Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction
1. Types of batteries in market and their statistics
2. Nanomaterials in batteries
3. Closed loop in battery recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing
4. Nanotechnology and recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing battery
5. Available technologies for recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries: An introduction
6. Underdevelopment and promising technologies of recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries: An introduction
7. Modeling and analysis tools for recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries: An introduction

Part 2: Recycling, Remanufacturing and Reusing Batteries
8. Environmental aspects of recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries
9. Economical aspects of recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries
10. Safety aspects of recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries
11. Government supports and incentive programs for recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries
12. Regulations and standards for recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries
13. Disassembly of battery packs for recycling
14. Industry experience in recycling, remanufacturing, and reusing batteries

Part 3: Nanotechnology for Battery Recycling
15. Mechanical and physical processes of battery recycling and the role of nanotechnology
16. Pyrometallurgical processes of battery recycling and the role of nanotechnology
17. Hydrometallurgical processes of battery recycling and the role of nanotechnology
18. Emerging processes and technologies of battery recycling and the role of nanotechnology
19. Separation technologies of nanomaterials from batteries
20. Regeneration technologies of nanomaterials of recycled batteries
21. Equipment for recycling batteries and separation of nanomaterials
22. Potential environmental impacts of non-recycled battery nanomaterials
23. Battery design to improve its recyclability

Part 4: Recycling Battery Components and Nanomaterials
24. Recycling battery cathode materials
25. Recycling battery anode materials
26. Recycling battery electrolyte materials
27. Recycling battery current collector materials
28. Recycling of battery casing materials
29. Recycling battery polymer materials
30. Recycling battery ceramic materials
31. Recycling battery metallic materials
32. Recycling lithium, cobalt, and nickel and returning to battery production cycle

Part 5: Battery Remanufacturing and Reusing from Recycled Nanomaterials
33. Battery manufacturing from recycled nanomaterials
34. Blending fresh and recycled nanomaterials in battery manufacturing
35. Applications of batteries made from recycled nanomaterials
36. Safety of batteries made from recycled nanomaterials
37. Current and future market for batteries made from recycled nanomaterials
38. Performance of batteries made from recycled nanomaterials
39. Industry experience in using batteries made from recycled nanomaterials
40. Future trends and threats for remanufacturing and reusing batteries from recycled nanomaterials

About the Author

Siamak Farhad is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at The University of Akron,
Ohio, USA. His primary and secondary research fields are energy and measurement, with a focus on energy, both energy conversion and storage, with particular emphasis on batteries, fuel cells, and piezoelectrics, from nano/microstructure design to the cell, device and system design. His focus in the field of measurement is on new sensors, is interdisciplinary and linked to nanotechnology, electrochemistry, thermal science, and material science. His research is based on both modeling and experiment; the selected research topics are, recycling and regeneration of lithium-ion battery materials, optimization of electrodes nano/microstructure for lithium battery, ceramic solid-state lithium battery, and piezoelectric materials for sensor and energy harvester. Ram K. Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University, USA. His research interests include green energy production and storage using conducting polymers, 2D materials, nanostructured materials and composites, polymers from renewable resources for industrial applications, polymer recycling for sustainable future, bio-compatible nanofibers and thin films for tissue regeneration, scaffolds, bio-degradable metallic implants, and antibacterial applications. Ghulam Yasin is a researcher in the School of Environment and Civil Engineering at Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China. His expertise covers the design and development of hybrid devices and technologies of carbon nanostructures and advanced nanomaterials for for real-world impact in energy-related and other functional applications. Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.