"This advanced textbook provides an introduction to chemical bonding, phonons, and thermodynamics of solids, point defect formation and reaction, kinetics of solid state processes, electrochemical techniques and applications. It covers the fundamentals necessary for an understanding of electrochemical devices such as sensors, batteries and fuel cells. The new edition has been revised throughout, with significant expansion of the content on electrochemical applications. The section on solid state electrochemistry has been completely rewritten and expanded to form two new chapters on measurement techniques and energy applications, reflecting significant developments in battery materials and photoelectrochemical cells, and the book concludes with a new chapter on nanoionics. The text is intended for chemists, physicists and materials scientists and is aimed at enabling the reader not only to gain a profound comprehension of physicochemical processes in solids, but also to appropriately condition solids with regard to their electrochemical properties"--