Energy Storage Materials Characterization

Chapter I. Introduction Part I X-ray techniques Chapter 2. X-ray Diffraction Chapter 3. X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Chapter 4. Photoemission spectroscopy for energy storage materials Chapter 5. Application of X-ray pair distribution function (PDF) to investigate battery systems Chapter 6. X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy Chapter 7. X-ray Tomography Microscopy Chapter 8. Transmission X-ray Microscopy Chapter 9. Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging Part II. Neutron techniques Chapter 10. A General Introduction of Neutron Techniques Chapter 11. Neutron Diffraction for Energy Storage Materials Chapter 12. Neutron Scattering Chapter 13. Neutron Depth Profile Chapter 14. Neutron Imaging Part III. Optical techniques Chapter 15. UV-Vis Spectroscopy for Energy Storage and Related Materials Chapter 16. Raman Spectroscopy Chapter 17. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Chapter 18. Optical Microscopy Part IV. Microwave techniques Chapter 19. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chapter 20. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Part V. Electron techniques Chapter 21. Morphology dependent energy storage performance of supercapacitors and batteries: Scanning Electron Microscopy as an essential tool for material characterization Chapter 22. Transmission Electron Microscopy Chapter 23. Cryo-Electron Microscopy Chapter 24. Structural/chemical characterization of alkali-ion battery materials using electron energy-loss spectroscopy coupled with transmission electron microscopy Chapter 25. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Part VI. Advanced techniques Chapter 26. Combined in-situ techniques Chapter 27. Non-destructive techniques

Yongbing Tang is a professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) and Director of Functional Thin Films Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, director of the Engineering Center of Guangdong Province and the Engineering Laboratory of Shenzhen, Leading Talents of Guangdong Special Support Program, and High-level Professional Talents of Shenzhen. His research mainly focuses on the technology development and application of functional thin films and new energy storage materials/devices (multivalent-ion battery, dual-ion battery, etc.). To date, Prof. Yongbing Tang has authored over 160 scientific papers (including Nat. Chem., Nat. Commun., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Nano Lett., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater.) and 68 papers with an impact factor of over 10. He has applied 406 patents, including 268 invention patents (12 US/EU/Japan/South Korea patents included), 48 PCT patents, and 128 granted patents, in which 23 patents have been transferred for industrialization. Dr Wenjiao Yao obtained her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 2014 from Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and worked in School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews as a Newton International fellow during 2015-2017. She joint Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS since 2018 and currently is an associate researcher. Her research interest covers the design and optimization of energy storage materials, the structure-property relationship, and the investigation of working mechanism by advanced techniques.