Advanced Two-dimensional Material-based Heterostructures in Sustainable Energy Storage Devices

Advanced Two-Dimensional Material-Based Heterostructures in Sustainable Energy Storage Devices provides a detailed overview of advances and challenges in the development of 2D materials for use in energy storage devices. It offers deep insight into the synthesis, characterization, and application of different 2D materials and their heterostructures in a variety of energy storage devices, focusing on new phenomena and enhanced electrochemistry.

This book:

• Introduces 2D materials, synthesis methods, and characterization techniques
• Discusses application in a wide range of batteries and supercapacitors
• Offers perspectives on future investigations necessary to overcome existing challenges

This comprehensive reference is written to guide researchers and engineers working to advance the technology of energy-efficient energy storage devices.

Srikanth Ponnada MRSC is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Herring’s Group at the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines, U.S.A. Previously he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. He received his Dual Degree Master’s in Applied Chemistry from Andhra University, India and his PhD is in the area of ‘‘Functional Materials and their Electrochemical Applications in Batteries and Sensors.’’ As a part of his PhD, he worked at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. His current research includes functional materials synthesis, polymer electrolyte membranes, fuel cell assembly and engineering, energy storage, conversion devices, electrochemical sensors, electrocatalysis, and electrochemical engineering for net zero emissions and carbon neutrality. He previously worked at the CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute-India as a Project Assistant Level-III in lead-free perovskites-based photovoltaics and electrocatalysis and at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad as project research fellow in gold nanoparticle-assisted heterogeneous catalysis in alcohol and hydrocarbon oxidation reactions.

Susmita Naskar FHEA is Assistant Professor in the faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences at University of Southampton, U.K. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen. Dr. Naskar was a visiting fellow during this period at University of Oxford. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Whitting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Susmita is the founding director of the Engineered Materials and Structures Laboratory at University of Southampton. Her primary area of interest is the multiscale and multiphysics analysis of physical systems, with mechanics as its epicenter. Dr. Naskar’s research findings and developments are regularly published in reputed journals and conferences.