Nanostructured Lithium-ion Battery Materials : Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

Nanostructured Lithium-ion Battery Materials: Synthesis and Applications provides a detailed overview of nanostructured materials for application in Li-ion batteries, supporting improvements in materials selection and battery performance. The book begins by presenting the fundamentals of Lithium-ion batteries, including electrochemistry and reaction mechanism, advantages and disadvantages of Li-ion batteries, and characterization methods. Subsequent sections provide in-depth coverage of a range of nanostructured materials as applied to cathodes, electrolytes, separators, and anodes. Finally, other key aspects are discussed, including industrial scale-up, safety, life cycle analysis, recycling, and future research trends.

This is a valuable resource for researchers, faculty, and advanced students across nanotechnology, materials science, battery technology, energy storage, chemistry, applied physics, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering. In an industrial setting, this book will be of interest to scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals working with advanced materials for Li-ion batteries and other energy storage applications.

• Introduces fundamental of Lithium-ion batteries, electrochemistry, and characterization methods
• Offers in-depth information on nanostructured cathode, electrolyte, separator, and anode materials
• Addresses lab to industry challenges, safety, lifecycle analysis, recycling, and future opportunities

Sabu Thomas is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University and a Senior Professor of Christ University, Bangalore, India, as well as a visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India.

Prof. Oumarou Savadogo is Full Professor and UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Engineering and Applied Solar Technologies, at Polytechnique Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
With a background in materials science, he was also previously a process engineer at Rhône-Siltec (production of silicon for photovoltaic solar cells) and a postdoctoral fellow at CNRS-Bellevue, both in France. At Polytechnique Montréal, he is Founding Director of the Laboratory of New Materials for Energy and Electrochemistry, and is responsible for the graduate programs on Renewable Energy in Energy Engineering and Energy and Sustainable Development in Chemical Engineering. Prof. Savadogo’s research interests include the development of new materials for solar energy, fuel cells, batteries, electrochemical capacitors, electrochemistry, metallurgical processes, corrosion, and microbial cells. He is author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications in refereed scientific journals, Founding Editor of the Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems, and a member of the advisory/editorial boards of the Journal of Enzyme Engineering, the Journal of Materials, Membranes, and Discover Energy. He is also member of the Broad of Directors and Advisory Board of the International Hydrogen Energy Association.

Amadou Belal Gueye is a Research Scholar at the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics-chemistry and his master’s degree in physical chemistry applied to energy and analysis, from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal. He works in the field of lithium/sulfur batteries.

Hanna J. Maria is a Senior Researcher at the School of Energy Materials and the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Her research focusses on natural rubber composites and their blends, thermoplastic composites, lignin, nanocellulose, bionanocomposites, nanocellulose, rubber-based composites and nanocomposites.