CONTRIBUTORS vii PREFACE ix CHAPTER 1 ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS: BASICS 1 Hubert Gasteiger, Katharina Krischer, and Bruno Scrosati CHAPTER 2 LITHIUM BATTERIES: FROM EARLY STAGES TO THE FUTURE 21 Bruno Scrosati CHAPTER 3 ADDITIVES IN ORGANIC ELECTROLYTES FOR LITHIUM BATTERIES 39 Susanne Wilken, Patrik Johansson, and Per Jacobsson CHAPTER 4 ELECTROLYTES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES WITH HIGH-VOLTAGE CATHODES 71 Mengqing Xu, Swapnil Dalavi, and Brett L. Lucht CHAPTER 5 CORE SHELL STRUCTURE CATHODE MATERIALS FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERIES 89 Seung-Taek Myung, Amine Khalil, and Yang-Kook Sun CHAPTER 6 PROBLEMS AND EXPECTANCY IN LITHIUM BATTERY TECHNOLOGIES 107 K. Kanamura CHAPTER 7 FLUORINE-BASED POLYANIONIC COMPOUNDS FOR HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRODE MATERIALS 127 P. Barpanda and J.-M. Tarascon CHAPTER 8 LITHIUM AIR AND OTHER BATTERIES BEYOND LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES 161 K. M. Abraham CHAPTER 9 AQUEOUS LITHIUM AIR SYSTEMS 191 Owen Crowther and Mark Salomon CHAPTER 10 POLYMER ELECTROLYTES FOR LITHIUM AIR BATTERIES 217 Nobuyuki Imanishi and Osamu Yamamoto CHAPTER 11 KINETICS OF THE OXYGEN ELECTRODE IN LITHIUM AIR CELLS 233 Michele Piana, Nikolaos Tsiouvaras, and Juan Herranz CHAPTER 12 LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES AND SUPERCAPACITORS FOR USE IN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES 265 Catia Arbizzani, Libero Damen, Mariachiara Lazzari, Francesca Soavi, and Marina Mastragostino CHAPTER 13 Li4Ti5O12 FOR HIGH-POWER, LONG-LIFE, AND SAFE LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES 277 Zonghai Chen, I. Belharouak, Yang-Kook Sun, and Khalil Amine CHAPTER 14 SAFE LITHIIUM RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES BASED ON IONIC LIQUIDS 291 A. Guerfi, A. Vijh, and K. Zaghib CHAPTER 15 ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTIONS FOR RECHARGEABLE MAGNESIUM BATTERIES 327 Y. Gofer, N. Pour, and D. Aurbach CHAPTER 16 RECHARGEABLE SODIUM AND SODIUM-ION BATTERIES 349 K. M. Abraham INDEX 369