Nanostructured Lithium-ion Battery Materials

Professor Sabu Thomas is the Director of Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is also currently the Chairman of the Trivandrum Engineering Science and Technology Research Park (TrESPARK), Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He was the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Prof. Thomas is a highly committed teacher and a remarkably active researcher well-known nationally and internationally for his outstanding contributions in polymer science and nanotechnology. He has published over 1400 research articles in international refereed journals. and has also edited and written 210 books. His H-index is 140 and total citations are more than 94,000. He has supervised 125 PhD theses. He has received many international and national awards and recognitions. Under the leadership of Prof. Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University has been transformed into a top University in India. Prof. Oumarou Savadogo is Full Professor and UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Engineering and Applied Solar Technologies, at Polytechnique Montréal, Quebec, Canada. With a background in materials science, he was also previously a process engineer at Rhône-Siltec (production of silicon for photovoltaic solar cells) and a postdoctoral fellow at CNRS-Bellevue, both in France. At Polytechnique Montréal, he is Founding Director of the Laboratory of New Materials for Energy and Electrochemistry, and is responsible for the graduate programs on Renewable Energy in Energy Engineering and Energy and Sustainable Development in Chemical Engineering. Prof. Savadogo’s research interests include the development of new materials for solar energy, fuel cells, batteries, electrochemical capacitors, electrochemistry, metallurgical processes, corrosion, and microbial cells. He is author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications in refereed scientific journals, Founding Editor of the Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems, and a member of the advisory/editorial boards of the Journal of Enzyme Engineering, the Journal of Materials, Membranes, and Discover Energy. He is also member of the Broad of Directors and Advisory Board of the International Hydrogen Energy Association. Amadou Belal Gueye is a Research Scholar at the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics-chemistry and his master’s degree in physical chemistry applied to energy and analysis, from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal. He works in the field of lithium/sulfur batteries. Dr. Hanna J. Maria is a Senior Researcher at the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. She previously held postdoctoral research positions at the Centre for Advanced Materials, Qatar University, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Japan, the Centre RAPSODEE, IMT Mines, Albi, France, and the Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Dr. Maria has published 20 articles and 10 book chapters, and co-edited 4 books. Her research has focused on natural rubber composites and their blends, thermoplastic composites, lignin, nanocellulose, bio-nanocomposites, nanocellulose, rubber-based composites and nanocomposites, and hybrid nanocomposites.

Part I: Introduction to Lithium-ion Battery Systems
1. Introduction and History of Lithium-ion Batteries
2. Electrochemistry and Basic Reaction Mechanism of Lithium-ion Batteries
3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Lithium-ion Batteries
4. Characterization Methods for Lithium-ion Batteries

Part II: Nanostructured Cathode Materials for Li-ion Batteries
5. Hollow Carbon Spheres and Their Hybrid Nanomaterials as Cathode Materials
6. Nanostructured Conductive Polymers as Active Electrode Composites
7. Nanostructured Metal-Oxides as Cathode Materials

Part III: Nanostructured Electrolyte Materials for Li-ion Batteries
8. Aqueous Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries
9. Non-aqueous Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries
10. Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries
11. Hybrid Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries

Part IV: Nanostructured Separator Materials for Li-ion Batteries
12. Functionalized Polyolefin Separators
13. Nanostructures Separators Based on Non-Polyolefin Polymers

Part V: Nanostructured Anode Materials for Li-ion Batteries
14. CNT-Metal Oxide Composites as Cathode Materials
15. Carbonaceous Nanostructured Materials as Anodes
16. Titanium based Oxides as Anodes
17. Metal Alloys Materials as Anodes
18. Nanostructured Transition Metal Oxides as Anodes
19. MXene-based Nanomaterials as Anode Materials
20. Lignocellulosic Biomass Generated Activated Carbon Synthesis and its Application as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries.

Part VI: Future Outlook and Challenges
21. Lithium Ion Batteries: From Lab to Industry and Safety
22. Life-Cycle Analysis of Lithium-Ion Batteries
23. Lithium-Ion Batteries: Future Market Challenges and Recycling