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Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Materials, Challenges and Applications

  • 1st Edition - March 5, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ram K. Gupta, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Huaihe Song, Ghulam Yasin
  • Language: English

Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Materials, Challenges, and Applications presents the advantages of lithium-sulfur batteries, such as high theoretical capacity, low cost, and stability… Read more

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Description

Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Materials, Challenges, and Applications presents the advantages of lithium-sulfur batteries, such as high theoretical capacity, low cost, and stability, while also addressing some of the existing challenges. Some of the challenges are low electrical conductivity, the possible reaction of sulfur with lithium to form a soluble lithium salt, the formation of the dendrimer, large volume variation of cathode materials during the electrochemical reaction, and shuttle behavior of highly soluble intermediate polysulfides in the electrolyte. This book provides some possible solutions to these issues through novel architecture, using composite materials, doping to improve low conductivity, etc., as well as emphasizing novel materials, architectural concepts, and methods to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries.

Key features

  • Covers the state-of-the-art progress on materials, technology, and challenges for lithium-sulfur batteries
  • Presents novel synthetic approaches, characterizations, and applications of nanostructured and 2D nanomaterials for energy applications
  • Provides fundamentals of electrochemical behavior and their understanding at nanoscale for emerging applications in lithium-sulfur batteries

Readership

Academics and industry professionals working in the field of energy materials, nanotechnology, and energy devices, Mechanical and Chemical Engineers

Table of contents

PART 1: BASIC PRINCIPLES

1. Introduction to electrochemical energy storage technologies

2. A recent development in Li-S batteries

3. Chemistry and operation of Li–S batteries

4. High-performance Lithium-Sulfur batteries: Role of nanotechnology and nanoengineering

5. Mathematical modeling of Li–S batteries

6. Nanomaterials for advanced Li-S batteries: An introduction

7. Nanocomposites for binder-free Li-S electrodes

8. Separators for Li–S batteries

9. Progress and Perspective of separators towards high-performance lithium sulfur batteries

10. Electrolytes for Li–S batteries

PART 2: NANOMATERIALS AND NANOSTRUCTURES FOR SULFUR CATHODES

11. Porous carbon-sulfur composite cathodes

12. Recent advancement on nanocomposites of carbon / sulfur electrodes for lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries

13. Advances in nanomaterials for sulfurized carbon cathodes

14. Graphene-sulfur composite cathodes

15. Nanocomposites of graphene-sulfur as cathode materials and separators for Li-S batteries

16. Graphene-sulfur nanohybrids for cathodes in Li-S batteries

17. Metal-organic framework-based cathode materials in Li-S batteries

18. MXene-based sulfur composite cathodes

19. Polymeric nanocomposites for Li-S batteries

20. Design of nanostructured sulfur cathodes for high-performance lithium-sulfur battery

21. Nanostructured additives and binders for sulfur cathodes

PART 3: LITHIUM METAL ANODES: MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

22. Metallic Li anode: An introduction

23. Advanced carbon-based nanostructured framework for Li anodes

24. Carbon-based anode materials for lithium-ion batteries

PART 4: APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

25. Li-S batteries for marine applications

26. Two-dimensional layered materials for flexible electronics and batteries

27. Sustainability in Li–S batteries

28. Recyclability and recycling technologies for lithium-sulfur batteries

29. Recyclability, circular economy, and environmental aspects of Lithium-sulfur batteries

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 5, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

RG

Ram K. Gupta

Ram Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University, Kansas, United States. His research focus is in green energy production and storage using nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, conducting polymers and composites as well as bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA

TN

Tuan Anh Nguyen

Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

HS

Huaihe Song

Huaihe Song is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Materials and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He has 28 years of experience in the field of carbon materials research. His research area is in the preparation of advanced carbon materials and their applications, including pitch-based carbon materials (mesophase pitch and mesocarbon microbeads), carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon-encapsulated metal nanomaterials, and onion-like carbons), carbon-based materials for energy storage (lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors), and mesoporous carbons (ordered mesoporous carbons and carbon aerogels).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Materials and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

GY

Ghulam Yasin

Ghulam Yasin is a researcher in the School of Environment and Civil Engineering at Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China. His expertise covers the design and development of hybrid devices and technologies of carbon nanostructures and advanced nanomaterials for for real-world impact in energy-related and other functional applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Researcher, School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China

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