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-statechemistry 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 mixedionic–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 technologyComposite solid electrolytesAdvances in the theoretical description of solid-electrolyte solution interfacesDynamical instabilities in electrochemical processesFuel cells: Advances and challengesElectrodes for high-temperature electrochemical cellsAdvances in fabrication, characterization, testing, and diagnosis of high-performance electrodes for PEM fuel cellsNanostructured electrodes for lithium ion batteriesMaterials science aspects relevant for high-temperature electrochemistryOxygen- and hydrogen-permeable dense ceramic membranesInterfacial phenomena in mixed conducting membranes