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    • Metal-ion Capacitors

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Debasish Sarkar
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Metal-ion capacitors based on monovalent and multivalent ions show great potential to replace existing battery materials in fields where both high energy and high power densities are simultaneously required. Metal-ion Capacitors: Fundamentals, Materials, Characterization, and Developments provides a comprehensive understanding of this cutting-edge energy storage technology, exploring the underlying principles, materials, and design considerations. The book offers practical guidance, including fabrication techniques, design strategies, and characterization methods, enabling readers to implement technological advancements effectively. It explores diverse applications of metal-ion capacitors across industries such as renewable energy, electric vehicles, and consumer electronics, fostering the development of more sustainable and efficient energy solutions. The book will empower researchers, engineers, and students alike with the expertise needed to develop and optimize metal-ion capacitor technology for various applications.

    • Next-Generation Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Anoop Kumar Shukla + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Next-Generation Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion covers the most recent advances in materials science and engineering in providing sustainable ways of converting and storing energy. It includes coverage of both electrical energy storage materials (such as batteries, supercapacitors, and metal hydrides) and thermal energy storage materials (such as phase-change materials). Advanced batteries, including lithium-ion batteries, electrochemical lithium batteries, and solid-state batteries, are critical for powering electric vehicles and managing renewable generation on the electricity grid. Fuel cells are effective in converting fuels into electricity and heat, making them useful for various applications, such as electric vehicles, household power generation, and electrical grid management. Hydrogen storage materials offer reversible hydrogen stores for a sustainable clean energy supply in future energy systems. However, we are yet to fully exploit the potential of these technologies and proposed devices. This book provides a crucial perspective on the potential of next-generation materials to provide sustainable ways of converting and storing energy.

    • Microsystems for Bioelectronics

      • 3rd Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Victor V. Zhirnov + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The advances in microsystems offer new opportunities and capabilities to develop systems for biomedical applications, such as diagnostics and therapy. In its third edition, Microsystems for Bioelectronics offers a comprehensive treatment of microsystems by thoroughly covering basic physics, chemistry, biology, materials, and engineering concepts, with an emphasis on the performance limits associated with the shrinking scale of microsystems. Microsystems for Bioelectronics: Scaling and Performance Limits considers physical principles and trends in extremely scaled autonomous microsystems such as integrated intelligent sensor systems, with a focus on energy minimization. It explores the implications of energy minimization on device and system architecture. It further details behavior of electronic components and its implications on system-level scaling and performance limits. In particular, fundamental scaling limits for energy sourcing, sensing, memory, computation and communication subsystems are developed and new applications such as optical, magnetic and mechanical sensors are presented. This fully revised and updated edition includes information on DRAM and 3D NAND semiconductor memories, betavoltaic energy conversion, advanced packaging, recent technology trends, and new technology roadmaps. The new edition of this well-proven book with its unique focus and interdisciplinary approach shows the complexities of the next generation of nanoelectronic microsystems in a clear and easy-to-understand manner, and is aimed for a broad audience within several disciplines.

    • Innovations in Nanocomposites for Advanced Energy Storage and Conversion

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2025
      • Raghvendra Kumar Mishra + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Innovations in Nanocomposites for Advanced Energy Storage and Conversion delves into the transformative role nanocomposites play in modern energy technologies. By blending foundational insights with contemporary advancements, this book provides researchers, students, academics, and professionals with the knowledge to harness nanocomposites for significant progress in energy storage and conversion. Addressing topics from basic principles to cutting-edge synthesis methods and applications, the book emphasizes nanocomposites' extraordinary potential in developing cleaner and more efficient energy solutions. The book offers a multifaceted exploration of nanocomposites, covering fundamental principles, advanced synthesis techniques, characterization methods, and various applications.Through both theoretical and practical examples, readers will understand how nanocomposites can revolutionize energy storage systems and contribute to sustainable energy advancements.

    • Sustainable Materials in Supercapacitors

      • 1st Edition
      • October 24, 2025
      • Ananthakumar Ramadoss + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Sustainable Materials in Supercapacitors: New Developments in Green Energy Storage investigates green materials-based supercapacitors, considering not only their fundamental characteristics but also implications of their use at industrial scales. The book focuses on the special synthesis techniques, applications, and commercial challenges associated with green supercapacitors. The book sets out the components and performance-governin... parameters of green supercapacitors and identifies the challenges and limitations involved in their implementation. It is split into three parts: the first part extensively covers the fundamentals of green supercapacitors, the second part looks at applications, and the final part presents case studies and considers future developments.The book will be of value to postgraduate students and research scholars, as well as industry professionals working in sustainable energy, materials science, nanomaterials, and the electronic and automobile industries.

    • Nanophotonics with Diamond and Silicon Carbide for Quantum Technologies

      • 1st Edition
      • April 18, 2025
      • Mario Agio + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nanophotonics with Diamond and Silicon Carbide for Quantum Technologies provides an in-depth overview of key developments in diamond and silicon carbide photonics to enable spin-photon interfaces, quantum computing, quantum imaging, and quantum sensing. Written by world experts, chapters discuss nanophotonics effects (atomic size point center properties in the materials), fabrication of photonic components and integrated photonics circuits, photonics and nanophotonics enabling quantum sensing, and quantum information and networks via spin-photon interface. This book is a valuable resource to researchers and professionals interested on the fundamentals, trends, and diamond and silicon carbide applications in the quantum technology industry.

    • Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen-Based Energy Storage, Volume 1

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Volodymyr Yartys
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Metal Hydrides: Materials and Technologies for Hydrogen-Based Energy Storage comprehensively describes the synthesis and rich chemistry of a vast variety of the most important group of hydrogen storage materials – metal hydrides. In addition to exploring tailored properties manipulated by tuning their composition, morphology, and structure, the book also presents the most important applications of metal hydrides, including hydrogen and heat storage systems, hydrogen compression, hydrogen generation, and their use as electrode materials in rechargeable batteries.An international team of renowned experts contributes chapters covering four key areas: (a) Solid state materials for hydrogen storage with storage capacities reaching 18.5 wt. % H; (b) Hydrides with advanced tailored properties achieved by appropriate processing, nanoscaling, chemical and structural optimization, and use of catalysts; (c) In situ and operando characterization of the mechanism and kinetics of interactions in metal–hydrogen systems; and (d) Prime applications in hydrogen-based energy storage

    • Metal Oxide-Based Thermoelectric Materials

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Jai Singh + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Thus far the top-performing thermoelectric materials have included toxic elements or materials that are not abundant or expensive and difficult to produce. Consequently metal oxide materials are now being investigated as potential thermoelectric materials. Metal oxide-based thermoelectric materials reviews the characteristics of metal oxide materials in comparison to other materials utilized for thermoelectric applications. In particular, there is discussion of the intrinsic advantages of metal oxide materials such as their chemical and thermal stability, environmental friendliness, cheap raw material costs, and chemical flexibility. In addition, the book includes information on their high-temperature stability, adjustable electronic and phonon transport behavior, and well-established simple production processes. Strategies to enhance the thermoelectric properties of metal oxide materials are emphasized in the book. Finally, emerging applications of metal oxide-based thermoelectrics are touched on with an overview of the remaining challenges and opportunities towards commercial translation. Metal oxide-based thermoelectric materials is a suitable reference book for researchers and scientists in academia and R&D in the subject areas of materials science and engineering and energy

    • Functionalized Nanomaterials for Biosensing and Bioelectronics Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • June 4, 2024
      • Sudheesh K. Shukla + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Functionalized Nanomaterials for Biosensing and Bioelectronics Applications: Trends and Challenges describes current and future opportunities for integrating the unique properties of two-dimensional nanomaterials with bioelectronic interfaces. Sections focus on background information and fundamental concepts, review the available functionalized nanomaterials and their properties, explore the integration of functionalized nanomaterials with bioelectronics, including available fabrication and characterization methods, electrical behavior at the interface, and design and synthesis guidelines, and review examples of microsystems where functionalized nanomaterials are being integrated with bioelectronics. This book is suitable for researchers and practitioners in academia and R&D working in materials science and engineering, analytical chemistry, and related fields.

    • Paper-Based Optical Chemosensors

      • 1st Edition
      • November 13, 2024
      • Liang Feng
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Paper-based Optical Chemosensors comprehensively discusses the origin, development, and current state-of-the-art in paper-based sensors. With a focus on the principles, classifications, methodology, design, and application of paper-based sensors, this book represents a developing research field with recent innovative applications resulting in a comprehensive presentation of the different physico-chemical techniques using paper sensors. It discloses underlying rules and factors in paper-based sensors and discusses intricate sensing systems and working environments by ways of chemistry and physics for a variety of application scenarios such as environmental protection, food safety, public safety, and clinical diagnosis.This is a valuable resource for researchers who major in analytical chemistry, or for those who are interested in the development of methods or devices for rapid analysis/monitoring based on paper/membrane-based sensors who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.