Polymer Electrolytes: Fundamentals and Applications

The development of high performance polymer electrolytes is key to improving a number of devices, such as batteries and fuel cells. This volume presents a comprehensive review of this increasingly important topic. It covers the characterization, mechanisms, and models of lithium, proton, polyvalent, and composite polymer electrolytes. The book discusses the structure, ion transport, and other relevant properties of polymer electrolytes. It also explores their applications in lithium batteries, fuel cells, electrochromic devices, solar cells, chemical sensors, supercapacitors, electronic sensors, and solid solvents, and as supporting media for electrochemical studies of electroactive species.