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Advanced Batteries and Improvements
inElectrode Materials
Ashok Kumar Shukla, Vedam Ganesh Kumar
andMusuwathiKrishnamoorthy Ravikumar
The improvement in battery science and technology is a critical link in the
transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources. In particular, the
emerging eld of nanotechnology promises not only higher-energy-density
batteries but also rechargeable batteries with a longer lifetime. This chap-
ter is an effort to elaborate on technological developments that are cur-
rently being undertaken for improving cathodes, anodes and electrolytes
for rechargeable batteries by keeping the common characterist ...