Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Materials, Challenges and Applications

Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Materials, Challenges, and Applications presents the advantages of lithium-sulfur batteries, such as high theoretical capacity, low cost, and stability, while also addressing some of the existing challenges. Some of the challenges are low electrical conductivity, the possible reaction of sulfur with lithium to form a soluble lithium salt, the formation of the dendrimer, large volume variation of cathode materials during the electrochemical reaction, and shuttle behavior of highly soluble intermediate polysulfides in the electrolyte. This book provides some possible solutions to these issues through novel architecture, using composite materials, doping to improve low conductivity, etc., as well as emphasizing novel materials, architectural concepts, and methods to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries.

Table of Contents:
PART 1: BASIC PRINCIPLES  1. Introduction to electrochemical energy storage technologies 2. A recent development in Li-S batteries 3. Chemistry and operation of Li–S batteries 4. High-performance Lithium-Sulfur batteries: Role of nanotechnology and nanoengineering 5. Mathematical modeling of Li–S batteries 6. Nanomaterials for advanced Li-S batteries: An introduction 7. Nanocomposites for binder-free Li-S electrodes   8. Separators for Li–S batteries 9. Progress and Perspective of separators towards high-performance lithium sulfur batteries 10. Electrolytes for Li–S batteries PART 2: NANOMATERIALS AND NANOSTRUCTURES FOR SULFUR CATHODES 11. Porous carbon-sulfur composite cathodes 12. Recent advancement on nanocomposites of carbon / sulfur electrodes for lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries 13. Advances in nanomaterials for sulfurized carbon cathodes 14. Graphene-sulfur composite cathodes 15. Nanocomposites of graphene-sulfur as cathode materials and separators for Li-S batteries 16. Graphene-sulfur nanohybrids for cathodes in Li-S batteries  17. Metal-organic framework-based cathode materials in Li-S batteries 18. MXene-based sulfur composite cathodes 19. Polymeric nanocomposites for Li-S batteries  20. Design of nanostructured sulfur cathodes for high-performance lithium-sulfur battery 21. Nanostructured additives and binders for sulfur cathodes PART 3: LITHIUM METAL ANODES: MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY 22. Metallic Li anode: An introduction 23. Advanced carbon-based nanostructured framework for Li anodes 24. Carbon-based anode materials for lithium-ion batteries PART 4: APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES 25. Li-S batteries for marine applications 26. Two-dimensional layered materials for flexible electronics and batteries 27. Sustainability in Li–S batteries 28. Recyclability and recycling technologies for lithium-sulfur batteries 29. Recyclability, circular economy, and environmental aspects of Lithium-sulfur batteries

About the Author :
Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. He is the Director of Research at the National Institute for Materials Advancement (NIMA). Dr. Gupta has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2% of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Dr. Gupta’s research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including: semiconducting materials & devices, biopolymers, flame-retardant polymers, green energy production & storage using nanostructured materials & conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics & photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold & antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants. Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience. Huaihe Song is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Materials and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He has 28 years of experience in the field of carbon materials research. His research area is in the preparation of advanced carbon materials and their applications, including pitch-based carbon materials (mesophase pitch and mesocarbon microbeads), carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon-encapsulated metal nanomaterials, and onion-like carbons), carbon-based materials for energy storage (lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors), and mesoporous carbons (ordered mesoporous carbons and carbon aerogels). Ghulam Yasin is a researcher in the School of Environment and Civil Engineering at Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China. His expertise covers the design and development of hybrid devices and technologies of carbon nanostructures and advanced nanomaterials for for real-world impact in energy-related and other functional applications.