Literature Review - purpose?

Read/Understand your design problem

Find evidence to support your design
Prevent reinventing the wheel
Demonstrate your academic skills
Academic Integrity (citing; no plagiarizing etc.)
Effective literature searching
Critically review, summarize, synthesize sources
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Test Your Critical Appraisal Skills

What kind of information will you likely get from each reference
about lithium batteries?
Anon. (2006) Technologies boost battery life
[online]. Design News 61 (5): 58.
Tarascon, J.-M., and Armand, M. (2001). Issues and challenges
facing rechargeable lithium batteries. Nature 414: 359-367.

Song, J. Y., Wang, Y. Y., Wan, C. C. (1999). Review of gel-type

polymer electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries. [online] Journal
of Power Sources 77(2): 183- 197
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Its a book, not a

journal article. Each
chapter is like a
review article -

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Excellent starting
point like a short
Review article.
Invited by the editor
- not peer reviewed.

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Use Google Scholar instead of Google. This is a

personal publication list. Dont use the URL for
this page for any of these articles.

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Some citation styles want the

full title, others want the
abbreviated title.

Digital Object Identifier unique

number for journal article. Used
instead of URL.
If you cant find DOI, use the URL for
the main page of the journal.

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What Questions do You have about

using databases,
finding information,
search strategies.

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482 F10

Best Sources are in ChemEng Subject Guide

http://library/discipline/chemeng/
Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (Kirk-Othmer)
[chemicals, industrial processes, ChemEng fundamentals]

Knovel, Referex, [e-book collections handbooks, data search]

See Data search video
Engineering Village [journal articles, conference papers]

freepatentsonline [US patents]

Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar [citation search]

SciFinder [chemistry, reactions etc]

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Found 1998 review article Need a more recent one.

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Cited Reference Searching

Koch, 1998

Koch, 1998

Adapted from Univ. of Western Ontario Library

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Design Data and Costs Information

website: William R. Wilcox, Professor, ChemEng, Clarkson University

Data, Information [ = databases, journals]

http://people.clarkson.edu/~wwilcox/Design/refs.htm
Costs
http://people.clarkson.edu/~wwilcox/Design/refcosts.htm

If you cant access a link, contact me and well look

for an alternative source
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Order the Articles We Dont Have

note: login with WATCARD barcode #

1.

PRIMO
Search journal name: [Canadian Journal of Engineering]

print off e-copy or photocopy paper copy

If its at Guelph, WLU or Annex

(1 day)

2.

RACER (Inter Library Loan)

(5 10 days)

To order anything not in TUG

Use the ILL link in the Get It @ Waterloo page. Less stuff to fill in.
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Manage References in a web Database

Refworks

Online database of your references

Set up free account group can share it
Annotate records; Write and Cite
Workshops see library homepage - June 3

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/index.html#refworks

via Engineering Village

Tag records for your group; search tags to retrieve records

Delicious social bookmarking database
Connotea free online database

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RefWorks Database
what a brief record looks like and includes

Article
attached

Folders
organize
citations

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Link to articles
online and
PRIMO

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Write N Cite Inserted references are formatted correctly

under Literature Cited.
* Plug-in needed.

Select the reference to insert in your paper. You can search for it or
browse folders. Bibliography will follow the style you choose

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Examples of Summarize and Synthesize

Kim J., Kim B., Lee J.-G., Cho J., Park B. (2005) Direct carbon-black coating on LiCoO2 cathode using
surfactant for high-density Li-ion cell. J. Power Sources v 139 (1-2): 289--294

Organic carbonate mixtures are commonly used as the solvents and lithium
hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6) as the salt for electrolyte, which has a high ionic
conductivity and a wide electrochemical stability window [7].

graphitic derivatives are attractive for the battery application because they
exhibit a high specific capacity, low working potential close to that of lithium
metal, and superior cycling behavior as the negative electrode.2,3,4 However,
the sodium intercalation into graphite slightly and scarcely occurred under
intense and moderate conditions, respectively,5,6 in spite of

Integrates or synthesizes info from 6 papers

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Citation Styles - for text and images

http://library/discipline/chemeng/citing.html

Choose one.
Be consistent.
Be complete.
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Search questions & database assistance

Contact: ChemEng Librarian

Anne Fullerton
affuller@uwaterloo.ca
or

Make an appointment
or

@ DC Information Desk
Tues & Fri 3 4pm
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Complete Citations are Essential

Ounadjela, K., Ferre, R., Louail, L. (1997)
Magnetization reversal in cobalt and nickel
electrodeposited nanowires, American Institute of
Physics, pp. 5455 5457.
Coffee (or alternative) for first 5 people
who email me the correct and complete
citation for this reference.

How to Cite References? see ChemEng Subject Guide

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Design a laptop battery which holds a

charge longer than 2 months.
What I know
Li batteries light weight
Degrade with charge/discharge cycles
Research on many anodes, cathodes, electrolytes shows
different effects on charge holding
What I dont know
How Li batteries are made. Specific materials.
Journal article? Database?
Best cathodes ?.
Standard techniques to study battery chemistry?
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Finding Knowledge Gaps- before you search

1. What do we KNOW about our design project?
2. What do we NEED to know?

3. How can we close the gap between 1 and 2?

Need: diagram of process search a book? or encyclopedia?
alternative terms for plastic batteries ?
compound with melting point less than .?
testing method for.?
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