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Introduction: Battery Materials: Bringing It All Together for Tomorrow’s Energy Storage Needs

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Computational Design of Battery Materials

Part of the book series: Topics in Applied Physics ((TAP,volume 150))

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The design and development of battery materials has emerged as a key enabler of our current technological era. Objectives of improving the capacity, rate capabilities, safety, economic feasibility and sustainability of battery systems stand behind efforts to innovate materials and their implementation. To glean insights into origins of performance in battery materials, a raft of computational tools are harnessed, many of which are surveyed in the pages of this book. The design of battery materials is a multidisciplinary challenge, which requires the involvement of scientists and engineers from diverse fields. The development and implementation of effective computational methods for the study of these battery materials and their behaviour is where these aspects are truly integrated. The content in this book provides fascinating insights into the plethora of intertwined physical and chemical phenomena at play in applied battery materials, and showcases numerous ingenious approaches to examine these through the aid of computational techniques.

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Hanaor, D.A.H. (2024). Introduction: Battery Materials: Bringing It All Together for Tomorrow’s Energy Storage Needs. In: Hanaor, D.A.H. (eds) Computational Design of Battery Materials. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47303-6_1

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