Electrochemically enabled sustainability devices, materials, and mechanisms for energy conversion

"With contributions from leading researchers in their fields, this book provides an overview of the most important electrochemical power sources in development today. Focusing on materials, design, and performance, the text presents the most recent and innovative technologies employed in batter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chan, Kwong-Yu, Li, Chi-Ying Vanessa (Author)
Other Authors: Banerjee, Anjan (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Florida CRC Press 2014
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:"With contributions from leading researchers in their fields, this book provides an overview of the most important electrochemical power sources in development today. Focusing on materials, design, and performance, the text presents the most recent and innovative technologies employed in battery and fuel cell technology. Topics include acid/alkaline batteries, microbial fuel cells, Li-Air, Li-Sulphur, flow batteries, lithium ion batteries, lead acid batteries, supercapacitors, photoelectrochemistry, and carbon dioxide electroreduction. The book discusses the advantages of these fuel cells over conventional power sources and their future applications"--
Physical Description:499 pages illustrations (some color), graphs, tables
ISBN:1466575441
9781466575448