Battery technology is constantly changing, and the concepts and applications of these changes are rapidly becoming increasingly more important as more and more industries and individuals continue to make “greener” choices in their energy sources. As global dependence on fossil fuels slowly wanes, there is a heavier and heavier importance placed on cleaner power sources and methods for storing and transporting that power. Battery technology is a huge part of this global energy revolution.
Rechargeable battery technologies have been a milestone for moving toward a fossil-fuel-free society. They include groundbreaking changes in energy storage, transportation, and electronics. Improvements in battery electrodes and electrolytes have been a remarkable development, and, in the last few years, rechargeable batteries have attracted significant interest from scientists as they are a boon for electric vehicles, laptops and computers, mobile phones, portable electronics, and grid-level electricity storage devices.
Rechargeable Batteries: History, Progress, and Applicationsoutlines the history, development, future, and applications for rechargeable batteries for energy storage applications. It also provides an in-depth description of various energy storage materials and is an invaluable reference guide for electrochemists, chemical engineers, students, faculty, and R&D professionals in energy storage science, material science, and renewable energy. This is a must-have for any engineer’s library who works with batteries and energy storage.
Table of Contents
Preface xvii1 Progress in Separators for Rechargeable Batteries 1
Cheng-song Yang, Dian-hui Han and Meng Zhang
2 Pb Acid Batteries 17
Hasan Jafari and Mohammad Reza Rahimpour
3 Flexible Batteries 41
Muhammad Inam Khan,Muhammad Mudassir Hassan, Abdur Rahim and Nawshad Muhammad
4 Polymer Electrolytes in Rechargeable Batteries 61
Yogesh Kumar, Meenal Gupta, Ashwani Kumar and N. B. Singh
5 Advancement in Electrolytes for Rechargeable Batteries 87
Prasun Banerjee, Adolfo Franco Jr, R. Z. Xiao, K. Chandra Babu Naidu, R. M. Rao, Ramyakrishna Pothu and Rajender Boddula
6 Fabrication Assembly Techniques for K-Ion Batteries 99
Praachi Kapoor, Parul Khurana, Christinee Jeyseelen, Dinesh Kumar and Sheenam Thatai
7 Recent Advances in Ni-Fe Batteries as Electrical Energy Storage Devices 115
K. Chandra Babu Naidu, N. Suresh Kumar, H. Manjunatha, Prasun Benerjee, D. Baba Basha, S. Naresh Kumar, Ramyakrishna Pothu and Rajender Boddula
8 Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) Batteries 131
Sandeep Arya and Sonali Verma
9 Ni-Cd Batteries 177
Christine Jeyaseelan, Antil Jain, Parul Khurana, Dinesh Kumar and Sheenam Thatai
10 Ca-Ion Batteries 195
Arti Jain and Ritu Payal
11 Analytical Investigations in Rechargeable Batteries 217
Bhawana Jain, Sunita Singh, Anupama Asthana, Ajaya Kumar Singh and Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan
12 Remediation of Spent Rechargeable Batteries 237
Amal I. Hassan and Hosam M. Saleh
13 Classification, Modeling, and Requirements for Separators in Rechargeable Batteries 265
Zahra Pezeshki
14 Research and Development and Commercialization in Rechargeable Batteries 315
Nelson Pynadathu Rumjit, Paul Thomas, Jishnu Naskar, George Thomas, P.J. George, Chin Wei Lai, Mohd Rafie Bin Johan and Elizabeth George
15 Alkaline Batteries 357
Sapna Raghav, Jyoti Raghav, Praveen Kumar Yadav and Dinesh Kumar
16 Advances in “Green” Ion-Batteries Using Aqueous Electrolytes 379
Chenar A. Tahir, Charu Agarwal and Levente Csóka
17 K-Ion Batteries 403
Mohd Imran Ahamed and Naushad Anwar
18 Li-S Batteries 425
Nitin Kumar Sharma and Dinesh Kumar
19 Aqueous Na-Air Batteries 441
Mehdi Dehghan Manshadi and Mohammad Reza Rahimpour
Index 465
