Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications
Metal–Air Batteries: Present and Perspectives
- 1st Edition - October 10, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Hajime Arai, Jürgen Garche, Luis C. Colmenares
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 4 3 3 3 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 4 3 3 4 - 6
Metal-air is a promising battery system that uses inexpensive metals for its negative electrode while unlimited, free and non-toxic oxygen is used for its positive electrode, ho… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMetal-air is a promising battery system that uses inexpensive metals for its negative electrode while unlimited, free and non-toxic oxygen is used for its positive electrode, however, only primary systems have been commercialized so far. Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications – Metal–Air Batteries: Present and Perspectives offers a comprehensive understanding of metal-air batteries as well as the solutions to the issues for overcoming the related difficulties of the secondary (rechargeable) system. Although metal-air batteries are widely studied as low-cost high-energy systems, their commercialization is limited to primary ones due to currently limited cycle life and insufficient reliability. For realization of the secondary systems, this book offers comprehensive understanding of metal-air batteries, including the details of both electrodes, electrolyte, cell/system, modelling and applications.
Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications – Metal–Air Batteries: Present and Perspectives
provides researchers, instructors, and students in electrochemistry, material science and environmental science; industry workers in cell manufacturing; and government officials in energy, environmental, power supply, and transportation with a valuable resource covering the most important topics of metal-air batteries and their uses.- Outlines the general characteristics of metal-air compared with conventional batteries
- Offers a comprehensive understanding of various metal-air, featuring zinc, and lithium
- Contains comparisons and issues among various metal-air batteries and research efforts to solve them
- Includes applications and market prospects
Researchers, instructors, and students in electrochemistry, materials science and environmental science; cell manufacturers; government officials in energy, environmental protection, power regulation, and transportation
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 10, 2020
- No. of pages (Paperback): 270
- No. of pages (eBook): 270
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444643339
- eBook ISBN: 9780444643346
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Hajime Arai
Hajime Arai is a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. He has 30 years of experience in battery including metal-air and solid oxide fuel cells and battery analysis using synchrotron beamlines.
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Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JapanJG
Jürgen Garche
Jürgen Garche, graduated in chemistry at the Dresden University of Technology (DTU) in Germany in 1967. He was awarded his PhD in theoretical electrochemistry in 1970 and his habilitation in applied electrochemistry in 1980 from the same university. He worked at the DTU in the Electrochemical Power Sources Group for many years in different projects, mainly related to conventional batteries, before he moved 1991 to the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) in Ulm, where he was, until 2004, the Head of the Electrochemical Energy Storage and Energy Conversion Division.
He was Professor of Electrochemistry at Ulm University and Guest Professor at Shandong University – China, 2005, Sapienca University Roma - Italy, 2009, 2013, 2016, and 2023, TUM-CREATE – Singapore, 2014, 2015, 2016- 2016, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics - China, 2016, CNR Institute for Advanced Energy Technologies, Messina - Italy, 2019. After he retired from the ZSW he founded in 2004 the consulting firm Fuel Cell and Battery Consulting (FCBAT). Since 2015 he is senior professor at Ulm University. He has published more than 300 papers, 10 patents, and 11 books, among others as editor-in-chief of the first edition of Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources. He is listed in “World’s most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomas Reuters (2014) and in the book “Profiles of 93 Influential Electrochemists” (2015).
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Senior Professor, Ulm University, Ulm, GermanyLC
Luis C. Colmenares
Luis C. Colmenares is an R&D professional at CIDETEC Energy Storage, Gipuzcoa, Spain. He has more than 15 years of experience in material R&D for fuel cells, electrolyzers, and metal-air batteries, particularly zinc-based
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CIDETEC Energy Storage, Donastia-San Sebastián, SpainRead Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications on ScienceDirect