Introduction to Metal-Air Batteries: Theory and Basic Principles / Zhiwen Chang, Xin-bo Zhang -- Stabilization of Lithium-Metal Anode in Rechargeable Lithium-Air Batteries / Bin Liu, Wu Xu, Ji-Guang Zhang -- Li-Air Batteries: Discharge Products / Xuanxuan Bi, Rongyue Wang, Jun Lu -- Electrolytes for Li-O2 Batteries / Alex R Neale, Peter Goodrich, Christopher Hardacre, Johan Jacquemin -- Li-Oxygen Battery: Parasitic Reactions / Xiahui Yao, Qi Dong, Qingmei Cheng, Dunwei Wang -- Li-Air Battery: Electrocatalysts / Zhiwen Chang, Xin-bo Zhang -- Lithium-Air Battery Mediator / Zhuojian Liang, Guangtao Cong, Yu Wang, Yi-Chun Lu -- Spatiotemporal Operando X-ray Diffraction Study on Li-Air Battery / Di-Jia Liu, Jiang-Lan Shui -- Metal-Air Battery: In Situ Spectroelectrochemical Techniques / Iain M Aldous, Laurence J Hardwick, Richard J Nichols, J Padmanabhan Vivek -- Zn-Air Batteries / Tongwen Yu, Rui Cai, Zhongwei Chen -- Experimental and Computational Investigation of Nonaqueous Mg/O2 Batteries / Jeffrey G Smith, Gülin Vardar, Charles W Monroe, Donald J Siegel -- Novel Methodologies to Model Charge Transport in Metal-Air Batteries / Nicolai Rask Mathiesen, Marko Melander, Mikael Kuisma, Pablo García-Fernández, Juan Maria García Lastra -- Flexible Metal-Air Batteries / Huisheng Peng, Yifan Xu, Jian Pan, Yang Zhao, Lie Wang, Xiang Shi -- Perspectives on the Development of Metal-Air Batteries / Zhiwen Chang, Xin-bo Zhang.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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A comprehensive overview of the research developments in the burgeoning field of metal-air batteries An innovation in battery science and technology is necessary to build better power sources for our modern lifestyle needs. One of the main fields being explored for the possible breakthrough is the development of metal-air batteries. Metal-Air Batteries: Fundamentals and Applications offers a systematic summary of the fundamentals of the technology and explores the most recent advances in the applications of metal-air batteries. Comprehensive in scope, the text explains the basics in electrochemical batteries and introduces various species of metal-air batteries. The author-a noted expert in the field-explores the development of metal-air batteries in the order of Li-air battery, sodium-air battery, zinc-air battery and Mg-O2 battery, with the focus on the Li-air battery. The text also addresses topics such as metallic anode, discharge products, parasitic reactions, electrocatalysts, mediator, and X-ray diffraction study in Li-air battery. Metal-Air Batteries provides a summary of future perspectives in the field of the metal-air batteries. This important resource: -Covers various species of metal-air batteries and their components as well as system designation -Contains groundbreaking content that reviews recent advances in the field of metal-air batteries -Focuses on the battery systems which have the greatest potential for renewable energy storage Written for electrochemists, physical chemists, materials scientists, professionals in the electrotechnical industry, engineers in power technology, Metal-Air Batteries offers a review of the fundamentals and the most recent developments in the area of metal-air batteries.