Prospects for Li-ion Batteries and Emerging Energy Electrochemical Systems

The Li-ion battery market is growing fast due to its ever increasing number of applications, from electric vehicles to portable devices. These devices are in demand due to safety reasons, energy efficiency, high power density and long life duration, which drive the need for more efficient electrochemical energy storage systems. The aim of this book is to provide the challenges and perspectives for Li-ion batteries (chapters 1 and 2), at the negative electrode as well as at the positive electrode, and for technologies beyond the Li-ion with the emerging Na-ion batteries and multivalent (Mg, Al, Ca, etc) systems (chapters 4 and 5). The aim is also to alert on the necessity to develop the recycling methods of the millions of produced batteries which are going to further flood our societies (chapter 3), and also to continuously increase the safety of the energy storage systems. For the latter challenge, it is interesting to seriously consider polymer electrolytes and batteries as an alternative (chapter 6).

This book will take readers inside recent breakthroughs made in the electrochemical energy systems. It is a collaborative work of experts from the most known teams in the batteries field in Europe and beyond, from academics as well as from manufacturers.

Contents:

• Negative Electrodes for Li-Ion Batteries: Beyond Carbon (Phoebe K Allan, Nicolas Louvain and Laure Monconduit)
• Li-Rich Layered Oxides: Still a Challenge, but a Very Promising Positive Electrode Material for Li-Ion Batteries (Ségolène Pajot, Loïc Simonin and Laurence Croguennec)
• Recycling of Li-Ion Batteries and New Generation Batteries (Jean Scoyer)
• Na-Ion Batteries — State of the Art and Prospects (Patrik Johansson, Patrick Rozier and M Rosa Palacín)
• Battery Systems Based on Multivalent Metals and Metal Ions (Doron Aurbach, Romain Berthelot, Alexandre Ponrouch, Michael Salama and Ivgeni Shterenberg)
• Lithium Polymer Electrolytes and Batteries (Gebrekidan Gebresilassie Eshetu, Michel Armand and Stefano Passerini)

Readership: Researchers and professionals in electrochemistry, materials chemistry/nanochemistry, inorganic chemistry, solid state chemistry and physical chemistry.
Key Features:

• Prominent authors or contributors who for some of them belong to the European Research Institute, Alistore ERI (headed by Dr M R Palacin (ICMAB, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain) and by Dr P Simon (CIRIMAT, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)), and more generally to prestigious European Institutes and Universities developing high level research in the field of the electrochemical energy storage
• Selected topics which highlight the main trends in the battery field, focusing especially on the emerging research axes
• Original approach with fundamental aspects (understanding of the mechanisms and failure mechanisms in batteries through the use of advanced characterization tools, often operandi during the cycling of the battery), as well as industrial concerns such as the recycling