Methodological aspects of electrochemical science and technology: a selection of reviews

Abstract

Solid-state electrochemistry is a rapidly developing scientific field that integrates many aspects of the classical electrochemical science and engineering, solid-state chemistry and physics, materials science, heterogeneous catalysis, and other areas of physical chemistry. This field comprises, but is not limited to, electrochemistry of solid materials, thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemical reactions involving at least one solid phase, transport of ions and electrons in solids and interactions between solid, liquid, and/or gaseous phases whenever these processes are essentially determined by properties of solids and are relevant to the electrochemical reactions, and a variety of practical applications using solid electrolytes, mixed ionic– electronic conductors, and solid-state electrochemical reactions. The range of these applications includes many types of batteries, fuel cells, capacitors and accumulators, numerous sensors and analytical appliances, electrochemical gas pumps and compressors, electrochromic and memory devices, ceramic membranes with ionic or mixed ionic–electronic conductivity, solid-state electrolyzers and electrocatalytic reactors, synthesis of new materials with improved properties, and corrosion protection. The first fundamental discoveries considered now as the foundation of solid-state electrochemistry were made in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries by M. Faraday, E.