Solid State Electrochemistry Ii: Electrodes, Interfaces And Ceramic Membranes

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Monograph, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Germany, 2011. — 568 p.Aiming to combine the fundamental information and brief overview on recent advances in solid-state electrochemistry, this handbook primarily focuses on the most important methodological, theoretical, and technological aspects, novel materials for solid-state electrochemical devices, factors determining their performance and reliability, and their practical applications. Main priority has been given, therefore, to the information that may be of interest to researchers, engineers, and other specialists working in this and closely related scientific areas. At the same time, numerous definitions, basic equations and schemes, and reference data are also included in many chapters to provide necessary introductory information for newcomers to this intriguing field. In general, solid-state electrochemistry is an important, interdisciplinary, and rapidly developing science that 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. This field comprises, but is not limited to, electrochemistry of solid materials, thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemical reactions involving at least one solid phase, transport of ions and electrons in solids, and interactions between solid, liquid, and/or gaseous phases whenever these processes are essentially determined by properties of solids and are relevant to the electrochemical reactions. The range of applications includes many types of batteries, fuel cells, and sensors, solid-state electrolyzers and electrocatalytic reactors, ceramic membranes with ionic or mixed ionic–electronic conductivity, accumulators and supercapacitors, electrochromic and memory devices, processing of new materials with improved properties, corrosion protection, electrochemical pumps and compressors, and a variety of other appliances.CONTENTS: Ionic memory technology Composite solid electrolytes Advances in the theoretical description of solid-electrolyte solution interfaces Dynamical instabilities in electrochemical processes Fuel cells: Advances and challenges Electrodes for high-temperature electrochemical cells Advances in fabrication, characterization, testing, and diagnosis of high-performance electrodes for PEM fuel cells Nanostructured electrodes for lithium ion batteries Materials science aspects relevant for high-temperature electrochemistry Oxygen- and hydrogen-permeable dense ceramic membranes Interfacial phenomena in mixed conducting membranes

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