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Advanced Electrochemical Materials and Devices for Clean Energy and Environment

  • Book

  • May 2025
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 6026981
Advanced Electrochemical Materials and Devices for Clean Energy and Environment presents recent advancements, revolutionary breakthroughs, and unraveled challenges in the development of electrochemical materials and devices for energy and environmental applications. The book discusses the latest trends in synthesis, processing, fabrication, characterization, and properties of materials. In addition, it highlights novel sustainable materials such as natural polysaccharides, biochar, plant-waste, animal-waste, other waste materials as promising substitutes for use in next-generation electrochemical devices.

The book also demonstrates crossroads research where the electrochemical removal of pollutants can be coupled with the electrical energy production, such as in biological fuel cells; desalination batteries/supercapacitors; and other integrated devices. This is a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, scientists, and professionals from a variety of sectors, including electrochemists, chemical engineers, environmental scientists, materials scientists, and energy researchers across academia and industry.

Table of Contents

PART 1: BASICS AND FUNDAMENTALS
1. Introduction to electrochemistry and its scope in energy and environment A greener approach
2. Road to Sustainable electrochemical materials for clean energy and environment

PART 2: ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS
3. Emerging electrodes for electrochemical energy devices
4. New electrolytes formulation for electrochemical energy devices
5. Futuristic Metal-ion Supercapacitors/batteries (Zn, Na, K, Al, Mg, Ca) beyond Li-ion configurations
6. Revolutionary Hybrid Supercap-batteries- High energy and high-power energy devices
7. Trending Wearable/Flexible electrochemical devices
8. Current progress in Electrocatalysts for energy and environment
9. Breakthroughs in Electrochemical treatment of environment pollutants
10. Critical advances in Electrochemical Sensors for environmental monitoring

PART 3: CROSS-ROAD RESEARCH AND FUTURE SCOPE
11. Innovations in Fuel cells/Biofuel cells From Wastewater to energy
12. Integrated electrochemical devices-Desalination Supercapacitors/batteries and others
13. Overview on Safety assessment and Life-cycle analysis of electrochemical devices
14. Highlights on Industrial case studies, patented research and commercialised electrochemical

Authors

Zeba Khanam College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China. Dr. Zeba Khanam received a Ph.D. in Environmental science from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India and later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China. Her research work encompasses a broad spectrum of energy and environmental applications including electrochemical energy storage materials, flexible electrodes, polymer electrolytes, anticorrosive coatings, electrochemical sensing, and water quality assessment. She published 12 scientific articles in leading international journals, 5 popular articles in national magazines, 7 book chapters and a book (2D nanomaterials for energy and environmental sustainability, Springer Nature) as a lead editor. She has presented her work at numerous national/international conferences including the most prestigious RSC FD-173 event, London, UK. She is a recipient of national/international fellowships and recently received NESA Junior Scientist-2020 award from National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), India. She is serving as a guest editor of special issue-Electrochemical Sensors, Sensors, MDPI and a reviewer for reputed journals of Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and T&F. She holds the membership of scientific societies namely, RSC-London, NESA-India, and ISCA-India. Divesh Narayan Srivastava Senior Principal Scientist (CSIR) and Professor (AcSIR), Analytical and Environmental Science Division and CIF, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, India. Dr. Divesh Narayan Srivastava currently holds the position of the senior principal scientist at CSIR-CSMCRI, India, and a professor, AcSIR. He graduated from BHU, India, in 1999, followed by spent few years at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and IIT Bombay, India, as a postdoctoral fellow. His current research interest includes electrochemical sensors and electrocatalysis. He has 98 research papers, 3 book chapters, 1 book and 4 patents in his credit and developed technologies such as "Plastic chip electrodes� and "Tailored Potentiostat�. He is a guest editor of a special issue-Electrochemical Sensors, Sensors, MDPI. He is associate fellow of Gujarat Science Academy and is a recognized member of several other national/international scientific and administrative organizations. Muhammad-Sadeeq Balogun Adetunji