This book delves into the key aspects of lithium/sulfur batteries, exploring their electrochemistry, reaction mechanisms, disadvantages, and characterization methods. It highlights recent advances in designing nanostructured electrode materials, including various carbon-host materials, polymer-derived materials, binder-free sulfur-hosts, and metal oxides. The impact of these nanostructures on battery properties such as capacitance, rate capability, and cycle stability is discussed, providing guidelines for future electrode design. The book also reviews the progress in electrolytes and the development of advanced separators, such as functionalized polyolefins, carbon-metal oxide hybrids, and electrospun materials, and presents the future outlook and challenges in this field.

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Amadou Belal Gueye is a research scholar at the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He received his bachelor's degree in Physics-Chemistry and his master's degree in Physical Chemistry Applied to Energy and Analysis from Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal. His research focuses on energy storage within the framework of his thesis.

Prof. Sabu Thomas is the chairman of Trivandrum Engineering Science & Technology Research Park (TrEST Research Park). He also serves as the director of the School of Energy Materials, the School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the International and Inter-University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Prof. Thomas was the vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University (2019-2023) and is internationally acclaimed for his work in Nanoscience and Polymer Science and Engineering.