1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139379903321

Titolo

Lithium ion rechargeable batteries / / edited by Kazunori Ozawa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH, , 2009

℗2009

ISBN

3-527-62903-3

3-527-62902-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (634 p.)

Disciplina

621.31242

621.312424

Soggetti

Lithium cells

Storage batteries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Related title; Title; Copyright page; Preface; List of Contributors; 1: General Concepts; 1.1 Brief Outline of Batteries; 1.2 Early Development of Lithium-Ion Batteries; 1.3 Toward a Realistic Goal; References; 2: Lithium Insertion Materials Having Spinel-Framework Structure for Advanced Batteries; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Structural Description of Spinel; 2.3 Derivatives of Spinel-Framework Structure; 2.4 Electrochemistry of Lithium Insertion Materials Having Spinel-Framework Structure

4.4 3D Olivine-Type Phosphate Cathode4.5 3D Calcite-Type Borate Cathode; 4.6 3D Perovskite-Type Fluoride Cathode; 4.7 Summary; References; 5: Thermodynamics of Electrode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Experimental; 5.3 Results; 5.4 Conclusion; References; 6: Raman Investigation of Cathode Materials for Lithium Batteries; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Raman Microspectrometry: Principle and Instrumentation; 6.3 Transition Metal-Oxide-Based Compounds; 6.4 Phospho-Olivine LiMPO4 Compounds; 6.5 General Conclusion; References

7: Development of Lithium-Ion Batteries: From the Viewpoint of



Importance of the Electrolytes7.1 Introduction; 7.2 General Design to Find Additives for Improving the Performance of LIB; 7.3 A Series of Developing Processes to Find Novel Additives; 7.4 Cathodic and the Other Additives for LIBs; 7.5 Conditioning; References; 8: Inorganic Additives and Electrode Interface; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Transition Metal Ions and Cathode Dissolution; 8.3 How to Suppress the Mn(II) Degradation; 8.4 Alkali Metal Ions; 8.5 Alkali Salt Coating; 8.6 Summary; References

11: Research and Development Work on Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries for High-Performance Environmental Vehicles

Sommario/riassunto

Starting out with an introduction to the fundamentals of lithium ion batteries, this book begins by describing in detail the new materials for all four major uses as cathodes, anodes, separators, and electrolytes. It then goes on to address such critical issues as self-discharge and passivation effects, highlighting lithium ion diffusion and its profound effect on a battery's power density, life cycle and safety issues. The monograph concludes with a detailed chapter on lithium ion battery use in hybrid electric vehicles.Invaluable reading for materials scientists, electrochemists, physici



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957331403321

Autore

King Casey (William Casey)

Titolo

Ambition, a history : from vice to virtue / / William Casey King

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013

ISBN

9780300189841

0300189842

9781283906425

1283906422

9780300182804

0300182805

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

973

Soggetti

Ambition - Political aspects - United States - History

Ambition - Social aspects - United States - History

National characteristics, American - History

Christianity and culture - United States - History

Social values - United States - History

Social change - United States - History

Ambition - Social aspects - England - History

Christianity and culture - England - History

United States Civilization To 1783

England Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From Vice to Christian Sin -- Ambition as Sin in Early Modern English Culture : Perilous Acts of Self-Elevation, Subversive Acts of Self-Negation -- The Plague and Countervailing Passions -- Harnessing Ambition in the Age of Exploration -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

From rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. Americans are driven by ambition. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous vice, everything from "a canker on the soul"



to the impetus for original sin. This engaging book explores ambition's surprising transformation, tracing attitudes from classical antiquity to early modern Europe to the New World and America's founding. From this broad historical perspective, William Casey King deepens our understanding of the American mythos and offers a striking reinterpretation of the introduction to the Declaration of Independence.Through an innovative array of sources and authors-Aquinas, Dante, Machiavelli, the Geneva Bible, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, and many others-King demonstrates that a transformed view of ambition became possible the moment Europe realized that Columbus had discovered not a new route but a new world. In addition the author argues that reconstituting ambition as a virtue was a necessary precondition of the American republic. The book suggests that even in the twenty-first century, ambition has never fully lost its ties to vice and continues to exhibit a dual nature, positive or negative depending upon the ends, the means, and the individual involved.