Books by Keyword: Cathode Materials

Description: This special edition presents recent research results and engineering solutions in two interconnected fields: membrane technology, heat and mass transfer in engineering systems, highlighting innovative approaches and technologies, and in the area of materials for optoelectronics and energy storage, which also drive scientific and industrial progress.

Description: The presented special issue is dedicated to the recent problems in the area of modern functional and specialised materials: synthesis technologies, properties analysis and features of their applications, and will be helpful to many specialists from many branches of modern production.

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Advances in Materials (ICAM 2014), December 13-14, 2014, Shanghai, China.
The 167 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies;
Chapter 2: Thin Films;
Chapter 3: Metal-Based Materials, Alloys and Metallurgical Technology;
Chapter 4: Crystallography, Chemical and Cathode Materials;
Chapter 5: Polymers and Composite Materials;
Chapter 6: Biomaterials and Biotechnologies;
Chapter 7: Materials and Technologies in Environmental Engineering;
Chapter 8: Building Materials and Technologies;
Chapter 9: Research in Area of Applied Materials;
Chapter 10: Processing Technologies and Computational Methods in Area of Materials Science

Description: Since the first development of lithium-ion batteries in the early 1990’s, there have been tremendous advances in the science and technology of these electrochemical energy sources. At present, lithium batteries dominate the field of advanced power sources and have almost entirely replaced their bulkier and less energetic counterparts such as nickel-cadmium and nickel-metalhydride batteries; especially in portable electronic devices. But lithium batteries are still the object of continuing intense research aimed at making further improvements in performance and safety, at lower cost, so as to make them suitable for higher-power and more demanding applications such as electric vehicles. The research and development of new electrode materials, particularly for cathodes, having an improved electrochemical performance has always been a matter of changing focus. Thus, olivine, lithium iron phosphate, has attracted considerable attention in recent years as a safe, environmentally friendly, extremely stable and very promising cathode material.