This book provides a comprehensive exploration of advanced privacy-preserving methods, ensuring secure data processing across various domains. This book also delves into key technologies such as homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation, and differential privacy, discussing their theoretical foundations, implementation challenges, and real-world applications in cloud computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and healthcare. With the rapid growth of digital technologies, d...

The energy demands of contemporary society mandate the urgent development and commercialisation of a ‘post-Li-ion battery’. Metal anodes are an important piece of this puzzle. This research and reference text discusses the role of metal electrodes in batteries in detail. Introducing the fundamental theoretical properties of metal anodes, the book surveys the history and prospects of the field, covering a wide range of metals, including Li, Na, K, Mg, Al, Zn, Ge, Sn, Sb and Bi. The first bo...