Nanowire Energy Storage Devices: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications

Nanowire Energy Storage Devices is a comprehensive resource that provides in-depth knowledge about nanowire-based energy storage technologies, including their synthesis, principles, characterization, and applications in ion batteries, high energy batteries, supercapacitors, micro-nano energy storage devices, and flexible energy storage devices. It also addresses global energy challenges by explaining how nanowires enable the design and fabrication of sustainable energy generation devices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 03 January 2024
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH

Nanowire Energy Storage Devices is a comprehensive resource that delves into the realm of nanowire-based energy storage technologies, offering in-depth knowledge on this emerging field. The book focuses on the diverse applications of nanowires in energy storage, encompassing the synthesis and principles of nanowire electrode materials, their characterization, and performance control. It explores various types of nanowire-based energy storage devices, including ion batteries, high energy batteries, supercapacitors, micro-nano energy storage devices, and flexible energy storage devices.

Moreover, Nanowire Energy Storage Devices addresses global energy challenges by highlighting how nanowires enable the design and fabrication of sustainable energy generation devices. Contributions from the pioneers of nanowire technology have been incorporated into the book, covering topics such as the physical and chemical properties, thermodynamics, and kinetics of nanowires, as well as the basic performance parameters of nanowire-based electrochemical energy storage devices.

The book also delves into conventional, porous, hierarchical, heterogeneous, and hollow nanomaterials, along with in-situ electron microscopic and spectroscopy characterization techniques. It explores the electrochemistry of lithium-ion batteries, discussing the unique advantages of nanowires for lithium-ion batteries and their role as anodes in these batteries. Additionally, the book discusses the use of nanowires for other energy storage devices, such as metal-air, polyvalent ion, alkaline, and sodium/lithium-sulfur batteries.

By elucidating the design, synthesis, and energy storage applications of nanowires, Nanowire Energy Storage Devices serves as an essential resource for materials scientists, electrochemists, electrical engineers, and solid state physicists. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the potential of nanowires in advancing energy storage technologies and addressing the pressing energy needs of our society.

Weight: 765g
Dimension: 244 x 170 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783527349173