Polymer and Ceramic Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices features two volumes that focus on the most recent technological and scientific accomplishments in polymer, ceramic, and specialty electrolytes and their applications in lithium-ion batteries. These volumes cover the fundamentals in a logical and clear manner for students, as well as researchers from different disciplines, to follow. The set includes the following volumes: Polymer Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices, Volume I, offers a detailed explanation of recent progress and challenges in polymer electrolyte research for energy storage devices. Ceramic and Specialty Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices, Volume II, investigates recent progress and challenges in a wide range of ceramic solid and quasi-solid electrolytes and specialty electrolytes for energy storage devices. These volumes will be invaluable to researchers and engineers working on the development of next-generation energy storage devices, including materials and chemical engineers, as well as those involved in related disciplines. About the Author Dr. Prasanth Raghavn is a professor in the Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). He received his PhD in Engineering from the Geyongsang National University in 2009, under the prestigious Brain Korea (BK21) Fellowship. He completed his B.Tech and M.Tech from CUSAT, India. After serving a few years as Project Scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-D), New Delhi, he moved abroad for his PhD studies in 2007. His PhD research was focused on the fabrication and investigation of nanoscale fibrous electrolytes for high performance energy storage devices. He completed his Engineering doctoral degree in less than three years, an unbroken record in the Republic of Korea. After obtaining his PhD, Dr. Prasanth joined as a research scientist at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in collaboration with the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N) and TUM CREATE, a joint electromobility research centre between Germany's Technische Universität München (TUM) and NTU. After 4 years in Singapore, Dr. Prasanth moved to Rice University as a research scientist, where he worked with Prof. Pulickal M Ajayan, the co-inventor of Carbon Nanotubes. Dr. Prasanth was selected for the Brain Korea Fellowship (2007), SAGE Research Foundation Fellowship, Brazil (2009), Estonian Science Foundation Fellowship, European Science Foundation Fellowship (2010), Faculty Recharge, and UGC (2015). He received several international awards including the Young Scientist award from the Korean Electrochemical Society (2009) and the Bharat Vikas Yuva Ratna Award (2016). He developed many products such as high performance breaking parachutes, flex wheels for space shuttles, high performance lithium ion batteries for leading portable electronic devices and automobile industries. He has a general research interest in polymer synthesis and processing, nanomaterials, green/nanocomposites, and electrospinning. His current research is focused on nanoscale materials and polymer composites for printed and light weight charge storage solutions, including high temperature supercapacitors and batteries. He has published numerous research papers, books, and book chapters in high impact factor journals, and has more than 5000 citation and an h-index of 30 plus. Apart from science and technology, Dr. Prasanth is a poet, activist and a columnist in online portals and printed media. Dr. Jabeen Fatima M. J is a research scientist at Dr. Prasanth Raghvan’s research group at Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (PSRT), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Cochin, India. Before joining to Dr. Prasanth’s research group, she was working as a tentative Assistant Professor at Department of NanoScience and Technology, University of Calicut, India. She
