Energy Storage Materials Characterization

Yongbing Tang is a professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) and Director of Functional Thin Films Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, director of the Engineering Center of Guangdong Province and the Engineering Laboratory of Shenzhen, Leading Talents of Guangdong Special Support Program, and High-level Professional Talents of Shenzhen. His research mainly focuses on the technology development and application of functional thin films and new energy storage materials/devices (multivalent-ion battery, dual-ion battery, etc.). To date, Prof. Yongbing Tang has authored over 160 scientific papers (including Nat. Chem., Nat. Commun., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Nano Lett., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater.) and 68 papers with an impact factor of over 10. He has applied 406 patents, including 268 invention patents (12 US/EU/Japan/South Korea patents included), 48 PCT patents, and 128 granted patents, in which 23 patents have been transferred for industrialization.

Chapter I. Introduction

Part I X-ray techniques
Chapter 2. X-ray Diffraction
Chapter 3. X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Chapter 4. Photoemission spectroscopy for energy storage materials
Chapter 5. Application of X-ray pair distribution function (PDF) to investigate battery systems
Chapter 6. X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy
Chapter 7. X-ray Tomography Microscopy
Chapter 8. Transmission X-ray Microscopy
Chapter 9. Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging

Part II. Neutron techniques
Chapter 10. A General Introduction of Neutron Techniques
Chapter 11. Neutron Diffraction for Energy Storage Materials
Chapter 12. Neutron Scattering
Chapter 13. Neutron Depth Profile
Chapter 14. Neutron Imaging

Part III. Optical techniques
Chapter 15. UV-Vis Spectroscopy for Energy Storage and Related Materials
Chapter 16. Raman Spectroscopy
Chapter 17. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Chapter 18. Optical Microscopy

Part IV. Microwave techniques
Chapter 19. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Chapter 20. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

Part V. Electron techniques

Chapter 21. Morphology dependent energy storage performance of supercapacitors and batteries: Scanning Electron Microscopy as an essential tool for material characterization
Chapter 22. Transmission Electron Microscopy
Chapter 23. Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Chapter 24. Structural/chemical characterization of alkali-ion battery materials using electron energy-loss spectroscopy coupled with transmission electron microscopy
Chapter 25. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Part VI. Advanced techniques
Chapter 26. Combined in-situ techniques
Chapter 27. Non-destructive techniques