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Emerging Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage

  • 1st Edition - August 9, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Kuan Yew Cheong, Giuliana Impellizzeri, Mariana Amorim Fraga
  • Language: English

Emerging Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage presents the state-of-art of emerging materials for energy conversion technologies (solar cells and fuel cells) and energy st… Read more

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Description

Emerging Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage presents the state-of-art of emerging materials for energy conversion technologies (solar cells and fuel cells) and energy storage technologies (batteries, supercapacitors and hydrogen storage). The book is organized into five primary sections, each with three chapters authored by worldwide experts in the fields of materials science, physics, chemistry and engineering. It covers the fundamentals, functionalities, challenges and prospects of different classes of emerging materials, such as wide bandgap semiconductors, oxides, carbon-based nanostructures, advanced ceramics, chalcogenide nanostructures, and flexible organic electronics nanomaterials.

The book is an important reference for students and researchers (from academics, but also industry) interested in understanding the properties of emerging materials.

Key features

  • Explores the fundamentals, challenges and prospects for the application of emerging materials in the development of energy conversion and storage devices
  • Presents a discussion of solar cell and photovoltaic, fuel cell, battery electrode, supercapacitor and hydrogen storage applications
  • Includes notable examples of energy devices based on emerging materials to illustrate recent advances in this field

Readership

Researchers, engineers, academics, physicists, chemists, and lecturers working in the fields of materials science and energy

Table of contents

Part 1: Emerging materials for dye-sensitized solar cells and thermoelectrics

1. SnTe: Structure, Synthesis and Thermoelectric properties
Jin Zou

2. Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as Electron Transport Layer in Third Generation Solar Cells
Savas Sonmezoglu

Part 2: Emerging materials for electrochemical applications

3. Exploring the properties and fuel cell applications of atomic layer deposited metal oxide ultrathin films
Mariana Fraga

4. Development, Challenges and Prospects of Carbon-Based Electrode for Lithium Air Batteries
Takahiro Ishizaki

Part 3: Emerging materials for supercapacitors

5. Emerging 2D nanomaterials for supercapacitor applications
Xinheng Li

6. Prospective Synthesis Approaches to Emerging Materials for Supercapacitor
S. J. Park

7. Advances in Flexible supercapacitors for portable and wearable smart gadgets
Deepak Dubal

8. Simple Parallel-Plate Capacitors to High–Energy Density Future Supercapacitors: A Materials Review
Tara P. Dhakal

Part 4: Emerging materials for multifunctional applications in energy conversion and storage

9. Advanced nanocarbon materials for future energy application
Siglinda Perathoner

Part 5: Emerging materials for hydrogen storage

10. All-metal and Non-metal Aromatic Clusters as Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide Storage Materials
Pratim K. Chattaraj

11. Liquid Phase Chemical Hydrogen Storage: From Recent Developments to Future Objectives
Mehmet Zahmakiran

12. Recent progresses on the Mg-Co-H and Mg-Fe-H systems for hydrogen storage applications
Fabiana Cristina Gennari

13. A systematic approach to the synthesis, thermal stability and hydrogen storage properties of rare earth borohydrides
Fabiana Cristina Gennari

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 9, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editors

KC

Kuan Yew Cheong

Kuan Yew Cheong is a Professor in the School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He specializes in semiconductor materials, electronic packaging, nanomaterials, and surface engineering, recognized as a top 2% researcher in applied physics/materials (2023). He has contributed to research on bio-organic-based memory to address e-waste.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia

GI

Giuliana Impellizzeri

Giuliana Impellizzeri earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Catania in 2004. She has served as Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) since 2023 and has worked at CNR's Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM) since 2004. She leads a research group working on advanced nanomaterials for wastewater treatment. She has experience in atomic layer deposition (ALD), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), ion implantation, and photocatalytic, structural and electrical properties of semiconductor-based materials. Her research activity is mainly focused on nanostructured photocatalytic semiconductors (e.g. TiO2 and ZnO) for application s in water treatment. She is also expert in micro and nanoelectronics, in particular in electrical activation ad diffusion of dopants in crystalline silicon and germanium.

Affiliations and expertise
Research Director (IMM), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, Italy

MF

Mariana Amorim Fraga

Prof. Mariana Amorim Fraga is a Professor at the Electrical Engineering Program, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil. Leader of the Photovoltaic Sensors and Devices research group. She was a Visiting Professor at the Biomedical Engineering Program, Federal University of São

Paulo (UNIFESP, Brazil). She obtained her MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil) and her PhD in Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA, Brazil). Her research interests are in the materials science and engineering areas, mainly on the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for the development of sensors, electronic devices and energy technologies.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Electrical Engineering Program, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil

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