Inorganic Battery Materials

A guide to the fundamental chemistry and recent advances of battery materials

 

In one comprehensive volume, Inorganic Battery Materials explores the basic chemistry principles, recent advances, and the challenges and opportunities of the current and emerging technologies of battery materials. With contributions from an international panel of experts, this authoritative resource contains information on the fundamental features of battery materials, discussions on material synthesis, structural characterizations and electrochemical reactions. 
 

The book explores a wide range of topics including the state-of-the-art lithium ion battery chemistry to more energy-aggressive chemistries involving lithium metal. The authors also include a review of sulfur and oxygen, aqueous battery chemistry, redox flow battery chemistry, solid state battery chemistry and environmentally beneficial carbon dioxide battery chemistry. In the context of renewable energy utilization and transportation electrification, battery technologies have been under more extensive and intensive development than ever. This important book: 

• Provides an understanding of the chemistry of a battery technology
• Explores battery technology's potential as well as the obstacles that hamper the potential from being realized
• Highlights new applications and points out the potential growth areas that can serve as inspirations for future research
• Includes an understanding of the chemistry of battery materials and how they store and convert energy

Written for students and academics in the fields of energy materials, electrochemistry, solid state chemistry, inorganic materials chemistry and materials science, Inorganic Battery Materials focuses on the inorganic chemistry of battery materials associated with both current and future battery technologies to provide a unique reference in the field.

Editors

Hailiang Wang, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Boniface P.T. Fokwa, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

Contributors ix

Series Preface xiii

Volume Preface xv

Part 1: Chemistry of Li-Ion Battery Materials 1

Silicon-Based Anodes for Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries 3
Junhua Song, Xiaolin Li and Ji-Guang Zhang

Surface Chemistry of Alkali-Ion Battery Cathode Materials 15
Muhammad M. Rahman and Feng Lin

Part 2: Lithium Metal Battery Materials 39

Li–CO₂ Batteries 41
Zhaojun Xie and Zhen Zhou

S Electrode Materials 59
Feng Li

Lithium Metal Anode 75
Siyuan Li, Jixiang Yang and Yingying Lu

Lithium Oxygen Battery 97
Raymond A. Wong, Hye Ryung Byon, Morgan L. Thomas, Kaoru Dokko and Masayoshi Watanabe

Structural Engineering of Cathode Materials for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries 121
Ligui Li, Jingping Yu, Nan Wang, Jun Zhao, Bin Fan, Shuaibo Zeng and Shaowei Chen

Part 3: Materials and Chemistry of Non-Lithium Batteries 151

How to Maximize the Potential of Zn–Air Battery: Toward Acceptable Rechargeable Technology with or without Electricity 153
Joohyuk Park, Jang-Soo Lee and Jaephil Cho

Solid State and Materials Chemistry for Sodium-Ion Batteries 161
Divya Sehrawat, Neeraj Sharma and Jennifer H. Stansby

Multivalent Metallic Anodes for Rechargeable Batteries 197
Jennifer L. Schaefer and Laura C. Merrill

Redox-Active Inorganic Materials for Redox Flow Batteries 211
Bo Hu, Jian Luo, Camden DeBruler, Maowei Hu, Wenda Wu and T. Leo Liu

Electrode and Electrolyte Interaction in Aqueous Electrochemical Energy Storage 237
Xiaowei Teng

Na-Ion Batteries: Positive Electrode Materials 253
Elizabeth H. Driscoll, Laura L. Driscoll and Peter R. Slater

Part 4: Electrolyte Chemistry for Rechargeable Batteries 267

Solid-State Electrolyte 269
Wei Luo, Chuang Yu and Liangbing Hu

Chemistry of Soft Matter Battery Electrolytes 279
Jelena Popovic

Modeling Solid State Batteries 291
Ting Hei Wan, Ziheng Lu and Francesco Ciucci

Part 5: Advanced Characterizations of Inorganic Battery Materials 309

TEM Studies on Electrode Materials for Secondary Ion Batteries 311
Sooyeon Hwang and Dong Su

Synchrotron-Based Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy for Battery Material Studies 339
Wanli Yang

Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Lithium-Based Batteries 359
Feifei Shi and Philip N. Ross

Application of In Situ Electrochemical-Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy for the Study of Rechargeable Batteries 377
Wentao Yao and Reza Shahbazian-Yassar

Index 387