Electrochemically enabled sustainability : devices, materials, and mechanisms for energy conversion / Kwong-Yu Chan and Chi-Ying Vanessa Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chan, Kwong-Yu (Chemical engineer), author.

Li, Chi-Ying Vanessa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electric batteries.

Direct energy conversion--Materials.

Direct energy conversion.

Electrochemistry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide; Chapter 2: Microbial Fuel Cells and Other Bio-Electrochemical Conversion Devices; Chapter 3: Lithium Batteries: Status and Future; Chapter 4: Hollow Mesoporous Carbon with Hierarchical Nanoarchitecture in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion; Chapter 5: Layer-Structured Cathode Materials for Energy Storage; Chapter 6: First-Principles Approach for Cathode Design and Characterisation; Chapter 7: Advanced Batteries and Improvements in Electrode Materials

Chapter 8: Lead-Carbon Hybrid Ultracapacitors and Their ApplicationsChapter 9: Vanadium Flow Batteries: From Materials to Large-Scale Prototypes; Chapter 10: Physical Properties of Negative Half-Cell Electrolytes in the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery; Chapter 11: pH Differential Power Sources with Electrochemical Neutralisation; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-04-005523-0

0-429-07210-4

1-4665-7543-3

9780429072109

OCLC:

882258306