Electrochemical Power Sources: Batteries, Fuel Cells, and Supercapacitors (The ECS Series of Texts and Monographs)

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 dioxide batteries, mercury-zinc cells, lead-acid batteries, cadmium storage batteries, silver-zinc batteries and modern lithium batteries Electrochemical Power Sources (EPS) provides in a concise way theoperational features, major types, and applications of batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors Details the design, operational features, andapplications of batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors Covers improvements of existing EPSs and thedevelopment of new kinds of EPS as the results of intense R & Dwork Provides outlook for future trends in fuel cells andbatteries Covers the most typical battery types, fuel cells andsupercapacitors; such as zinc-carbon batteries, alkaline manganesedioxide batteries, mercury-zinc cells, lead This book provides a concise description of the three main classes of electrochemical power sources: batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors. It covers all aspects of the design, operational features, applications, and performance of electrochemical power sources from the most typical battery types, fuel cells, and supercapacitors. Other topics include: improvements of existing electrochemical power sources and the development of new kinds of EPS as the results of intense R & D work; outlook for future trends in fuel cells and batteries. -- Edited summary from book Providing a concise description of the three main classes of electrochemical power sources, batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors, Electrochemical Power Sources reviews the design, operational features, and applications of all three of these power sources.