Electrochemical Systems

Newman (chemical engineering, University of California-Berkeley) and Thomas-Alyea, who received a Phd in chemical engineering from the University of California-Berkeley, have made this third edition of a review of fundamental concepts of electrochemical engineering more accessible for readers across disciplines. More examples taken from real engineering problems are included in this edition, and there is expanded material on numerical simulation methods, the thermoelectric cell, and the temperature dependence of the standard cell potential. Coverage encompasses thermodynamics of electrochemical cells, electrode kinetics and other interfacial phenomena, transport processes in electrolytic solutions, and current distribution and mass transfer in electrochemical systems. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

JOHN NEWMAN, PhD, has been a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1963. Known worldwide for his seminal papers in the mathematical analysis of electrochemical problems, both analytic and numerical, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of several awards from the Electrochemical Society. He is the former associate editor for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and current Director of the U. S. Department of Energy's Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies program.

KAREN E. THOMAS-ALYEA received her PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002. Her work has involved modeling of batteries and fuel cells.