Computational Modelling Approaches to Energy Storage Materials. Operating Mechanisms, State-of-the-Art Methods, and Applications to the Atomistic Modelling of Batteries and Capacitors. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

One of the most important goals in sustainable energy management is the design of new energy storage materials capable of increasing battery performance, durability, and at the same time, taking up the global challenge of increasing the energy saving capabilities through sustainable solutions. Atomistic design has experienced a tremendous boost in the last two decades thanks to the implementation and application of quantum mechanics and molecular dynamics-based approaches coupled, very recently, to artificial intelligent/machine learning algorithms. Such methods pave the way for the discovery and design of new materials for energy storage technologies. Computational Modelling Approaches to Energy Storage Materials: Operating Mechanisms, State-of-the-Art Methods, and Applications to the Atomistic Modelling of Batteries and Capacitors demonstrates how theoretical and computational chemistry methods can be applied in describing and predicting the properties of energy storage materials. Part I of the book introduces the reader to this heterogeneous topic, providing a general overview of the different types of batteries and capacitors, highlighting (from both historical and mechanistic points of view) the physical and operating principles of such systems. Part II contains the methodological core of the book, in terms of theoretical and computational methods. Most existing books includes a similar section where the formalisms of different methods are given, such as by explaining the theoretical concepts. Although this approach is certainly valid, this book goes a step further by giving more relevance to the computational side. Part III concerns the application of the methods described in Part II (as standalones or as a combination of those methods) to study mechanisms, processes, properties, and working principles of several energy storage systems, all based on the initial description in Part I. Computational Modelling Approaches to Energy Storage Materials is written primarily for chemists, physicists and materials scientists at graduate, post-doc, and researcher level (with both theory and experimental background), wishing to apply computational methods to model the complexity of energy storage materials. The book will be highly relevant to researchers interested in applying different atomistic methods to the topic of energy materials, as well as specialists across the fields of physics, chemistry, materials science, and related engineering areas who require a better understanding of materials modelling.

Part I: Operating Mechanisms to Store Energy
1. Electrochemical Energy Storage Based on Inorganic Redox Couples: An Historical Perspective
2. Electrochemical Energy Storage Based on Organic Batteries: Challenges and Potentialities
3. Storing Solar Energy as Chemical Energy: From Principles to Devices
4. Hydrogen Storage: The Chemical Viewpoint

Part II: Theoretical and Computational Methods and Protocols
5. Density Functional Theory
6. Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemistry Methods
7. Molecular Dynamics Strategies
8. Machine Learning Approaches

Part III: The Design of Structures and Properties
9. Inorganic Electrode Materials
10. Organic Electrode Materials
11. The Electrode-Electrolyte Interface
12. Redox-Flow Batteries
13. Electrochemical Materials for Neuromorphic Computing
14. Molecular Solar-Thermal Systems: The Norbornadiene/Quadricyclane Couple
15. Molecular Solar-Thermal Systems: Revisiting Photoswitching Mechanisms and Seeking for Novel Ones
16. Hydrogen Storage Materials: Metal Hydrides
17. Hydrogen Storage Materials: Ammonia Borane and Derivatives
18. Hydrogen Storage Materials: Sorbent Materials

Authors

Daniele Fazzi Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician", University of Bologna, Italy.

Daniele Fazzi is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician" of the University of Bologna, Italy, an appointment he took up in 2021. He earned his PhD in 2010 at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), in Materials Engineering with a thesis on "Modelling of charge transport properties and photoinduced processes in organic conjugated materials�. From 2010 to 2013 he was Post Doc. at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Center for Nano Science and Technology in Milan (Italy). In 2013 he moved to the Max-Planck Institute fuer Kohlenforschung (MPI-KOFO), at Muelheim an der Rurh, Germany, working in the Department of Theoretical Chemistry. In 2014 he was awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellowship with a project focused on modeling non-adiabatic excited state dynamics in organic functional materials. In 2017 he was awarded by a Principle Investigator Grant funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), becoming Group Leader at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Cologne (UoC), Germany, working in the group of Prof. K. Meerholz. At UoC (2018-2021) he worked on multi-scale modelling of charge and energy transport properties of functional materials. He is the author of more than seventy scientific publications and two book chapters.

Marco Marazzi Physical Chemistry Unit, University of Alcal�, Spain.

Marco Marazzi is an Associate Professor at the Physical Chemistry Unit of the University of Alcal�, Spain. He obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry with a major in Materials Chemistry at the Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, his Masters in Polymer Science in Berlin, Germany and his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Alcal�, Spain in 2013, working on the theoretical development and computational application of photochemical and photophysical tools. After postdoctoral stages at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, as a Humboldt fellow, the French national research council (CNRS), and the University of La Rioja, Spain, strengthening his skills in excited state molecular dynamics and in different photoinduced processes, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Alcal� in 2019. Since then, his interests have included the design of solar energy storage systems, as well as hydrogen release and photoinduced hydrogen production. He was visiting researcher at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, and Universit� Gustave Eiffel, France. He is the author of more than seventy journal publications, four book chapters, and was co-Editor of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry (Elsevier, 2023) with Cristina Garc�a Iriepa

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