This book provides a comprehensive summary of experimental analytical techniques applicable to wide ranges of electrochemical energy storage materials and gives the latest review of state-of-the-art methodologies.

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.