Best Buy:Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries: Materials, Technology, and New Applications
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Lithium ion batteries-due to their long life-enjoy an established commercial market, and also command continuous research in a drive towards improvement and technology leadership. This hands-on guide describes in detail new materials for all four major components of lithium ion batteries: cathode, anode, separator, and electrolyte. The book also highlights lithium ion diffusion and its profound effect on a battery's power density, self-discharge behaviour, life cycle, and safety issues.
Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries: Materials, Technology, and New Applications Reviews
Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries: Materials, Technology, and New Applications Reviews
| 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:  Excellent Science, Poor Technology, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries: Materials, Technology, and New Applications (Hardcover) Lithium-ion batteries are now in widespread use and while research and development continues at a fast pace to further understand the underlying science and continually improve the technology, this book unfortunately only focuses on the research aspect.The list of contributors shows that 17 of the 20 individuals are from academia and this sets the tone for the entire book. The coverage of the underlying science of cathode materials is excellent, electrolytes less so and the anode coverage, limited to carbon materials and neglecting the emerging titanate compounds, is frankly quite poor. As for battery technology, the book fails miserably. When Benjamin Franklin coined the term "battery", he did so because the battery he saw for the first time to him resembled a "battery of cannon". It seems the editor of this book allows the term, as many do nowadays, to mean cell as well as battery. This is unfortunate, as the title of this book is thus misleading. You will not find any... Read more |
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