Nanostructured Lithium-ion Battery Materials

Dr. Sabu Thomas (Ph.D.) is the Director of the School of Energy Materials, School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He received his Ph. D. in 1987 in Polymer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, and a member of the American Chemical Society. He has been ranked no.1 in India about the number of publications (most productive scientists). Prof. Thomas’s research group specialized areas of polymers which includes Polymer blends, Fiber filled polymer composites, Particulate-filled polymer composites and their morphological characterization, Ageing and degradation, Pervaporation phenomena, sorption and diffusion, Interpenetrating polymer systems, Recyclability and reuse of waste plastics and rubbers, Elastomer cross-linking, Dual porous nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue engineering, etc. Prof. Thomas’s research group has extensive exchange programs with different industries, research, and academic institutions all over the world and is performing world-class collaborative research in various fields. Professors Centre is equipped with various sophisticated instruments and has established state-of-the-art experimental facilities which cater to the needs of researchers within the country and abroad. His H Index- 133, Google Citations- 86424, Number of Publications- 1300, and Books-160.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.

• Part I: Introduction to Lithium-ion Battery Systems1. Introduction and History of Lithium-ion Batteries2. Electrochemistry and Basic Reaction Mechanism of Lithium-ion Batteries3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Lithium-ion Batteries4. Characterization Methods for Lithium-ion BatteriesPart II: Nanostructured Cathode Materials for Li-ion Batteries5. Hollow Carbon Spheres and Their Hybrid Nanomaterials as Cathode Materials6. Nanostructured Conductive Polymers as Active Electrode Composites7. Nanostructured Metal-Oxides as Cathode MaterialsPart III: Nanostructured Electrolyte Materials for Li-ion Batteries8. Aqueous Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries9. Non-aqueous Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries10. Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries11. Hybrid Electrolyte for Li-ion BatteriesPart IV: Nanostructured Separator Materials for Li-ion Batteries12. Functionalized Polyolefin Separators13. Nanostructures Separators Based on Non-Polyolefin PolymersPart V: Nanostructured Anode Materials for Li-ion Batteries14. CNT-Metal Oxide Composites as Cathode Materials15. Carbonaceous Nanostructured Materials as Anodes16. Titanium based Oxides as Anodes17. Metal Alloys Materials as Anodes18. Nanostructured Transition Metal Oxides as Anodes19. MXene-based Nanomaterials as Anode Materials20. Lignocellulosic Biomass Generated Activated Carbon Synthesis and its Application as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries.Part VI: Future Outlook and Challenges21. Lithium Ion Batteries: From Lab to Industry and Safety22. Life-Cycle Analysis of Lithium-Ion Batteries23. Lithium-Ion Batteries: Future Market Challenges and Recycling