Metal-Air Batteries: Principles, Progress, And Perspectives

Metal-Air Batteries: Principles, Progress, and Perspectives covers the entire spectrum of metal-air batteries, their working principles, recent advancement, and future perspectives. Leading international researchers address materials design, electrochemistry, and architectural aspects. The fundamentals of metal-air materials for cathode and anode, their synthetic approaches, chemistries to modify their properties to provide high energy and power densities, along with long life and stable electrochemical characteristics are detailed.

Key Features:

• Covers materials, chemistry, and technologies for metal-air batteries
• Reviews state-of-the-art progress and challenges in metal-air batteries
• Provides fundamentals of the electrochemical behavior of various metal-air batteries
• Offers insight into tuning the properties of materials to make them suitable for metal-air batteries
• Provides new direction and a better understanding to scientists, researchers, and students working in diverse fields

This is a unique offering and a valuable resource for a wide range of readers including those in academia and industries worldwide.

Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor at Pittsburg State University. Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold, and antibacterial applications, bio-degradable metallic implants, green energy production, and storage using conducting polymers and composites, electrocatalysts for fuel cells, nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic hetero-junctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, Dr. Gupta has published over 225 peer-reviewed articles, made over 300 national/international/ regional presentations, chaired many sessions at national/international meetings, as well as writing and editing many books/chapters for the American Chemical Society, CRC, and Elsevier publishers. He has received over two million dollars for research and educational activities from external agencies and is serving as associate editor, guest editor, and editorial board member for various journals.