Metal-Air Batteries: Principles, Progress, and Perspectives

By: Ram K. Gupta

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Synopsis: 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.