Metal-Air Batteries: Principles, Progress, and Perspectives

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Metal-Air Batteries: Principles, Progress, and Perspectives covers the entire spectrum of metal-air batteries, their working principles, recent advancement, and future perspectives. Leading international researchers address materials design, electrochemistry, and architectural aspects. The fundamentals of metal-air materials for cathode and anode, their synthetic approaches, chemistries to modify their properties to provide high energy and power densities, along with long life and stable electrochemical characteristics are detailed. Key Features: Covers materials, chemistry, and technologies for metal-air batteries. Reviews state-of-the-art progress and challenges in metal-air batteries Provides fundamentals of the electrochemical behavior of various metal-air batteries. Offers insight into tuning the properties of materials to make them suitable for metal-air batteries. Provides new direction and a better understanding to scientists, researchers, and students working in diverse fields. This is a unique offering and a valuable resource for a wide range of readers including those in academia and industries worldwide. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface Biography List of Contributors Chapter 1 Metal-Air Batteries: An Introduction Chapter 2 Materials and Electrochemistry of Metal-Air Battery Chapter 3 Electrochemical Fundamentals and Issues of Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 4 Mathematical Modeling for Enhanced Electrochemical Properties Chapter 5 Materials and Technologies of Mg-Air Primary Batteries Chapter 6 Materials and Technologies of Al-Air Batteries Chapter 7 Materials and Technologies of Other Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 8 Novel Architectural Designs for Improved Performance Chapter 9 Phase-Engineered Materials as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 10 Noble Metal-Based Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 11 1D Materials as Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 12 2D Materials as Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 13 3D Materials as Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 14 Carbon-Based Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 15 Metal Oxide-Based Electrocatalysts for Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 16 Enhanced Performance of Lithium-Air Batteries by Improved Cathode Materials Chapter 17 Aqueous Electrolytes Chapter 18 Non-Aqueous Electrolytes in Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 19 Ionic Electrolytes Chapter 20 Hybrid-Electrolyte Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 21 Polymer Electrolytes Chapter 22 Hydrogel Electrolytes Chapter 23 Wearable Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 24 Flexible Metal-Air Batteries Chapter 25 Challenges in Metal-Air Batteries Index