Explains the current state of the science and points the way to technological advances

First developed in the late 1980s, lithium-ion batteries now power everything from tablet computers to power tools to electric cars. Despite tremendous progress in the last two decades in the engineering and manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries, they are currently unable to meet the energy and power demands of many new and emerging devices. This book sets the stage for the development of a new generation of higher-energy density, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries by advancing battery...

Electrochemical Power Sources (EPS) provides in a concise way the operational features, major types, and applications of batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors
- Details the design, operational features, and applications of batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors
- Covers improvements of existing EPSs and the development of new kinds of EPS as the results of intense R&D work
- Provides outlook for future trends in fuel cells and batteries
- Covers the most typical battery types, fuel cells and supercapacitors; such as zinc-carbon batteries, alkaline manganese...

Provides fundamentals needed to apply impedance spectroscopy to a broad range of applications with emphasis on obtaining physically meaningful insights from measurements.

• Emphasizes fundamentals applicable to a broad range of applications including corrosion, biomedical devices, semiconductors, batteries, fuel cells, coatings, analytical chemistry, electrocatalysis, materials, and sensors
• Provides illustrative examples throughout the text that show how the principles are applied to common impedance problems
• New Edition has improved pedagogy, with more than...