Bestseller
Handbook of Solid State Batteries

2^nd Edition
edited by Nancy J Dudney (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), William C West (Nagoya University, Japan) & Jagjit Nanda (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

The book is quite complete, divided into three sections with a total of 22 chapters, most of them ending with outlook and perspectives, and is generally well written. The book will be a great resource for students and researchers discovering the field. I highly recommend the Handbook of Solid State Batteries to anyone interested in this emerging area of research.

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Functional Materials for Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries

edited by Jiangfeng Ni (Soochow University, China) & Li Lu (National University of Singapore)

This book starts with principles and fundamentals of lithium rechargeable batteries, followed by their designs and assembly. The book then focuses on the recent progress in the development of advanced functional materials, as both cathode and anode, for next-generation rechargeable batteries such as lithium-sulfur, sodium-ion, and zinc-ion batteries. One of the special features of this book is that both inorganic electrode materials and organic materials are included to meet the requirement of high energy density and high safety of future rechargeable batteries. In addition to traditional non-aqueous rechargeable batteries, detailed information and discussion on aqueous batteries and solid-state batteries are also provided.

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Handbook of Porous Materials

Synthesis, Properties, Modeling and Key Applications
(In 4 Volumes)
Editor-in-chief: Vitaly Gitis (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) & Gadi Rothenberg (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Coordinating the efforts of 37 expert authors in 14 chapters, they construct the story of porous carbons, ceramics, zeolites and polymers from varied viewpoints: surface and colloidal science, materials science, chemical engineering, and energy engineering. The first comprehensive reference work on porous materials in the last 20 years, especially relevant in the fields of characterisation, simulations, and energy applications, where huge progress has been made in the past two decades.

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Modern Battery Engineering

A Comprehensive Introduction
edited by Kai Peter Birke (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

This is a book primarily for engineers and materials scientists either researching or developing Li-ion energy storage batteries who want to understand some of the critical aspects of Li-ion battery technology and gain knowledge about the latest engineering designs and latest materials being used in Li-ion batteries. Good technical depth, many tables of data, and many illustrations combined with references at the end of each chapter for further in-depth study make this book worth reading to gain a quick understanding of the current state-of-the art in Li-ion battery technology and the fundamental issues and challenges facing Li-ion battery designers.

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Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage

edited by Dunwei Wang (Boston College, USA) & Guozhong Cao (University of Washington, USA)

This book looks at the most recent research on the topic, with particular focus on artificial photosynthesis and lithium-ion batteries as the most promising technologies to date. Research on the broad subject of energy conversion and storage calls for expertise from a wide range of backgrounds, from the most fundamental perspectives of the key catalytic processes at the molecular level to device scale engineering and optimization. Although the nature of the processes dictates that electrochemistry is a primary characterization tool, due attention is given to advanced techniques such as synchrotron studies in operando These studies look at the gap between the performance of current technology and what is needed for the future, for example how to improve on the lithium-ion battery and to go beyond its capabilities.

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