Graphene: A New Paradigm in Condensed Matter and Device Physics
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of the same mathematical approaches are used in the chapter on system response. The chapter on battery systems models attempts to give fair balance to the several approaches, making clear that there are numerous ways to model the batteries and that estimation methods are still necessary. The last chapter is dedicated to battery management systems, with a top-level description of how one would build electronics around a battery for a car. Each chapter ends with questions and answers for readers to check their understanding of the book material. By the end of the book, I had a hearty respect for the mathematical and modeling abilities of Rahn and Wang, but I did not have a solid feeling about how to use their methods in a simple hybrid system. For a practical prototype, much simpler models can be developed based on experimental polarization curves incorporated into relatively straightforward mathematical models. I also did not have a sense of how to use the modeling in the event
Graphene: A New Paradigm in Condensed Matter and Device Physics E.L. Wolf Oxford University Press, 2014 320 pages, $110.00 ISBN 978-0-19-964586-2
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raphene has attracted significant attention in the scientific community in recent years because of its exceptional physical properties. The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.” There has been an explosion in research and corresponding rapid increase in scientific publications in this area in the last decade. Given the diversity and multitude of publication sources and content, there is a need for books that will distill this information and present it in a cogent form useful for researchers. This book
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by Wolf serves this purpose admirably and is recommended for students and researchers who have a basic understanding of quantum mechanics and solid-state physics. The book discusses how the structure of graphene results in the exceptional physical properties from a fundamental physics perspective. The technical content of the book begins with the description of 2D electron behavior in systems such as liquid helium and semiconductor heterojunctions (chapter 2). In the third chapter, different forms of carbon and its molecular compounds are discussed from the perspective of quantum mechanics;
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that something went wrong with the battery—that is, it is unclear how to use the models to improve the longevity of the batteries or to make them safer. There is also no indication of how expensive the computational effort would be for running such detailed models. A more accurate title for the book might be Battery Modeling for Hybrid Electric Vehicles as there is little practical systems engineering in the book. The detailed battery models would be very useful to people studying controls, and the methodology would be relevant to other electrochemical systems. The questions at the end of each chapter make it
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