Comprehensive resource providing in-depth knowledge about nanowire-based energy storage technologies

Nanowire Energy Storage Devices focuses on the energy storage applications of nanowires, covering the synthesis and principles of nanowire electrode materials and their characterization, and performance control. Major parts of the book are devoted to the applications of nanowire-based ion batteries, high energy batteries, supercapacitors, micro-nano energy storage devices, and flexible energy storage devices. The book also addresses global energy challenges by explaining how nanowires allow for the design and fabrication of devices that provide sustainable energy generation.

With contributions from the founders of the field of nanowire technology, Nanowire Energy Storage Devices covers topics such as:

• Physical and chemical properties, thermodynamics, and kinetics of nanowires, and basic performance parameters of nanowire-based electrochemical energy storage devices
• Conventional, porous, hierarchical, heterogeneous, and hollow nanomaterials, and in-situ electron microscopic and spectroscopy characterization
• Electrochemistry, advantages, and issues of lithium-ion batteries, unique characteristic of nanowires for lithium-ion batteries, and nanowires as anodes in lithium-ion batteries
• Nanowires for other energy storage devices, including metal-air, polyvalent ion, alkaline, and sodium/lithium-sulfur batteries

Elucidating the design, synthesis, and energy storage applications, Nanowire Energy Storage Devices is an essential resource for materials scientists, electrochemists, electrical engineers, and solid state physicists.

Liqiang Mai is Chair Professor of materials science and engineering at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT). He is Changjiang Scholar Professor and Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund of China. He received his PhD degree from WUT in 2004. He worked as an advanced research scholar at Harvard University from 2008 to 2011 and Prof. Peidong Yang's group at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2017.