Foreword xi Preface xiii 1 Processes and Applications of Energy Conversion and Storage 1 2 Electrochemical Processes and Systems 21 2.1 Parasitic Reactions 30 2.2 Self-discharge 30 2.3 Device Deterioration 32 2.3.1 Aging 37 3 Thermodynamics of Electrochemical Systems 39 4 Kinetics of Electrochemical Energy Conversion Processes 55 4.1 Steps of Electrode Reactions and Overpotentials 56 4.2 Transport 56 4.

3 Charge Transfer 59 4.4 Overpotentials 59 4.5 Diffusion 62 4.6 Further Overpotentials 63 5 Electrodes and Electrolytes 71 5.1 Recycling 84 6 Experimental Methods 87 6.1 Battery Tester 87 6.2 Current-Potential Measurements 88 6.3 Charge/Discharge Measurements 92 6.

4 Battery Charging 100 6.5 Linear Scan and Cyclic Voltammetry 107 6.6 Impedance Measurements 111 6.7 Galvanostatic Intermittent Titration Technique (GITT) 117 6.8 Potentiostatic Intermittent Titration Technique (PITT) 119 6.9 Step Potential Electrochemical Spectroscopy (SPECS) 120 6.10 Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (EQCM) 121 6.11 Non-electrochemical Methods 121 6.

11.1 Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 121 6.11.2 Gas Adsorption Measurements 121 6.11.3 Microscopies 122 6.11.4 Thermal Measurements 122 6.

11.5 Modeling 123 7 Primary Systems 127 7.1 Aqueous Systems 129 7.1.1 Zinc-Carbon Battery 129 7.1.2 Alkaline Zn//MnO2 Battery 131 7.1.

3 Zn//HgO Battery 134 7.1.4 Zn//AgO Battery 136 7.1.5 Cd//AgO Batteries 138 7.1.6 Mg//MnO2 Batteries 140 7.2 Nonaqueous Systems 141 7.

2.1 Primary Lithium Batteries 141 7.2.2 Li//MnO2 144 7.2.3 Li//Bi2O3 145 7.2.4 Li//CuO 146 7.

2.5 Li//V2O5, Li//Ag2V4O11, and Li//CSVO 147 7.2.6 Li//CuS 148 7.2.7 Li//FeS2 149 7.2.8 Li//CFx Primary Battery 150 7.

2.9 Li//I2 151 7.2.10 Li//SO2 151 7.2.11 Li//SOCl2 153 7.2.12 Li//SO2Cl2 156 7.

2.13 Li//Oxyhalide Primary Battery 156 7.3 Metal-Air Systems 157 7.3.1 Aqueous Metal-Air Primary Batteries 157 7.3.2 Nonaqueous Metal-Air Batteries 168 7.4 Reserve Batteries 170 7.

4.1 Seawater-activated Batteries 171 7.4.2 High Power Activated Batteries 173 8 Secondary Systems 175 8.1 Aqueous Systems 176 8.1.1 Lead-Acid 176 8.1.

2 Lead Grid 181 8.1.3 Ni-based Secondary Batteries 189 8.1.4 Aqueous Rechargeable Lithium Batteries 202 8.1.5 Aqueous Rechargeable Sodium Batteries 206 8.2 Nonaqueous Systems 208 8.

2.1 Lithium-Ion Batteries 208 8.2.2 Rechargeable Li//S Batteries 230 8.2.3 Rechargeable Na//S Batteries 233 8.2.4 Rechargeable Li//Se Batteries 234 8.

2.5 Rechargeable Mg Batteries 235 8.3 Gel Polymer Electrolyte-based Secondary Batteries 235 8.3.1 Gel Lithium-Ion Batteries 236 8.3.2 Gel-Type Electrolytes for Sodium Batteries 238 8.4 Solid Electrolyte-based Secondary Batteries 238 8.

4.1 Solid Lithium-Ion Batteries 239 8.4.2 Rechargeable Solid Lithium Batteries 240 8.5 Rechargeable Metal-Air Batteries 240 8.5.1 Rechargeable Li//Air Batteries 242 8.5.

2 Rechargeable Na//Air Batteries 243 8.5.3 Rechargeable Zn//Air Batteries 245 8.6 High-Temperature Systems 246 8.6.1 Sodium-Sulfur Battery 247 8.6.2 Sodium-Nickel Chloride Battery 250 8.

6.3 All Liquid Metal Accumalator 254 9 Fuel Cells 257 9.1 The Oxygen Electrode 261 9.2 The Hydrogen Electrode 267 9.3 Common Features of Fuel Cells 268 9.4 Classification of Fuel Cells 272 9.4.1 Ambient Temperature Fuel Cells 272 9.

4.2 Alkaline Fuel Cells 273 9.4.3 Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) 274 9.4.4 Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells 281 9.4.5 Bioelectrochemical Fuel Cells 283 9.

4.6 Intermediate Temperature Fuel Cells 284 9.4.7 Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell (PAFC) 284 9.4.8 Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells (MCFC) 285 9.4.9 High Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) 286 9.

5 Applications of Fuel Cells 288 9.6 Fuel Cells in Energy Storage Systems 289 10 Flow Batteries 293 10.1 The Iron/Chromium System 298 10.2 The Iron/Vanadium System 299 10.3 The Iron/Cadmium System 299 10.4 The Bromine/Polysulfide System 300 10.5 The All-Vanadium System 300 10.6 The Vanadium/Bromine System 302 10.

7 Actinide RFBs 302 10.8 All-Organic RFBs 303 10.9 Nonaqueous RFBs 303 10.10 Hybrid Systems 303 10.11 The Zinc/Cerium System 304 10.12 The Zinc/Bromine System 304 10.13 The Zinc/Organic System 305 10.14 The Cadmium/Organic System 305 10.

15 The Lead/Lead Dioxide System 306 10.16 The Cadmium/Lead Dioxide System 307 10.17 The All-Copper System 307 10.18 The Zinc/Nickel System 307 10.19 The Lithium/LiFePO4 System 308 10.20 Vanadium Solid-Salt Battery 308 10.21 Vanadium-Dioxygen System 308 10.22 Electrochemical Flow Capacitor 310 10.

23 Current State and Perspectives 310 11 Supercapacitors 313 11.1 Classification of Supercapacitors 314 11.2 Electrical Double-Layer Capacitors 316 11.2.1 Electrolytes for EDLCs 317 11.2.2 Electrode Materials for EDLCs 318 11.2.

3 Electrochemical Performance of EDLCs 325 11.3 Pseudocapacitors 326 11.3.1 RuO2 327 11.3.2 MnO2 330 11.3.3 Intrinsically Conducting Polymers 335 11.

3.4 Redox Couples 343 11.3.5 Electrochemical Performance of Pseudocapacitors 346 11.4 Hybrid Capacitors 351 11.4.1 Negative Electrode Materials 351 11.4.

2 Positive Electrode Materials 359 11.4.3 Electrochemical Performance of Hybrid Capacitors 370 11.5 Testing of Supercapacitors 376 11.6 Commercially Available Supercapacitors 377 11.7 Application of Supercapacitors 378 11.7.1 Uninterruptible Power Sources 379 11.

7.2 Transportation 379 11.7.3 Smart Grids 380 11.7.4 Military Equipment 380 11.7.5 Other Civilian Applications 381 Appendix 383 Acronyms, Terms, and Definitions 387 Further Reading 401 Index 407.