Rövid leírás:

Emerging Energy Materials: Applications and Challenges presents an outline for materials used in progressive energy systems. This book is a timely reference for researchers looking to improve their understanding of emerging energy materials.

Hosszú leírás:

Emerging Energy Materials: Applications and Challenges guides the reader through materials used in progressive energy systems.

It tackles their use in energy storage across solar, bio, geothermal, wind, fossil, hydrogen, nuclear, and thermal energy. Specific chapters are dedicated to energy reaping systems currently in development. This book contributes to the current literature by highlighting concerns that are frequently overlooked in energy materials textbooks. Awareness of these challenges and contemplation of possible solutions is critical for advancing the field of energy material technologies.

Key features:

• Provides up-to-date information on the synthesis, characterization, and a range of applications using various physical and chemical methods


• Presents the latest advances in future energy materials and technologies subjected to specific applications


• Includes applied illustrations, references, and advances in order to explain the challenges and trade-offs in the field of energy material research and development


• Includes coverage of solar cell and photovoltaic, hydro power, nuclear energy, fuel cell, battery electrode, supercapacitor and hydrogen storage applications

This book is a timely reference for researchers looking to improve their understanding of emerging energy materials, as well as postgraduate students considering a career within materials science, renewable energy and materials chemistry.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Section I: Energy Storage Devices and Energy Conversion Devices

Chapter 1. Basics and Design of the Supercapattery: An Energy Storage Device

M. Pershaanaa, Ariff Zahiruddin, Mohd Fakhruddin, Shahid Bashir, S. Ramesh, and K. Ramesh

Chapter 2. Rare-Earth Doped Cathode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Amol Nande, Vijay Chaudhari, J. D. Punde, and S. J. Dhoble

Chapter 3. Future Materials for Thermoelectric and Hydrogen Energy

Ashwani Kumar, Durvesh Gautam, Ramesh Chandra, and Yogendra K. Gautam

Section II: Phosphors and Luminescent Materials

Chapter 4. Quantum Cutting in Photoluminescence Downconversion Phosphors

Abhijeet R. Kadam, Nirupama S. Dhoble, and Sanjay. J. Dhoble

Chapter 5. Recent Development in Rare-Earth Doped Phosphors for Eco-Friendly and Energy-Saving Lighting Applications
Yatish R. Parauha, Marta Michalska-Domanska, and Sanjay J. Dhoble

Chapter 6. Spectroscopic Properties of Rare-Earth Activated Energy-Saving LED Phosphors
M.D. Mehare, Chaitali M. Mehare, Vijay Singh, and Sanjay J. Dhoble

Chapter 7. Effect of Singly, Doubly and Triply Ionized Ions on Photoluminescent Energy Materials

Abhijeet R. Kadam, Fuad Ameen, and Sanjay J. Dhoble

Section III: Photovoltaics and Energy-Harvesting materials

Chapter 8. Highly Stable Inorganic Hole Transport Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells
Sarojini Jeeva Panchu and Hendrik C. Swart

Chapter 9. Metal-Halide Perovskites: Opportunities and Challenges
Sumedha Tamboli, Govind B. Nair, Sanjay J. Dhoble, and Hendrik C. Swart

Chapter 10. Solar Cell with Recent Improvements and Energy-Saving Strategies for Future World

Yatish Parauha, B. Vengadaesvaran, N. S. Dhoble and S. J. Dhoble

Section IV: Sensors and Detectors

Chapter 11. Energy-Saving Materials for Self-Powered Photodetection

Nupur Saxena, Tania Kalsi, Ashok Bera, and Pragati Kumar