1st Edition
Metal-Air Batteries Principles, Progress, and Perspectives
Metal-Air Batteries: Principles, Progress, and Perspectives covers the entire spectrum of metal-air batteries, their working principles, recent advancement, and future perspectives. Leading international researchers address materials design, electrochemistry, and architectural aspects. The fundamentals of metal-air materials for cathode and anode, their synthetic approaches, chemistries to modify their properties to provide high energy and power densities, along with long life and stable electrochemical characteristics are detailed.
Key Features:
- Covers materials, chemistry, and technologies for metal-air batteries
- Reviews state-of-the-art progress and challenges in metal-air batteries
- Provides fundamentals of the electrochemical behavior of various metal-air batteries
- Offers insight into tuning the properties of materials to make them suitable for metal-air batteries
- Provides new direction and a better understanding to scientists, researchers, and students working in diverse fields
This is a unique offering and a valuable resource for a wide range of readers including those in academia and industries worldwide.
Chapter 01 Metal-Air Batteries: An Introduction
Felipe M. de Souza, Anuj Kumar, Ram K. Gupta
Chapter 02 Materials and Electrochemistry of Metal-Air Battery
Anubha Tomar, Sakshee Chandel, Alok Kumar Rai
Chapter 03 Electrochemical Fundamentals and Issues of Metal-Air Batteries
Shasha Lia, Enze Lib, Xiaowei And, Guoqing Guanc
Chapter 04 Mathematical Modeling for Enhanced Electrochemical Properties
Yuhui Tian, Shanqing Zhang, Yun Wang
Chapter 05 Materials and Technologies of Mg-Air Primary Batteries
Xingrui Chen, Qichi Le, Jeffrey Venezuela, Andrej Atrens
Chapter 06 Materials and Technologies of Al-Air Batteries
Weng Cheong Tan, Lip Huat Saw, Ming Chian Yew, Ming Kun Yew
Chapter 07 Materials and Technologies of Other Metal-air Batteries
Dhavalkumar N. Joshi, Vinod Kumar
Chapter 08 Novel Architectural Designs for Improved Performance
José Béjar, Minerva Guerra-Balcázar, Lorena Álvarez-Contreras, Noé Arjona
Chapter 09 Phase-Engineered Materials as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Metal-air Batteries
Mengyang Dong, Huajie Yin, Porun Liu, Huijun Zhao
Chapter 10 Noble Metal-based Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries
Jun Mei
Chapter 11 1D Materials as Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries
Merve Gençtürk, Emre Biçer
Chapter 12 2D Materials as Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries
Eren Kursun, Abdullah Uysal, Solen Kinayyigit
Chapter 13 3D Materials as Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries
Demet Ozer
Chapter 14 Carbon-based Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries
Zongge Li, Guoxin Zhang
Chapter 15 Metal Oxide-Based Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries
Bhugendra Chutia, Chiranjita Goswami, Pankaj Bharali
Chapter 16 Enhanced Performance of Lithium-Air Batteries by Improved Cathode Materials
B. Jeevanantham, M. K. Shobana
Chapter 17 Aqueous Electrolytes
Rijith S, Sarika S, Akhila M, Sumi V S
Chapter 18 Non-aqueous Electrolytes in Metal-Air Batteries
Pravin N. Didwal, An-Giang Nguyen, Satyanarayana Maddukuri, Rakesh Verma
Chapter 19 Ionic Electrolytes
Vandana, Fabeena Jahan, Anjali Paravannoor, Baiju Kizhakkekilikoodayil Vijayan
Chapter 20 Hybrid-Electrolyte Metal-Air Batteries
Yifei Wang, Xinhai Xu, Mingming Zhang, Meng Ni, Dennis Y.C. Leung
Chapter 21 Polymer Electrolytes
Changlin Liu, Shasha Li, Abuliti Abudula, Guoqing Guan
Chapter 22 Hydrogel Electrolytes
Siyuan Zhao, Tong Liu, Meng Ni
Chapter 23 Wearable Metal-Air Batteries
Arpana Agrawal, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
Chapter 24 Flexible Metal-Air Batteries
Runwei Mo
Chapter 25 Challenges in Metal-Air Batteries
Alexander Kube, Dennis Kopljar
Biography
Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor at Pittsburg State University. Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold, and antibacterial applications, bio-degradable metallic implants, green energy production, and storage using conducting polymers and composites, electrocatalysts for fuel cells, nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic hetero-junctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, Dr. Gupta has published over 225 peer-reviewed articles, made over 300 national/international/ regional presentations, chaired many sessions at national/international meetings, as well as writing and editing many books/chapters for the American Chemical Society, CRC, and Elsevier publishers. He has received over two million dollars for research and educational activities from external agencies and is serving as associate editor, guest editor, and editorial board member for various journals.