
8: Organic electrolytes for potassium-ion battery
9: Aqueous potassium-ion battery
10: Potassium/sulfur and potassium/selenium batteries
11: Potassium metal battery
12: Potassium anode-free (anode-less) battery
13: Potassium-oxygen battery
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 25, 2024
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
YX
Yang XU
Dr Yang Xu is an Associate Professor in Energy Storage in the Department of Chemistry at University College London (UCL). He received his PhD at the University of Science and Technology of China, with the Chu Yuet Wah Chinese Academy of Sciences Award for Outstanding Doctoral Students. He then carried out his postdoctoral research at Boston College (US) and the University of Alberta (Canada), followed by working as a Senior Scientist at Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany). He joined UCL Chemistry as an Assistant Professor in 2019 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2023. He is the program director of the MSc Materials for Energy and Environment. His research focuses on next-generation battery materials and chemistries, with special interest in cation intercalation, metal batteries, and anionic redox activities. He has received research fundings from various funders including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Faraday Institution, the Royal Society, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Leverhulme Trust, and UCL. He is the recipient of the MINE Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2019), the EPSRC New Investigator Award (2020), and the STFC Early Career Award (2023). He is a member of the editorial board of JPhys Mater. (IOP), the advisory boards of J. Mater. Chem. A and Mater. Adv. (RSC), and the youth editorial boards of Sci. China. Mater. (Springer) and eScience (Elsevier).