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Lithium-ion batteries are an established technology with recent large-scale batteries finding emerging markets for electric vehicles and household energy storage. Battery research during the past two decades has focussed on practical improvements to available batteries, such as cell design to enhance energy density, which are currently nearing their maximum potential. We must now consider alternative avenues of research in pursuit of a new bre...

During the past three decades conducting polymers have been the subject of both fundamental and applied research due to the vast variety of possible applications. Displaying both semiconductor-like, and metallic-like properties, these novel smart materials can function as energy storage devices in battery technology, microelectronics, electrochromic display devices, and as chemical and electrochemical sensors. They also have the ability to mim...

A two-volume set providing a comprehensive overview of the applications of ionic liquids as smart materials.

An overview of the innovative uses of ionic liquids from sensors and actuators to biomedical applications.

Making nanomaterials and steering structure build-up on the nanoscale requires different tools than those for shaping a workpiece. Electricity and electric fields have proven their suitability and merit in nanomaterial synthesis and as structural guides during the formation of nanostructures at sizes where mechanical guidance becomes difficult. In addition, nanomaterials have added a new dimension to electrochemistry with previously unknown po...

Using classic thermodynamic principles as the point of departure, this book supplies the tools required to assess the technical viability of energy conversion processes. A new concept, viz. the exergetic (useful energy) recovery factor is introduced that measures net fraction of the extracted useful energy with respect to the initial exergy of the energy resource.  With respect to conventional measures, the exergetic recovery factor can be neg...