Metal Oxides in Supercapacitors

Metal Oxides in Supercapacitors addresses the fundamentals of metal oxide-based supercapacitors and provides an overview of recent advancements in this area. Metal oxides attract most of the materials scientists use due to their excellent physico-chemical properties and stability in electrochemical systems. This justification for the usage of metal oxides as electrode materials in supercapacitors is their potential to attain high capacitance at low cost. After providing the principles, the heart of the book discusses recent advances, including: binary metal oxides-based supercapacitors, nanotechnology, ternary metal oxides, polyoxometalates and hybrids. Moreover, the factors affecting the charge storage mechanism of metal oxides are explored in detail. The electrolytes, which are the soul of supercapacitors and a mostly ignored character of investigations, are also exposed in depth, as is the fabrication and design of supercapacitors and their merits and demerits. Lastly, the market status of supercapacitors and a discussion pointing out the future scope and directions of next generation metal oxides based supercapacitors is explored, making this a comprehensive book on the latest, cutting-edge research in the field.

Deepak P. Dubal, Ph.D, is currently working as a senior researcher at University of Adelaide, Australia. He worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow (BP-DGR) at Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain (2014), and a Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2012), Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Dr. Dubal received his Ph.D. in Physics from Shivaji University Kolhapur, India, in 2011. Since then he has been awarded at international and national (India) conferences for his research excellence. He is a member of the editorial board for Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group and Electrochemical Energy Technology (De Gruyder Publications). Dr. Dubal is the author of over 120 research articles, book chapters, and has filed seven patents. His research interests are focused on the chemical synthesis of nanostructured materials, hybrid nanomaterials and their applications in energy storage devices with special emphasis on Li-ion batteries, supercapacitors, Electrochemical Flow Cells, and Li-ion capacitors. Pedro Gomez-Romero, Ph.D., is a Full Professor at NEO-Energy Group Leader at Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain. Prof. Gomez-Romero received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Georgetown University, USA in 1987 with Distinction. He was a CSIC Researcher at ICMAB from 1990 to 2007, and took his sabbatical at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA (1998–99). Dr. Gomez-Romero is the leading scientist of 5 main national (Spanish) research projects and several international research projects. His research focuses on energy storage and conversion, advanced functional materials and nanocomposites, new oxides, polyoxometalates, and polymers. He is the editor of Functional Hybrid Materials (Wiley-VCH) and two award-winning books in the area of popular science. Dr. Gomez-Romero has published over 200 articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings as well as having filed 6 patents.