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1. From Volta batteries to the first commercial battery technologies
At the dawn of the 19 th century, after several decades of empirical studies of galvanic phenomena, Alessandro Volta laid the first scientific foundations of electrochemistry by studying the generation of electricity at the terminals of a Voltaic cell consisting of two metal electrodes (zinc and copper) separated by a fabric impregnated with a saline solution. A few decades later, Michael Faraday heralded a first “electrochemical theory” resistant to the test of experimental facts, including, among other things, the law which bears his name, according to which the quantity of matter transformed during a reaction is proportional to the quantity of electricity which crossed the electrochemical cell. He gave us new terms: electrode, anode, cathode,...
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