Solid State Batteries: Materials Design and Optimization - Nazri, Gholam-Abbas

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Résumé :
The field of solid state ionics is multidisciplinary in nature. Chemists, physicists, electrochimists, and engineers all are involved in the research and development of materials, techniques, and theoretical approaches. This science is one of the great triumphs of the second part of the 20th century. For nearly a century, development of materials for solid-state ionic technology has been restricted. During the last two decades there have been remarkable advances: more materials were discovered, modem technologies were used for characterization and optimization of ionic conduction in solids, trial and error approaches were deserted for defined predictions. During the same period fundamental theories for ion conduction in solids appeared. The large explosion of solid-state ionic material science may be considered to be due to two other influences. The first aspect is related to economy and connected with energy production, storage, and utilization. There are basic problems in industrialized countries from the economical, environmental, political, and technological points of view. The possibility of storing a large amount of utilizable energy in a comparatively small volume would make a number of non-conventional intermittent energy sources of practical convenience and cost. The second aspect is related to huge increase in international relationships between researchers and exchanges of results make considerable progress between scientists; one find many institutes joined in common search programs such as the material science networks organized by EEC in the European countries.

Sommaire:
Dr. Christian M. Julien received his engineer degree in Physics from Conservatoire des Arts et M?tiers, Paris and obtained his PhD in materials science from Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He has 45 years of research experience in the field of solid state ionics and materials for energy storage and conversion, and, has developed lithium micro-batteries. He is especially well known for his contributions on vibrational spectroscopy of lithium intercalation compounds. He was director of NATO Advanced Study Institutes on intercalation compounds and materials for batteries. He is investigating cathode and anode materials for supercapacitors, lithium-ion, lithium-metal and lithium-sulfur batteries. Dr. Julien has served The Electrochemical Society as coorganiser of technical symposia and he is editorial board member of Ionics, Material Science Engineering B, Green Chemical Technology, academic editor of Nanomaterials, Materials and Inorganics and editor-in-chief of Nanoarchitectonics. He is an author or co-author of over 900 research articles. Dr. Alain Mauger attended the University of Paris where he graduated in solid state physics, obtained the PhD degree in 1974, and Doctorat d'?tat in 1980. His work focussed on the theory of impurities in semi-metals, electronic structure of solids, and magnetic semiconductors. He left Paris to spend a year at the University of California, Irvine where he continued his work on magnetic semiconductors and optical properties of liquid crystals in collaboration with Professor D.L. Mills and shared his time between the University of Paris and the University of California up to 1985. He went on to do research at the University of Paris 07 on spin glasses and statistical physics. Since 1992, he has been at University Paris 06, leading different groups on solid state and complex matter physics, before joining IMPMC in 2007 to work on the materials science for Li-ion batteries....