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This book serves as a guide for beginners in the areas of thin films preparations, characterization, and device making, while also providing insight into the area for the experts. The advancement in the nanostructured materials for the development of devices is fully explored by the authors. Consistent with chemically deposited metal oxides increasing prominence for development of devices such supercapacitors, batteries and sensors, the book is idea for research engineers and technical staff if fabrication facilities.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Porous composite materials for glucose sensing.- Chapter 2. Metal Chalcogenides Thin Films for Photoelectrochemical (PEC) Solar Cells.- Chapter 3. 2D materials for energy storage.- Chapter 4. Porous materials for electrocatalysis.- Chapter 5. Rare Earth Sulfide Based Thin Film Nanomaterials by Chemical Methods.- Chapter 6. 2D Materials for Supercapacitors.- Chapter 7. Thin Film Nanomaterials based on Rare earth based Selenide.- Chapter 8. Barium Zirconium Sulfide (BaZrS3) Chalcogenides for Perovskite Solar Cell Applications: Numerical Simulation Approach.- Chapter 9. Density Functional Theory (DFT) for Energy Conversion Systems.- Chapter 10. Metal based Phosphates/carbon hybrid nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization and applications in energy storage.- Chapter 11. Recent advances in metal chalcogenides/carbon composites for supercapacitors.- Chapter 12. Review on carbon integrated Tungsten Chalcogenides (C@WX2 (X= S, Se, Te)) nanocomposites: Synthesis, Characterization, and supercapacitor Applications.- Chapter 13. Titanium Dioxide-Carbon Composites: Advances in Photocatalysis for Environmental Remediation and Sustainable Technology .- Chapter 14. Carbon Nanotubes for versatile applications.- Chapter 15. Transition Metal Chalcogenide MoS2 and Its Nanocomposites for Next-Generation Energy Storage.- Chapter 16. Application of metal oxides in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) as free radical scavengers (FRS).- Chapter 17. Hollow Structured Transition Metal Sulfides and Selenides for Supercapacitor Application.- Chapter 18. Progress in Transition Metal chalcogenides-based cathodes for High-Efficiency Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries.- Chapter 19. Design and development of bimetallic selenides as electrode materials for supercapacitor applications.
About the author
Fabian I. Ezema is a Professor at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He obtained a PhD and MSc in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and a BSc from the then Anambra State University of Science and Technology, Enugu. His researches are on several areas of Materials Science: synthesis and characterizations of particles and thin films materials through chemical routes with emphasis on energy applications. He is interested in materials for thin film solar cells fabrication and nanoparticle synthesis. For the last 15 years, he has been working on the nano/submicron-sized materials for energy conversion and storage (cathodes, anodes, supercapacitors, thin film solar cells, DSSC, etc.), including novel methods of synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of the electrochemical and optical properties. He was a CV Raman Fellow at the Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India, in 2011 and MIF Fellow at Tokyo University of Science, Japan, in 2013. He is avisiting professor to NRSEMT (MATECSS UNESCO Chair) in Varennes, Quebec, Canada, and iThemba Labs, South Africa. He is also a Fellow of UNESCO-UNISA South Africa Chair in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (U2ACN2). He was awarded the University of South Africa (UNISA) visiting researcher program (VRP). Fabian is a senate representative to National Center for Energy Research and Development (NCERD), University of Nigeria, and due to his commitment to research and international visibility was appointed Pioneer Acting Director, International Office of the University of Nigeria after the approval of the office by the University Senate. He has served as Coordinator, Natural Science Unit, School of General Studies, UNN. He is the Coordinator of Nano Research Group, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is the pioneer Dean, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Coal City University Enugu, Nigeria. Fabian has published over 180 high-impact papers in various national and international journals and gave over 50 talks at various conferences, workshops, and seminars. His h-index is 50, i10 index of 213 with over 9608 citations as in google scholar.
Summary
This book serves as a guide for beginners in the areas of thin films preparations, characterization, and device making, while also providing insight into the area for the experts. The advancement in the nanostructured materials for the development of devices is fully explored by the authors. Consistent with chemically deposited metal oxides’ increasing prominence for development of devices such supercapacitors, batteries and sensors, the book is idea for research engineers and technical staff if fabrication facilities.
