Dr Sandeep A. Arote is an Associate Professor of Physics at the Sangamner Nagarpalika Arts, D.J. Malpani Commerce and B. N. Sarda Science College (Autonomous), Sangamner, affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly University of Pune), MS, India. He has 15 years’ teaching and 10 years’ research experience. He has published over 35 research articles in reputed peer-reviewed international journals and also presented his research work at several national and international conferences. His main research areas include: nanostructured materials for energy generation, storage devices (nanostructured solar cells, supercapacitors, and batteries), and sensors. He has co-authored several textbooks for undergraduate physics courses, such as Handbook of Physics, Practical Course in Physics, Solid State Physics, Nuclear Physics, and a booklet on graph plotting techniques. Furthermore, he is a reviewer for several reputed peer-reviewed international journals.
This four-chaptered book is on electro-chemistry fundamentals of electrochemical energy storage devices, with a strong focus on supercapacitors. Chapter 1 is an excellent overview on electrochemical energy storage mechanisms and performance assessments. Chapter 2 is a very concise, but a very informative, chapter on different types of supercapacitors and their working principles and classification. Chapter 3, based on 144 references, is an overview of carbon-based materials for supercapacitors Finally, Chapter 4, based on 226 references, provide an overview of electrode materials for pseudo and hybrid supercapacitors. This book is a very comprehensive discussion on electro-chemistry aspects of various types of supercapacitors based on an extensive collection of references. The author has done an excellent job of providing the research directions of supercapacitors. As an applications engineer working on supercapacitors, I enjoyed reading it. Nihal Kularatna, IEEE Magazine, July/August 2023