Comprehensive reference work for researchers and engineers working with advanced and emerging nanostructured battery and supercapacitor materials

Lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors play a vital role in the paradigm shift towards sustainable energy technology. This book reviews how and why different nanostructured materials improve the performance and stability of batteries and capacitors. Sample materials covered throughout the work include:

• Graphene, carbon nanotubes, and carbon nanofibers
• MXenes, hexagonal boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides
• Transition metal oxides, metal-organic frameworks, and lithium titanates
• Gel polymer electrolytes, hydrogels, and conducting polymer nanocomposites

For materials scientists, electrochemists, and solid state chemists, this book is an essential reference to understand the lithium-ion battery and supercapacitor applications of nanostructured materials that are most widely used for developing low-cost, rapid, and highly efficient energy storage systems.

Kalim Deshmukh, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic. He has over 20 years of research experience working with wide variety of nanomaterials, and polymeric materials, especially polymer blends, nanocomposites and nanohybrids for various applications. His research interest is mainly focused on the synthesis, characterization and property investigations of polymer nanocomposites reinforced with different nanofillers including various metal oxide nanoparticles and carbon based nanomaterials for energy storage, energy harvesting, gas sensing, EMI shielding and high-k dielectric applications. He has over 185 publications with renowned international publications such as the The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), The American Chemical Society (ACS), Elsevier, Wiley, Springer and Taylor & Francis etc. Besides, he has edited/co-edited over 25 books for Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-VCH, Wiley Scrivener, ACS and RSC publications.

Mayank Pandey, Ph.D., is working as Assistant Professor in Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore, India. He is a materials physicist with a strong background in electronics. His main research interest is synthesizing graphene quantum dots (GQDs)-based polymeric composites, nanocomposites, polymer blends and composite electrolytes, organic semiconductor/organic solar cells and their impedance spectroscopy analysis. He has published over 50 research articles in peer-reviewed high-impact journals, 6 Books and 10 book chapters.