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Smart Supercapacitors

Fundamentals, Structures, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - October 19, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: M. Basheer Ahamed, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
  • Language: English

Smart Supercapacitors: Fundamentals, Structures and Applications presents current research and technology surrounding smart supercapacitors, also exploring their rapidly emergi… Read more

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Description

Smart Supercapacitors: Fundamentals, Structures and Applications presents current research and technology surrounding smart supercapacitors, also exploring their rapidly emerging characteristics and future potential advancements. The book begins by describing the basics and fundamentals related to supercapacitors and their applicability as smart and next generation energy storing devices. Subsequent sections discuss electrode materials, their fabrication, specific designing techniques, and a review of the application and commercialization of this technology. This book will appeal to researchers and engineers from both academia and industry, making it a vital resource to help them revolutionize modern supercapacitors.

Key features

  • Explores the potential applications of supercapacitors
  • Covers the entire spectrum of new advances and recent trends on research in supercapacitors
  • Explains reliability, safety, economics and market trends surrounding the use of supercapacitors from a sustainable perspective

Readership

Materials Scientists and Engineers in academia and R & D. Mechanical and Chemical Engineers

Table of contents

Part One: Fundamentals of supercapacitors

1 General introduction about electrochemistry and supercapacitors

2 Historical perspective of electrochemical energy storage devices

3 Supercapacitors—new developments

4 Fundamental understanding of charge storage mechanism

5 Fundamentals of supercapacitors

6 Research and technology on smart supercapacitors

7 Rapidly emerging aspects & future R&D directions for supercapacitor

8 Smart supercapacitors—a new perspective

Part Two: Material for Supercapacitors

9 Electrode materials for EDLC and pseudocapacitors

10 Hybrid supercapacitors, formation, and new advances with different electrochemical electrodes based on layered double hydroxides (LDHs), metal–organic framework (MOF) materials, smart supercapacitors

11 Electrolyte materials for supercapacitors

12 Nanomaterials for supercapacitors

13 Nanocarbons (graphene, etc.), MXenes for energy storage applications

14 Novel designs of carbon electrodes for the technological improvement of electrochemical capacitors

Part Three: Structures for Supercapacitors

15 Design and fabrication of supercapacitors

16 Development of symmetric and asymmetric supercapacitors–a step towards efficient and practical energy storage

17 Metal-based hybrid capacitors

18 Recent progress on materials, architecture, and performances of hybrid battery-supercapacitors

Part Four: Smart Supercapacitors

19 Transport supercapacitors

20 Flexible supercapacitors

21 Recent advances in microsupercapacitors: material design, system construction, and applications

22 Wearable supercapacitors

23 Stretchable supercapacitor

24 Healable supercapacitors

Part Five: Sustainable Supercapacitor

25 Industrial manufacturing of supercapacitors

26 Testing and measurement techniques for supercapacitors

27 Comparison between supercapacitors and other energy storing electrochemical devices

28 Sustainability of current state-of-the-art supercapacitors: a case study

29 Quasi-solid-state electrolytes for pseudocapacitors and batteries

Part Six: Current problems and future development directions of Smart Supercapacitors

30 Commercialization and market for supercapacitor

31 Potential impact of smart-hybrid supercapacitors in novel electronic devices and electric vehicles

32 Future of smart supercapacitors

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 7, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

MA

M. Basheer Ahamed

Prof. M. Basheer Ahamed is a Professor and Dean, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Tambaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His current research interests include supercapacitors, polymer nanocomposite materials for energy storage and EMI shielding applications, nanomaterials, nonlinear optics, laser materials and crystal growth. He has published more than 115 research papers in reputed peer-reviewed international journals, 30 book chapters and edited six books with Springer, Elsevier, ACS and RSC.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Dean, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Tambaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

CM

Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research focuses on sustainability, the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 200 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor and Director of Chemistry & EVSC Labs, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA

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