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Solid State Electrochemistry I: Fundamentals, Materials and their Applications

ISBN: 978-3-527-62787-5

July 2009

527 pages

Description
The one-stop reference source for fundamentals, advances and intriguing problems of solid-state electrochemistry. This important and rapidly developing scientifi c fi eld integrates many aspects of the classical electrochemical science and engineering, materials science, solid-state chemistry and physics, heterogeneous catalysis and other areas of physical chemistry. The range of practical applications includes many types of batteries, fuel cells, analytical appliances, electrochemical pumps and compressors, solid-state electrolyzers and electrocatalyticreactors, synthesis of new materials with improved properties and corrosion protection, supercapacitors, electrochromic and memory devices.
The first volume contains brief reviews dealing with the general methodology of solid state electrochemistry, the major groups of solid electrolytes, mixed ionic-electronic conductors, and selected applications of the electrochemical cells. Particular attention is focused on the nanostructured solids, superionics, polymer and hybrid materials, insertion electrodes, electroanalysis and electrochemical sensors. Due to the highly interdisciplinary nature of the topic, this ready reference is of great interest to industrial and academic researchers, engineers and postgraduate students specializing in all related areas of science and technology.
About the Author
Vladislav Kharton is a principal investigator at the Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering, University of Aveiro (Portugal). Having received his doctoral degree in physical chemistry from the Belarus State University in 1993, he has published over 260 scientifi c papers in international SCI journals, including 10 reviews, and coauthored over 40 papers in other refereed journals and volumes, 2 books and 2 patents. He is a topical editor of the Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, and member of the editorial boards of Materials Letters, The Open Electrochemistry Journal, The Open Condensed Matter Physics Journal, and Processing and Application of Ceramics. In 2004, he received the Portuguese Science Foundation prize for Scientific Excellence.