**Meet the editor**

Dr Yan Shao's academic background covers Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science & Engineering. Currently, Dr Shao holds a PhD degree (2001) in Materials Science & Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and BS (1998) and MS degrees (2001) in Chemistry, both from Tsinghua University. He also has postdoctoral research experience with Nobel

laureate professor Alan J. Heeger in University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Besides technical experience in material preparation, characterization, identification, and various electrical and electrochemical measurement methods, Dr Shao also has extensive project management experiences for developing new materials and material systems in both academic and industrial environment. He has already published 20 peer-reviewed journal papers, 8 Invention Patents, 1 book chapter with 1 editor highlight on Science, and multiple presentations in conferences.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 New Advances in Fundamental** 

Katarína Gmucová

Abdel Hafid Essadki

**Part 2 Recent Developments** 

Chapter 5 **Cold Plasma – A Promising Tool** 

Jacek Tyczkowski

Chapter 1 **A Review of Non-Cottrellian Diffusion** 

**Research in Electrochemical Cells 1** 

Chapter 2 **Modeling and Quantification of Electrochemical** 

Lucía Fernández Macía, Heidi Van Parys,

Chapter 4 **Electrochemical Cells with the Liquid Electrolyte in** 

Valery Vassiliev and Weiping Gong

Chapter 6 **Fuel Cell: A Review and a New Approach** 

Chapter 3 **Electrochemical Probe for Frictional Force** 

Tom Breugelmans, Els Tourwé and Annick Hubin

**and Bubble Measurements in Gas-Liquid-Solid Contactors and Innovative Electrochemical** 

**for Applications of Electrochemical Cells 103** 

**About YSZ Solid Oxide Electrolyte Deposition** 

Tiago Falcade and Célia de Fraga Malfatti

**for the Development of Electrochemical Cells 105** 

**Direct on LSM Porous Substrate by Spray Pyrolysis 139** 

**Reactors for Electrocoagulation/Electroflotation 45** 

**the Study of Semiconductor, Metallic and Oxide Systems 71** 

**Towards Micro- and Nano-Structured Electrodes 3** 

**Reactions in RDE (Rotating Disk Electrode) and IRDE (Inverted Rotating Disk Electrode) Based Reactors 21** 
