Liquid Metal Batteries: Chemistry, Advancements, and Challenges

This book offers a broad overview of the current knowledge and future challenges in liquid metal batteries. It details the fundamental science of liquid metal batteries, materials for cathode and anode, various synthesis methods, and approaches to modify their properties to provide high energy and power densities, along with long life. It offers a broad overview of current research and future challenges in this exciting field.

• Covers materials, chemistry, and technologies for liquid metal batteries
• Discusses the state of the art and challenges
• Explains the fundamentals of electrochemical behavior of liquid metal batteries
• Offers insight into design and architectural aspects
• Provides new direction to scientists, researchers, and students to better understand the chemistry, electrochemical properties, and technologies of liquid metal batteries

With chapters written by experts in energy from around the globe, this book serves as a textbook for advanced students and offers new guidelines to researchers and industries working in energy and materials engineering.

Ram K. Gupta is a Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University and Director of Research at the National Institute for Materials Advancement (NIMA). Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on green energy production and storage using conducting polymers and composites, electrocatalysts for fuel cells, nanomaterials, optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices, organic-inorganic hetero-junctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants. Dr. Gupta has published over 290 peer-reviewed articles, made over 450 national/international/ regional presentations, chaired many sessions at national/international meetings, edited/written several books/chapters for the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, CRC, Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. He has received several million dollars for research and educational activities from external agencies. He serves as Associate Editor, Guest Editor, and editorial board member for various journals.