New Promising Electrochemical Systems for Rechargeable Batteries

1. Improvements of Conventional Aqueous Accumulators.- 1.1 Materials for Bipolar Lead-Acid Batteries.- 1.2 Rechargeable Electrochemical Cell Studies at ESTCO.- 2. Rechargeable Lithium Batteries.- 2.1 Intercalation Materials for Lithium Rechargeable Batteries.- 2.2 Investigation of Graphite-Lithium Intercalation Anodes for Li-Ion Rechargeable Batteries.- 2.3 Reversible Li Intercalation into Carbonaceous Materials.- 2.4 Carbon Fluoride Cathode for Lithium Cells.- 2.5 Low-Melting Salts and Glasses as Lithium Battery Electrolytes.- 2.6. Dimercaptan-Polyaniline/Lithium Rechargeable Batteries with High Energy Density.- 2.7 Rechargeable Lithium Battery with Inorganic Electrolyte.- 3. Rechargeable Metall/Air-Batteries.- 3.1 3-D Zinc/Air Bipolar Rechargeable Battery.- 3.2 The Electric Fuel™ Zinc-Air Mechanically Rechargeable Battery System for Electric Vehicles.- 3.3 Applications of Bifunctional Air Electrodes.- 3.4 Advanced Half-Gas Systems for Rechargeable Batteries.- 3.5 Electrochemistry with Metal/Solid Polymer Electrolyte Membranes: Aspects of the O2 Reduction and H2 Oxidation.- 3.6 Oxide Electrocatalysts. The Case of RuO2-based Film Electrodes.- 4. Fuel Cells As Rechargeable Batteries.- 4.1 Fuel Cells as Rechargeable Batteries.- 4.2 Fuel Cell Systems for Vehicle Applications.- 5. Metal Hydride (MH)/Nickel Rechargeable Batteries.- 5.1 Chinese Advanced and Cheap Rechargeable Battery.- 5.2 Studies on Foamed Hydrogen Absorbing Electrodes.- 5.3 Application of the Hydrogen Absorbing Alloys to Ni-MH Type Accumulators.- 5.4 Electrochemical Properties of the Hydrogen Absorbing AB2 Type Alloys for Nickel-Metal Hydride Secondary Batteries.- 5.5 Electrochemical Investigation of Hydrogen Evolution and Absorption Phenomena in Nickel Based Electrodes.- 6. Conducting Polymers inRechargeable Batteries.- 6.1 Polyaniline as an Active Material for Rechargeable Batteries (Ext. Abstract).- 6.2 Conjugated Polymers as Active Materials for Rechargeable Batteries.- 6.3 Secondary Power Sources on the Basis of Conductive Polymeric Materials (Ext. Abstract).- 6.4 Fast Charge-Discharge Kinetics in Intrinsically Conducting Polymers - Intercalation and Film Relaxation.- 6.5 Charging-Discharging Process of Polypyrrole Films in Solutions of Tetraphenylborate Anions.- 7. Carbon and Carbonaceous Materials.- 7.1 Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries.- 7.2 Novel Type of Storage Cells Based on Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitors.- 7.3 Precompacted Carbon Black (C.B.) — Electrodes in Aqueous Sulphuric Acid: Galvanostatic Charge and Discharge of the Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitor (ECDLC) in Single Electrodes.- 8. Metal-Free Rechargeable Batteries.- 8.1. Design and Materials for Metal-Free Rechargeable Batteries.- 8.2 On the Perspectives of Application of Monomer and Conductive Polymer Materials for Developing Metal-Free and Semi-Metal Rechargeable Batteries.- 8.3 Optimization of Cyclic Behaviour of the Metal-Free GIC/H2F2/AQ Rechargeable Battery.- 8.4 Metal-Free Graphite/HBF4/Anthraquinone Rechargeable Batteries.- 8.5 Study of Anthraquinone and Graphite Electrode Behaviour in Mixed Solvent Sulphuric Acid.- 9. Miscellaneous, Reviews.- 9.1 Advanced Rechargeable Batteries for Different Widespread Applications.- 9.2 Simulation and Optimal Design of Secondary Batteries.- 9.3 Novel Low- and Medium- Temperature Sulfur-Alkali Metal Batteries Based on Charge Transfer Complexes (CTC) (Ext. Abstract).- 9.4 Different Electrochemical Ways to Store and Generate Electrical Energy (Ext. Abstract).- Author Index.