This is the second volume of the new series which continues the highly successful 'Advances in Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering'. The series covers advanced topics in the area of fundamental and applied electrochemistry and engineering. Authors are selected with great care and usually represent the best talent available world-wide. The positive response by scientists worldwide to the new series is reflected in the following excerpts from reviews of the first volume: 'The editors must be congratulated on the first volume of this reborn series, which will be read with pleasure and profit by many.' Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 'This new book – and indeed the new series – can be recommended to all electrochemists in research and teaching as well as to all engineers and chemists in industry who are interested in recent developments in the field of electrochemistry.' Chemie – Ingenieur – Technik '… competently and clearly written.' Berichte der Bunsen-Gesellschaft fur Physikalische Chemie