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The one-stop reference source for all questions about solid-state electrochemistry. This important and rapidly developing scientific field integrates many aspects of the solid-state chemistry, solid-state physics, materials science and catalysis related to electrochemical processes. Its key applications include batteries, fuel cells, electrochemical pumps and compressors, gas separation membranes, solid-state electrolyzers, electrocatalytic reactors, super-capacitors, electrochromic and memory devices, various sensors, corrosion protection, and synthesis of new materials with improved properties.
The only comprehensive handbook on this important and rapidly developing topic combines fundamental information with a brief overview of recent advances in the field. Particular attention is focused on the most important developments performed during the last decade, methodological and theoretical aspects of solid-state electrochemistry, as well as practical applications. The highly experienced editor has included chapters with critical reviews of theoretical approaches, experimental methods and modeling techniques, providing definitions and explaining the relevant terminology as necessary. Several other chapters cover all the key groups of the ion-conducting solids important for practice, namely cationic, protonic, oxygen-anionic and mixed conductors, but also conducting polymer and hybrid materials.
Due to the very interdisciplinary nature of the topic, this ready reference is of great interest to material scientists, polymer chemists, physicists, and industrial scientists, too.
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 230 scientific papers in international SCI journals, including 7 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 Condensed Matter Physics Journal, and Processing and Application of Ceramics. In 2004, he received the Portuguese Science Foundation prize for Scientific Excellence.
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