Selected Battery Topics Proceedings of the Symposia on Aqueous Batteries ; Battery Applications ; Batteries for the 21st Century ; Corrosion in Batteries and Fuel Cells ; Exploratory Research and Development of Batteries & Supercapacitors for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles II

Contains papers from five separate symposia of the 194th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Boston, Massachusetts, in November 1998. Papers reflect recent findings in aqueous batteries, battery applications, batteries for the 21st century, corrosion in batteries and fuel cells, and exploratory research and development of batteries and supercapacitors for electric and hybrid vehicles. Specific topics include nickel hydroxide and manganese dioxide electrode materials and compositions in primary and rechargeable batteries, power source modeling and performance, novel high voltage cathode materials, microbatteries, and lithium polymer electrolyte batteries. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR