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Nanostructured Lithium-ion Battery Materials

Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - October 17, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sabu Thomas, Oumarou Savadogo, Amadou Belal Gueye, Hanna J. Maria
  • Language: English

Nanostructured Lithium-ion Battery Materials: Synthesis and Applications provides a detailed overview of nanostructured materials for application in Li-ion batteries, supportin… Read more

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Description

Nanostructured Lithium-ion Battery Materials: Synthesis and Applications provides a detailed overview of nanostructured materials for application in Li-ion batteries, supporting improvements in materials selection and battery performance. The book begins by presenting the fundamentals of Lithium-ion batteries, including electrochemistry and reaction mechanism, advantages and disadvantages of Li-ion batteries, and characterization methods. Subsequent sections provide in-depth coverage of a range of nanostructured materials as applied to cathodes, electrolytes, separators, and anodes. Finally, other key aspects are discussed, including industrial scale-up, safety, life cycle analysis, recycling, and future research trends.

This is a valuable resource for researchers, faculty, and advanced students across nanotechnology, materials science, battery technology, energy storage, chemistry, applied physics, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering. In an industrial setting, this book will be of interest to scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals working with advanced materials for Li-ion batteries and other energy storage applications.

Key features

  • Introduces fundamental of Lithium-ion batteries, electrochemistry, and characterization methods
  • Offers in-depth information on nanostructured cathode, electrolyte, separator, and anode materials
  • Addresses lab to industry challenges, safety, lifecycle analysis, recycling, and future opportunities

Readership

Academia: Researchers, professors, and advanced students across nanotechnology, battery technology, materials science, energy storage, chemistry, applied physics, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering. Industry: Scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals with an interest in advanced materials for Li-ion batteries and other energy storage applications.

Table of contents

Part I: Introduction to Lithium-ion Battery Systems

1. Introduction and History of Lithium-ion Batteries

2. Electrochemistry and Basic Reaction Mechanism of Lithium-ion Batteries

3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Lithium-ion Batteries

4. Characterization Methods for Lithium-ion Batteries

Part II: Nanostructured Cathode Materials for Li-ion Batteries

5. Hollow Carbon Spheres and Their Hybrid Nanomaterials as Cathode Materials

6. Nanostructured Conductive Polymers as Active Electrode Composites

7. Nanostructured Metal-Oxides as Cathode Materials

Part III: Nanostructured Electrolyte Materials for Li-ion Batteries

8. Aqueous Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries

9. Non-aqueous Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries

10. Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries

11. Hybrid Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries

Part IV: Nanostructured Separator Materials for Li-ion Batteries

12. Functionalized Polyolefin Separators

13. Nanostructures Separators Based on Non-Polyolefin Polymers

Part V: Nanostructured Anode Materials for Li-ion Batteries

14. CNT-Metal Oxide Composites as Cathode Materials

15. Carbonaceous Nanostructured Materials as Anodes

16. Titanium based Oxides as Anodes

17. Metal Alloys Materials as Anodes

18. Nanostructured Transition Metal Oxides as Anodes

19. MXene-based Nanomaterials as Anode Materials

20. Lignocellulosic Biomass Generated Activated Carbon Synthesis and its Application as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries.

Part VI: Future Outlook and Challenges

21. Lithium Ion Batteries: From Lab to Industry and Safety

22. Life-Cycle Analysis of Lithium-Ion Batteries

23. Lithium-Ion Batteries: Future Market Challenges and Recycling

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 23, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

ST

Sabu Thomas

Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India; Department of Physics and Electronics, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Center of Excellence in Polymeric Materials for Medical Practice Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

OS

Oumarou Savadogo

Prof. Oumarou Savadogo is Full Professor and UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Engineering and Applied Solar Technologies, at Polytechnique Montréal, Quebec, Canada. With a background in materials science, he was also previously a process engineer at Rhône-Siltec (production of silicon for photovoltaic solar cells) and a postdoctoral fellow at CNRS-Bellevue, both in France. At Polytechnique Montréal, he is Founding Director of the Laboratory of New Materials for Energy and Electrochemistry, and is responsible for the graduate programs on Renewable Energy in Energy Engineering and Energy and Sustainable Development in Chemical Engineering. Prof. Savadogo’s research interests include the development of new materials for solar energy, fuel cells, batteries, electrochemical capacitors, electrochemistry, metallurgical processes, corrosion, and microbial cells. He is author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications in refereed scientific journals, Founding Editor of the Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems, and a member of the advisory/editorial boards of the Journal of Enzyme Engineering, the Journal of Materials, Membranes, and Discover Energy. He is also member of the Broad of Directors and Advisory Board of the International Hydrogen Energy Association.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Engineering and Applied Solar Technologies, at Polytechnique Montréal, Quebec, Canada

AG

Amadou Belal Gueye

Amadou Belal Gueye is a Research Scholar at the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics-chemistry and his master’s degree in physical chemistry applied to energy and analysis, from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal. He works in the field of lithium/sulfur batteries.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scholar, School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India

HM

Hanna J. Maria

Hanna J. Maria is a Senior Researcher at the School of Energy Materials and the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Her research focusses on natural rubber composites and their blends, thermoplastic composites, lignin, nanocellulose, bionanocomposites, nanocellulose, rubber-based composites and nanocomposites.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, Mahatma Gandhi University, India

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