An of-the-moment treatment of liquid electrolytes used in lithium metal batteries

Considered by many as the most-promising next-generation batteries, lithium metal batteries have grown in popularity due to their low potential and high capacity. Crucial to the development of this technology, electrolytes can provide efficient electrode electrolyte interfaces, assuring the interconversion of chemical and electrical energy. The quality of electrode electrolyte interphase, in turn, directly governs the performance of batteries.

In Liquid Electrolyte Chemistry, provides a comprehensive look at the current understanding and status of research regarding liquid electrolytes for lithium metal batteries. Offering an introduction to lithium-based batteries from development history to their working mechanisms, the book further offers a glimpse at modification strategies of anode electrolyte interphases and cathode electrolytic interphases. More, by discussing the high-voltage electrolytes from their solvents—organic solvents and ionic liquids—to electrolyte additives, the text provides a thorough understanding on liquid electrolyte chemistry in the remit of lithium metal batteries.

Liquid Electrolyte Chemistry for Lithium Metal Batteries readers will also find:

• A unique focus that reviews the development of liquid electrolytes for lithium metal batteries
• State-of-the-art progress and development of electrolytes for lithium metal batteries
• Consideration of safety, focusing the design principles of flame retardant and non-flammable electrolytes
• Principles and progress on low temperature and high temperature electrolytes

Liquid Electrolyte Chemistry for Lithium Metal Batteries is a useful reference for electrochemists, solid state chemists, inorganic chemists, physical chemists, surface chemists, materials scientists, and the libraries that supply them.

Jianmin Ma is Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the Shanxi Normal University in 2003 and Ph.D. degree in Materials Physics and Chemistry from Nankai University in 2011. During 2011–2015, he also conducted the research in several overseas universities as a postdoctoral research associate. He serves as the Academic Editor for Rare Metals, the Associate Editor for Chinese Chemical Letters, and editorial board member for Journal of Energy Chemistry, Nano-Micro Letters, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, JPhys Energy, and others. His research interest focuses on the energy storage devices and components including metal anodes and electrolytes, and theoretical calculations from Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics to Finite Element Analysis.