| Abbreviations, Symbols and Units Used in Text | p. xv |
| Glossary of Battery Terms | p. xix |
| Energy Storage in Batteries | p. 1 |
| Batteries--Their History and Development | p. 1 |
| Battery Applications and Markets | p. 5 |
| Know Your Battery | p. 9 |
| How a Battery Operates | p. 10 |
| Chemistry in Cells | p. 11 |
| Cell Discharge and Charge | p. 14 |
| How to Choose a Battery | p. 22 |
| Primary or Secondary? | p. 22 |
| Energy or Power? | p. 24 |
| Battery Temperature | p. 27 |
| Shelf-life | p. 29 |
| Energy Efficiency and Recharge Rate | p. 29 |
| Battery Life | p. 31 |
| How to Charge a Secondary Battery | p. 34 |
| Charging Regimes | p. 36 |
| Constant-current Charging | p. 36 |
| Constant-voltage Charging | p. 38 |
| Taper-current Charging | p. 38 |
| Constant-current--Constant-voltage Charging | p. 38 |
| Types of Charger (Domestic, Industrial) | p. 39 |
| Charging Industrial Traction Batteries: Opportunity Charging | p. 43 |
| Charging Electric Road Vehicle Batteries | p. 44 |
| Battery Monitoring and Management Systems | p. 47 |
| Primary Batteries | p. 52 |
| Zinc Primary Batteries | p. 53 |
| Zinc--Carbon Cells | p. 53 |
| Alkaline-manganese Cells | p. 59 |
| Button and Coin Cells | p. 64 |
| Zinc--Silver-oxide Cells | p. 65 |
| Zinc--Mercury-oxide Cells | p. 66 |
| Zinc--Air Cells | p. 67 |
| Lithium Primary Batteries | p. 70 |
| Lithium Cell Chemistry | p. 71 |
| Button and Coin Cells | p. 72 |
| Cylindrical and Prismatic Cells | p. 74 |
| Cells with Liquid Positive Electrodes | p. 79 |
| Specialized Primary Batteries | p. 82 |
| Batteries in Medicine | p. 82 |
| Sea-water Activated Batteries | p. 87 |
| Torpedo Batteries | p. 90 |
| Zinc--Silver-oxide Reserve Battery | p. 91 |
| Magnesium--Silver-chloride Reserve Battery | p. 92 |
| Thermal Batteries | p. 94 |
| Rechargeable Batteries | p. 97 |
| Lead--Acid Batteries | p. 100 |
| History of the Lead--Acid Battery | p. 100 |
| Mode of Operation | p. 102 |
| Automotive Batteries | p. 105 |
| Positive-plate Alloys | p. 105 |
| Plate Design and Manufacture | p. 107 |
| Electrode Composition and Pasting | p. 109 |
| Separators | p. 110 |
| Automotive Battery Performance | p. 110 |
| Leisure Batteries | p. 112 |
| Stationary Batteries/Uninterruptible Power Supplies | p. 113 |
| Tubular Traction Batteries | p. 117 |
| Valve-regulated Batteries | p. 120 |
| Markets | p. 125 |
| Alkaline Batteries | p. 126 |
| Rechargeable Alkaline-manganese Cells | p. 128 |
| Nickel Oxide Positive Electrodes | p. 130 |
| Nickel--Iron Batteries | p. 131 |
| Nickel--Cadmium Batteries | p. 133 |
| Industrial Batteries | p. 134 |
| Consumer Cells and Batteries | p. 135 |
| Nickel--Zinc Batteries | p. 137 |
| Nickel--Metal-hydride Batteries | p. 138 |
| Silver Oxide Batteries | p. 141 |
| Lithium Batteries | p. 143 |
| Introduction | p. 143 |
| Intercalation Electrodes and Lithium-metal Cells | p. 143 |
| Replating of Lithium | p. 145 |
| The Lithium-ion Battery | p. 147 |
| The Lithium--Polymer Battery | p. 153 |
| High-temperature Lithium Batteries | p. 158 |
| Advanced Rechargeable Batteries and Capacitors | p. 163 |
| Zinc--Air Batteries | p. 163 |
| Zinc--Bromine Batteries | p. 165 |
| Redox Batteries | p. 168 |
| Nickel--Hydrogen Batteries | p. 171 |
| Sodium--Sulfur Batteries | p. 172 |
| Sodium--Metal-chloride (ZEBRA) Batteries | p. 178 |
| Supercapacitors and Ultracapacitors | p. 183 |
| Some Applications for Secondary Batteries | p. 188 |
| Storage of Solar-generated Electricity | p. 188 |
| Batteries in Space | p. 193 |
| Storage in Electricity Supply Networks | p. 196 |
| Electric Vehicles | p. 202 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 214 |
| Recommended Reading | p. 216 |
| Subject Index | p. 220 |
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