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Battery Technology Crash Course A Concise Introduction

Battery Technology Crash Course

Slobodan Petrovic

Battery Technology Crash Course A Concise Introduction

Slobodan Petrovic Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy Oregon Institute of Technology Happy Valley, OR, USA

ISBN 978-3-030-57268-6 ISBN 978-3-030-57269-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57269-3

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Preface

Batteries look simple on the outside. Most people look at a packaged battery and see a closed system that delivers energy on demand. The system does not communicate with its environment except electrically. It delivers electrical energy on demand, and for rechargeable batteries, it accepts electrical energy during charging. Not everyone asks themselves what is inside a battery or how a battery works. Yet there is a fascinating system inside a battery—workings of a complex organization with multifunctional components and reactions with the occasional mysterious outcomes. For researchers, those who develop and test batteries, they represent a challenge: a constant quest for improvement, for better material, for a favorable sequence of events during manufacturing, or for a new structure that might prove to advance one small part of the overall performance. By stretching the limits of chemistry, physics, material science, and most importantly, the overlapping boundaries between these fields, batteries have been changing for over 200 years, beginning with the invention of the voltaic pile, which