Sustainable Materials for Next Generation Energy Devices
Challenges and Opportunities
- 1st Edition - December 1, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Kuan Yew Cheong, Lung-Chien Chen
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 6 2 8 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 9 0 6 - 6
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Request a sales quoteSustainable Materials for Next Generation Energy Devices: Challenges and Opportunities presents the latest state-of-the-art knowledge and innovation related to environmentally-friendly functional materials that can be developed for, and employed in, producing a feasible next generation of energy storage and conversion devices. The book is broken up into three sections, covering Energy Storage, Energy Conversion and Advanced Concepts. It will be an important reference for researchers, engineers and students who want to gain extensive knowledge in green and/or sustainable functional materials and their applications.
- Provides a concise resource for readers interested in sustainable and green functional materials for energy conversion and storage devices
- Emphasizes sustainable and green concepts in the design of energy devices based on renewable functional materials
- Presents a survey of both the challenges and opportunities available for renewable functional materials in the development of energy devices
Materials Scientists and Engineering in R & D and academia; Chemical Engineers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I: Electrochemical systems and energy storage
- Part II: Energy conversion and harvesting
- Part III: Advanced sustainable energy, materials, and device concepts
- Companion Website
- Part I: Electrochemical systems and energy storage
- Chapter 1: Sustainable functional materials for next-generation supercapacitors
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Components of supercapacitors
- 3: Active materials for supercapacitors
- 4: Future prospects
- Chapter 2: Nanoarchitectured conducting polymers: Rational design and relative activity for next-generation supercapacitors
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Chemistry of CPs
- 3: Pure CPs in supercapacitors
- 4: Design and developmental configurations
- 5: Summary
- 6: Future perspective
- Chapter 3: Current progress in the development of Fe-air batteries and their prospects for next-generation batteries
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Fe-air batteries operational principle
- 3: Current progress of Fe-air batteries
- 4: Future outlook and challenges
- 5: Conclusions
- Chapter 4: Functional material developments of fuel cells and the key factors for real commercialization of next-generation energy devices
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Fuel cell technology development
- 3: Functional material developments for fuel cells
- 4: Key factors for real commercialization
- 5: Conclusion
- Part II: Energy conversion and harvesting
- Chapter 5: Graphene and its derivatives, synthesis route, and mechanism for photovoltaic solar cell applications
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Photovoltaic solar cell technologies
- 3: Graphene material
- 4: Synthesis of graphene and its derivatives for thin film PV cells
- 5: Mechanism/working operation of graphene/graphene metal oxide for PV cells
- 6: Graphene-incorporated PV application
- 7: Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Solution-processed quantum dot-sensitized solar cell based on “green” materials
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction and current scenario
- 2: Fundamental principles of QDSSCs
- 3: Alternative materials for active layers in QDSSCs
- 4: Fabrication of “green” QDs and QDSSCs
- 5: Challenges and limitations
- 6: The way forward
- Chapter 7: Colloidal quantum dots based solar cells
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Synthesis of CQDs
- 3: Charge dynamics in CQDs
- 4: Applications in solar cells
- 5: Conclusions and outlook
- Chapter 8: Future perspectives of perovskite solar cells: Metal oxide-based inorganic hole-transporting materials
- Abstract
- 1: Photovoltaic technologies
- 2: The role of hole-transporting layers
- 3: Metal oxide-based inorganic hole-transporting materials
- 4: Conclusions and future outlook
- Chapter 9: Recent advancement in sustainable energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction to the piezoelectric effect
- 2: Fundamentals and configurations of the piezoelectric effect
- 3: Materials for a piezoelectric energy harvester
- 4: Recent applications of energy harvesters
- 5: Piezoelectrochemical processes for energy harvesting
- 6: Future outlook
- Part III: Advanced sustainable energy, materials, and device concepts
- Chapter 10: An approach to designing smart future electronics using nature-driven biopiezoelectric/triboelectric nanogenerators
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Conflict of interest
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Working principle of piezoelectricity and triboelectricity
- 3: Naturally abundant materials and their piezoelectricity
- 4: Structure and probable interactions
- 5: Fabrication of biopiezoelectric nanogenerator devices
- 6: BPNGs and their applications
- 7: Bio-based triboelectric nanogenerator
- 8: Summary and future challenges
- Chapter 11: Polysaccharide-based polymer electrolytes for future renewable energy sources
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Saccharide
- 3: Polysaccharide
- 4: Polysaccharide as electrolyte
- 5: Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs)
- 6: Cellulose and its derivatives
- 7: Chitin, chitosan, and their derivatives
- 8: Starch
- 9: Agar and agarose
- 10: Summary and outlook
- Chapter 12: Biomass-derived functional carbon nanomaterials for the development of futuristic energy devices
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells
- 3: Carbon-nanostructured material
- 4: Biomass and carbon material synthesis methods
- 5: Heteroatom modification of biomass-derived carbon materials
- 6: Conclusions and perspectives
- Chapter 13: First-principles materials design for graphene-based sensor applications
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methodology
- 3: Adsorption energy and optimized structures
- 4: Energy band structures
- 5: Charge transfer
- 6: Work function
- 7: Scanning tunneling microscopy images
- 8: Electron transport properties
- 9: Conclusions
- Chapter 14: Recycled silicon waste as a sustainable energy material
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Open-loop recycling in silicon waste
- 3: Uncommon conduction mechanism in silicon semiconductors
- 4: Sustainable energy conversion
- 5: Summary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 1, 2020
- No. of pages (Paperback): 402
- No. of pages (eBook): 402
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128206287
- eBook ISBN: 9780128209066
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Kuan Yew Cheong
Kuan Yew Cheong is a Professor in the School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research interests cover device fabrication, surface engineering, nanomaterials, semiconductor materials and devices, and electronic packaging materials.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains MalaysiaLC
Lung-Chien Chen
Dr. Lung-Chien Chen received a B.S. degree in the electrical engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan and his Ph. D degree in the electrical engineering from the National Tsing Hwa University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. In 2002, he joined National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., as a faculty member with the Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 SCI technical papers, 20 International conference, and 160 conference papers. He is the holder of more than 21 patents in his fields of expertise. His current research interests include MOCVD, LPE and solution CVD epitaxial growth technique, fabrication and analysis of III-V group compound semiconductor/oxide semiconductor devices, fabrication and characterization of nano-materials, light-emitting diode (LED), sensor, solar cells, perovskite quantum dots and perovskite optoelectronic devices.
Affiliations and expertise
National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, Republic of ChinaRead Sustainable Materials for Next Generation Energy Devices on ScienceDirect