Nanostructured Materials for Supercapacitors

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-99301-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 644 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1139 g

Reihe: Advances in Material Research and Technology

This book covers nanostructure materials for application as supercapacitors. It highlights the properties that make them ideal for energy storage applications. It reports approaches on their electronic, electrical, thermal properties to increase their specific surfaces in order to improve their electrical storage capacities. This book consolidates information on synthesis, characterization and application for supercapacitors with detailed characterization, mechanistic approaches and theoretical consideration. The progress in experimental and theoretical studies on various properties of nanomaterials and its polymer and other composites are described in detail.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, Sabu

Gueye, Amadou Belal

Gupta, Ram K.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Biomaterialien, Nanomaterialien, Kohlenstoff

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Fundamentals of Supercapacitors

Chapter 1: Supercapacitors: An Introduction

Chapter 2: Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors

Chapter 3: Pseudocapacitors

Chapter 4: Hybrid Capacitors

Chapter 5: Characterization Methods for Supercapacitors

Chapter 6: Life Cycle Analysis of Supercapacitors

Part 2: Nanostructured Materials for Supercapacitors

Chapter 7: Activated Carbon

Chapter 8: Carbon Nanotubes

Chapter 9: Graphene 

Chapter 10: Transition Metal Oxides

Chapter 11: Chalcogenides and Phosphides

Chapter 12: Conducting Polymers

Part 3: Templated Nanostructured Carbon Materials for Supercapacitors

Chapter 13: Mesoporous Carbon

Chapter 14: Microporous Carbon

Chapter 15: Macroporous Carbon

Chapter 16: Carbon Nanofiber  

Chapter 17: Carbon Aerogels

Part 4: Nanostructured Hybrid Materials for Supercapacitors

Chapter 18: Carbon-based Nano Composites

Chapter 19: Metal Oxides based Nano Composites

Chapter 20: Chalcogenides based Nano Composites

Chapter 21: Conducting Polymers based Nano Composites

Chapter 22: Other Nanocomposites

Part 5: Electrolytes for Supercapacitors

Chapter 23: Aqueous Electrolytes

Chapter 24: Non-aqueous Electrolytes

Chapter 25: Solid-State or Quasi-Solid-State Electrolytes

Chapter 26: Redox-Active Electrolytes 

Part 6: Supercapacitors: Future Outlooks and Challenges

Chapter 27: Flexibles Supercapacitors

Chapter 28: Nanosupercapacitors

Chapter 29: Supercapacitors: Lab to Industry

Chapter 30: Future Direction and Challenges in Supercapacitors

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Sabu Thomas is currently serving as Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. He is also a full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences, since 1998. He was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University 2017-2018, Director of School of Chemical Science during 2010-2013, and Hon. Director of International and Inter-University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2009-2015 and 2016-17. In 2015, Prof. Thomas received his first Doctorate Honoris Causa from University of Southern Brittany in Lorient, France. In 2016, he received his second Doctorate Honoris Causa from University of Lorraine, France. He was awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, FRSC in 2012. He received the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India and the MRSI Medal of the Material Research Society of India in 2013. He was the recipient of Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Award 2017. He also received TRiLA Academician of the year 2018 award.

Mr. Amadou Belal Gueye is a research scholar at Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He joined Mahatma Gandhi University as a Ph.D. scholar in 2019. He is working on “Design and Development of  Advanced Cathode Materials for  High Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. He has done his Master in Physical Chemistry Applied to Energy and Analysis From Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal. His current research interest is developing high-performance energy storage devices.

Dr. Ram K. Gupta is an associate professor at Pittsburg State University. Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on 2D materials, nanomagnetism, nanomaterials, green energy production and storage using conducting polymers and composites, electrocatalysts for fuel cells, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic hetero-junctions for sensors, bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, bio-degradable metallic implants. He is serving as an associate editor, guest editor, and editorial board member for various journals.