Elsevier Advanced Fluoride-Based Materials for Energy Conversion

Advanced Fluoride-Based Materials for Energy Conversion provides thorough and applied information on new fluorinated materials for chemical energy devices, exploring the electrochemical properties and behavior of fluorinated materials in lithium ion and sodium ion batteries, fluoropolymers in fuel cells, and fluorinated carbon in capacitors, while also exploring synthesis applications, and both safety and stability issues. As electronic devices, from cell phones to hybrid and electric vehicles, are increasingly common and prevalent in modern lives and require dependable, stable chemical energy devices with high-level functions are becoming increasingly important. As research and development in this area progresses rapidly, fluorine compounds play a critical role in this rapid progression. Fluorine, with its small size and the highest electronegativity, yields stable compounds under various conditions for utilization as electrodes, electrolytes, and membranes in energy devices. The book is an ideal reference for the chemist, researcher, technician, or academic, presenting valuable, current insights into the synthesis of fluorine compounds and fluorination reactions using fluorinating agents. * Provides thorough and applied information on new fluorinated materials for chemical energy devices* Describes the emerging role of stable energy devices with high-level functions and the research surrounding the technology* Ideal for the chemist, research, technician, or academic seeking current insights into the synthesis of fluorine compounds and fluorination reactions using fluorinating agents Review An all-encompassing look at the properties and functions of fluorinated materials, including guidance on fluorination reactions and techniques for chemical energy devices From the Back Cover In 1973, the importance of fluorine compounds as energy materials was recognized by using graphite fluorides, (CF)n, as positive electrodes in primary lithium batteries. Since then, efforts have been made to use fluorinated materials in all the constituents of a battery. Advanced Fluoride-Based Materials for Energy Conversion describes advanced information on fluoride-based materials for energy storage. In connection with their exceptional properties, fluorinated materials offer a vast panel of uses in electrochemical storage devices such as lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells, and capacitors. It also shows the fundamental properties and unique functions of fluorinated compounds to highly improve the electrochemical performance of such energy storage devices. This book also focuses on new and promising batteries, such as sodium- and fluoride-ion batteries, and also reviews newer fluorinated compounds used as fluorinated binder, electrolyte, additives, etc., in commercial storage devices. This book is suitable for students, researchers, and engineers working in chemistry, materials science, and electrical engineering. Key features: Discusses the unique functions of fluorine in energy materials Demonstrates that fluorine compounds and fluorination techniques are useful for batteries, fuel cells, and capacitors Offers advanced information on fluorinated binder, electrolyte, additives materials for batteries, fuel cells, and capacitors About the Author Tsuyoshi Nakajima is Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, Aichi Institute of Technology in Japan. He has worked on fluorine chemistry and electrochemistry (that is, fluorinated materials) for primary and rechargeable lithium batteries, and fluorine-, fluoride-, or oxyfluoride-graphite intercalation compounds. Li/(CF)n battery is the first primary lithium battery commercialized on the basis of the research on graphite fluoride which was performed in his laboratory at Kyoto University. His research was on the discharge mechanism of Li/(CF)n battery and synthesis of graphite fluoride, (CF)n with excellent discharge performance. The impor