Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries: Materials, Technology, and New Applications

Lithium ion batteries are both an established commercial market as well as a field of constant research and crucial for technological leadership. For example, battery duration is an extremely important selling point with almost any portable or handheld electronic device. Notebook computers, digital cameras, mobile phones, PDAs, mp3–players all rely on lithium ion batteries. Ultimately, powerful batteries are needed in vehicles to supplement or even entirely replace combustion engines.
Starting out with an introduction to the fundamentals of lithium ion batteries, this book begins by describing in detail the new materials for all four major uses as cathodes, anodes, separators, and electrolytes. It then goes on to address such critical issues as self–discharge and passivation effects, highlighting lithium ion diffusion and its profound effect on a battery′s power density, life cycle and safety issues.
From the contents:General ConceptsLithium Insertion Materials Having Spinel–Framework Structure for Advanced BatteriesOverlithiated Li1+x (NizCo1–2zMnz)1–xO2 as Positive Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion BatteriesIron–Based Rare–Metal–Free CathodesThermodynamics of Electrode Materials for Lithium–Ion BatteriesRaman Investigation of Cathode Materials for Lithium BatteriesDevelopment of Lithium Ion Batteries: From the View Points of Importance of the ElectrolytesInorganic Additives and Electrode InterfaceCharacterization of Solid Polymer Electrolytes and Fabrication of All Solid–State Lithium Polymer Secondary BatteriesThin Film Metal Oxide Electrodes for Lithium MicrobatteriesResearch and Development Work on Advanced Lithium–Ion Batteries for High–Performance Environmental Vehicles

The monograph concludes with a detailed chapter on lithium ion batter y use in hybrid electric vehicles.
Invaluable reading for materials scientists, electrochemists, physicists, and those working in the automobile and electrotechnical industries, as well as those working in computer hardware and the semiconductor industry.


Spis treści:
Preface.
List of Contributors.
1. General Concepts (Kenzo Matsuki and Kazunori Ozawa).
2. Lithium Insertion Materials Having Spinel–Framework Structure for Advanced Batteries (Kingo Ariyoshi, Yoshinari Makimura, and Tsutomu Ohzuku).
3. Overlithiated Li1+X (NiZ Co1–2zMnZ)1–xO2 as Positive Electrode Materials for Lithium–Ion Batteries (Naoaki Kumagai and Jung–Min Kim).
4. Iron–Based Rare–Metal–Free Cathodes (Shigeto Okada and Jun–ichi Yamaki).
5. Thermodynamics of Electrode Materials for Lithium–Ion Batteries (Rachid Yazami).
6. Raman Investigation of Cathode Materials for Lithium Batteries (Rita Baddour–Hadjean and Jean–Pierre Pereira–Ramos).
7. Development of Lithium–Ion Batteries: From the Viewpoint of Importance of the Electrolytes (Masaki Yoshio, Hiroyoshi Nakamura, and Nikolay Dimov).
8. Inorganic Additives and Electrode Interface (Shinichi Komaba).
9. Characterization of Solid Polymer Electrolytes and Fabrication of all Solid–State Lithium Polymer Secondary Batteries (Masataka Wakihara, Masanobu Nakayama, and Yuki Kato).
10. Thin–Film Metal–Oxide Electrodes for Lithium Microbatteries (Jean–Pierre Pereira–Ramos and Rita Baddour–Hadjean).
11. Research and Development Work on Advanced Lithium–Ion Batteries for High–Performance Environmental Vehicles (Hideaki Horie).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Kazunori Ozawa is President and CEO of Enax Inc. in Tokyo, Japan. Having studied physics and metallurgy at Tokyo and Pennsylvania Univer sities, he obtained his doctoral degree of engineering from Tohoku University with research on magnetic thin films. He spent most of his career working at the Sony Corporation in the field of ceramics, magnetic materials and batteries. He founded ENAX, Inc. in 1996, a specialist lithium ion battery company based in Tokyo that cooperates with numerous well–known international corporations. In 1994 he received both the Technology Paper Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in Japan and the United States′ ECS Technology Award, as well as in 2006 the IBA Technology Award.

Okładka tylna:
Lithium ion batteries are both an established commercial market as well as a field of constant research and crucial for technological leadership. For example, battery duration is an extremely important selling point with almost any portable or handheld electronic device. Notebook computers, digital cameras, mobile phones, PDAs, mp3–players all rely on lithium ion batteries. Ultimately, powerful batteries are needed in vehicles to supplement or even entirely replace combustion engines.
Starting out with an introduction to the fundamentals of lithium ion batteries, this book begins by describing in detail the new materials for all four major uses as cathodes, anodes, separators, and electrolytes. It then goes on to address such critical issues as self–discharge and passivation effects, highlighting lithium ion diffusion and its profound effect on a battery′s power density, life cycle and safety issues.
From the contents:General ConceptsLithium Insertion Materials Having Spinel–Framework Structure for Advanced BatteriesOverlithiated Li1+x (NizCo1–2zMnz)1–xO2 as Positive Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion BatteriesIron–Based Rare–Metal–Free CathodesThermodynamics of Electrode Materials for Lithium–Ion BatteriesRaman Investigation of Cathode Materials for Lithium BatteriesDevelopment of Lithium Ion Batteries: From the View Points of Importance of the ElectrolytesInorganic Additives and Electrode InterfaceCharacterization of Solid Polymer Electrolytes and Fabrication of All Solid–State Lithium Polymer Secondary BatteriesThin Film Metal Oxide Electrodes for Lithium MicrobatteriesResearch and Development Work on Advanced Lithium–Ion Batteries for High–Performance Environmental Vehicles

The monograph concludes with a detailed chapter on lithium ion battery use in hybrid electric vehicles.
Invaluable reading for materials scientists, electrochemists, physicists, and those working in the automobile and electrotechnical industries, as well as those working in computer hardware and the semiconductor industry.