This volume covers recent advanced battery systems such as metal-ion, hybrid, and metal-air batteries. It includes an introduction to fluoride, potassium, zinc, chloride, aluminium, and iron-ion batteries; special or hybrid batteries are included, with calcium, nuclear, thermal, and lithium-magnesium hybrid batteries also explained. It summarizes the recent progress and chemistry behind the popular metal-air batteries, including a systematic overview of the components, design, and integration of these new battery technologies.

Features:

• Covers recent battery technologies in detail, from the chemistry to advances in post-lithium-ion batteries
• Various post-lithium-ion batteries are discussed in detail
• Includes a section on ion batteries, exploring new types of metal-ion batteries
• Focuses in each chapter on a particular battery type, including different metal-ion batteries such as zinc, potassium, aluminium, and their air version batteries
• Provides authoritative coverage of scientific content via global contributing experts

This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and professionals in materials science, chemical and electrical engineering, and electrochemistry.

Prasanth Raghavan is a Professor, at Materials Science and NanoEngineering Lab (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Visiting Professor at Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Center, SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College), Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK and at Department of Materials Engineering and Convergence Technology, Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea.

Akhila Das is a graduate student pursuing Ph.D. at Materials Science and NanoEngineering Lab (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (PSRT), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India.

Jabeen Fatima M. J has recently joined Carborundum Universal Limited as Manager of Technology. She was previously engaged as a research scientist at Materials Science and NanoEngineering Lab (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (PSRT), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India. Before joining MSNE Lab, she was working as a tentative Assistant Professor at Department of NanoScience and Technology, University of Calicut, India.