Electrochemical Potassium Storage
Principles, Materials, and Technological Development
- 1st Edition - September 19, 2024
- Editor: Yang XU
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 8 9 1 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 8 9 0 - 4
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Request a sales quoteElectrochemical 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.
- 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
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
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- About the editor
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Potassium-ion battery cathode-layered transition metal oxides
- Abstract
- 1.1 Layered cathode materials
- 1.2 Families of layered materials in KxMO2
- 1.3 Ternary metal oxides and beyond
- 1.4 The impact of K size: diffraction
- 1.5 Local structure and evolution
- 1.6 Insights
- References
- 2. Potassium-ion battery cathode—Prussian blue analogs
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The history of Prussian blue analogs as potassium-ion battery cathodes
- 2.3 Material structures and electrochemical mechanisms
- 2.4 Synthesis methods
- 2.5 Typical Prussian blue analogs for potassium-ion batteries
- 2.6 Strategies to imporve the electrochemical performance of Prussian blue analogs
- 2.7 Conclusions
- References
- 3. Potassium-ion battery cathode—polyanionic compounds
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Basic properties of polyanionic compounds
- 3.3 Methods to prepare polyanionic compounds
- 3.4 Crystalline structure to electrochemical performance
- 3.5 Morphology to electrochemical performance
- 3.6 Summary and outlooks
- References
- 4. Potassium-ion battery anode—carbon
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Improving the performance of carbon-based anodes for potassium-ion batteries
- 4.3 Conclusion
- 4.4 Artificial intelligence disclosure
- References
- 5. Potassium-ion battery anode—alloys
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Alloy-type anodes for potassium-ion batteries
- 5.3 Synthesis methods for nanostructured alloy-type anodes
- 5.4 Typical alloy-type anodes for potassium-ion batteries
- 5.5 Electrolyte compatibility with alloy-type anodes
- 5.6 Full cell potassium-ion batteries using alloy-type anodes
- 5.7 Summary and outlooks
- References
- 6. Potassium-ion battery anode—metal sulfides
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Material overview
- 6.3 Application in potassium-ion batteries
- 6.4 Strategies to boost potassium storage
- 6.5 Conclusions
- References
- 7. Potassium-ion battery cathode and anode—organic materials
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 n-Type organic redox compounds
- 7.3 p-Type and bipolar organic electrode materials
- 7.4 Summary and perspectives for organic electrode materials
- References
- 8. Organic electrolytes for potassium-ion battery
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Transport properties of electrolytes for potassium-ion batteries
- 8.3 Developing highly compatible organic electrolytes for potassium-ion batteries
- 8.4 Conclusions
- References
- 9. Aqueous potassium-ion battery
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Electrodes for aqueous potassium-ion batteries
- 9.3 Electrolytes for aqueous potassium-ion batteries
- 9.4 Summary and outlooks
- References
- 10. Potassium/sulfur and potassium/selenium battery
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Fundamental electrochemistry of K–S and K–Se systems
- 10.3 Porosity and architecture of carbon hosts for sulfur and selenium cathodes
- 10.4 Advances in solving the issue of polysulfides/polyselenides dissolution
- 10.5 Conclusions
- References
- 11. Potassium metal battery
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Basics of potassium
- 11.3 New scientific insights for K metal anodes
- 11.4 Advanced characterization technologies
- 11.5 Technoeconomic analysis
- 11.6 Conclusions and outlook
- 11.7 Supplementary
- References
- 12. Potassium anode-free (anode-less) battery
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Strategies to enhance the performance of AFPMBs
- 12.3 Conclusion and outlooks
- References
- 13. Potassium–oxygen battery
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Key advantages of K–O2 batteries
- 13.3 Misconceptions about K–O2 batteries
- 13.4 Challenges and limitations
- 13.5 Beyond potassium superoxide
- 13.6 Summary
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 19, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443138911
- eBook ISBN: 9780443138904
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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).