Flow Batteries

Flow Batteries presents a comprehensive examination of this critical energy storage technology at the forefront of renewable energy integration. Compiling all the major topics in one book, chapters are authored by experts in energy areas, providing state-of-the-art information about flow batteries, their challenges, and applications. Detailed coverage is given to the chemistry and electrochemical characteristics of flow batteries, as well as offering insight into tuning the properties of redox-active materials to improve their electrochemical performances. It provides new directions to scientists, researchers, and students to better understand the principles, technologies, and challenges in flow batteries. This is a timely resource for students studying materials science, and for researchers working in the green energy, materials, and nanotechnology industries.

Ram K. Gupta is a Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. He is the Associate Vice President for Research Strategy and Advancement at Pittsburg State University. He has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2 percent of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. His research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including semiconducting materials and devices, biopolymers, flame-retardant polymers, green energy production and storage using nanostructured materials and conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants. He has mentored ten Ph.D./Postdoc scholars, 76 MS students, and 58 undergraduate/high school students. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed journal articles (15000+ citations, 67 h-index, 312 i10-index); presented more than 650 national, international, regional presentations; chaired and organized many sessions at national and international meetings; wrote several book chapters (150+); worked as editor for many books (60+) for American Chemical Society, CRC, Springer, Elsevier, etc.; and received several million dollars for research and educational activities from external agencies. He is also serving as editor, associate editor, guest editor, and editorial board member of various journals.

1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of Flow Batteries 3. Materials and Chemicals of Flow Batteries 4. Materials for Flow Battery: Chemical Structures, Compositions, and Chemistries 5. Molecular Engineering Strategies for Flow Batteries 6. Electrocatalysts for Flow Batteries 7. Electrolytes for Flow Batteries 8. Advancements in Electrocatalysts: Powering the Future of Flow Battery Technology 9. Recent developments in Membrane for Flow Batteries 10. Microfluidic Flow Batteries 11. Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Flow Batteries 12. Flow Battery Dynamics: Analyzing Performance and Modeling 13. Flowing Power: Innovations in Alkaline Batteries 14. Alkaline Flow Batteries 15. Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFB) 16. Zinc-Nickel Flow Batteries 17. Current Progress and Perspective of Rechargeable Zinc-Bromine Flow Batteries 18. Organic Solar Flow Batteries: Prospect, Feasibility and Challenge 19. Other Flow Battery Chemistries 20. Emerging Applications of Flow Batteries 21. Challenges and Limitations