Rechargeable Batteries

Rajender Boddula, PdD, is currently working for the Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship Initiative (CAS-PIFI) at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST, Beijing). He has numerous honors, book chapters, and academic papers to his credit and is an editorial board member and a referee for several reputed international peer-reviewed journals. Inamuddin, PhD, is an assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and is also an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He has published about 150 research articles in various international scientific journals, 18 book chapters, and 60 edited books with multiple well-known publishers. Ramyakrishna Pothu is currently pursuing her PhD at Hunan University, China. She has published several scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals and coauthored more than twenty book chapters by various publishers. She has co-edited books with with several publishers, including Wiley. Abdullah M. Asiri is the Head of the Chemistry Department at King Abdulaziz University and the founder and Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the King Abdulaziz University Journal of Science. He has received numerous awards, and serves on the editorial boards of multiple scientific journals and is the Vice President of the Saudi Chemical Society (Western Province Branch). He holds multiple patents, has authored ten books, more than one thousand publications in international journals, and multiple book chapters.

Preface xvii 1 Progress in Separators for Rechargeable Batteries 1
Cheng-song Yang, Dian-hui Han and Meng Zhang

2 Pb Acid Batteries 17
Hasan Jafari and Mohammad Reza Rahimpour

3 Flexible Batteries 41
Muhammad Inam Khan,Muhammad Mudassir Hassan, Abdur Rahim and Nawshad Muhammad

4 Polymer Electrolytes in Rechargeable Batteries 61
Yogesh Kumar, Meenal Gupta, Ashwani Kumar and N. B. Singh

5 Advancement in Electrolytes for Rechargeable Batteries 87
Prasun Banerjee, Adolfo Franco Jr, R. Z. Xiao, K. Chandra Babu Naidu, R. M. Rao, Ramyakrishna Pothu and Rajender Boddula

6 Fabrication Assembly Techniques for K-Ion Batteries 99
Praachi Kapoor, Parul Khurana, Christinee Jeyseelen, Dinesh Kumar and Sheenam Thatai

7 Recent Advances in Ni-Fe Batteries as Electrical Energy Storage Devices 115
K. Chandra Babu Naidu, N. Suresh Kumar, H. Manjunatha, Prasun Benerjee, D. Baba Basha, S. Naresh Kumar, Ramyakrishna Pothu and Rajender Boddula

8 Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) Batteries 131
Sandeep Arya and Sonali Verma

9 Ni-Cd Batteries 177
Christine Jeyaseelan, Antil Jain, Parul Khurana, Dinesh Kumar and Sheenam Thatai

10 Ca-Ion Batteries 195
Arti Jain and Ritu Payal

11 Analytical Investigations in Rechargeable Batteries 217
Bhawana Jain, Sunita Singh, Anupama Asthana, Ajaya Kumar Singh and Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan

12 Remediation of Spent Rechargeable Batteries 237
Amal I. Hassan and Hosam M. Saleh

13 Classification, Modeling, and Requirements for Separators in Rechargeable Batteries 265
Zahra Pezeshki

14 Research and Development and Commercialization in Rechargeable Batteries 315
Nelson Pynadathu Rumjit, Paul Thomas, Jishnu Naskar, George Thomas, P.J. George, Chin Wei Lai, Mohd Rafie Bin Johan and Elizabeth George

15 Alkaline Batteries 357
Sapna Raghav, Jyoti Raghav, Praveen Kumar Yadav and Dinesh Kumar

16 Advances in “Green” Ion-Batteries Using Aqueous Electrolytes 379
Chenar A. Tahir, Charu Agarwal and Levente Csóka

17 K-Ion Batteries 403
Mohd Imran Ahamed and Naushad Anwar

18 Li-S Batteries 425
Nitin Kumar Sharma and Dinesh Kumar

19 Aqueous Na-Air Batteries 441
Mehdi Dehghan Manshadi and Mohammad Reza Rahimpour

Index 465