This book contains six chapters that that highlight progress towards the capture, storage, and utilization of energy through the development of advanced materials and systems based on on abundant elements, materials and commodities. Energy is critical to human sustainability and a global-scale deployment of renewable energy systems will be required.  Hence, the chapters integrate the detailed, fundamental aspects that enable the technical advancements along with an emphasis on the necessity for highly sustainable materials to enable real impact for the benefit of mankind. To determine innovation of energy capture and storage through characterizations of materials in areas of electrical generation and electrical storage systems; To demonstrate better performance, economic and environmental advantages than the current state of the art; To define new chemistries and materials for innovations in energy density design through loweroperational temperatures, improve safety,expanding operational voltage, batterydurability lifetimes, and reduce system costs.The Editors would like to thank our author teams who contributed chapters and helped develop this book with us, our colleagues who helped us with the extensive blinded peer review process,the editorial team in NYC and SpringerNature publishing and Sandia National Laboratories, under the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration for agreement to publish this book. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity, and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-mission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525. The views expressed in this book do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Energy or the United States Government. weiterlesen