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Sustainable 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.
Sommario
Part 1: Electrochemical systems and energy storage
1. Electrochemical energy storage devices
2. Nanoarchitectured conducting polymers: Rational design and relative activity for next-generation supercapacitors
3. Current progress in the development of Fe-air batteries and their prospects for next-generation batteries
4. Functional material developments of fuel cells and the key factors for real commercialization of next-generation energy devices
Part 2: Energy conversion and harvesting
5. Graphene and its derivatives, synthesis route, and
mechanism for photovoltaic solar cell applications
6. Solution-processed quantum dot-sensitized
solar cell based on "green” materials
7. Colloidal quantum dots based solar cells
8. Future perspectives of perovskite solar cells: Metal
oxide-based inorganic hole-transporting
materials
9. Recent advancement in sustainable energy harvesting
using piezoelectric materials
Part 3: Advanced sustainable energy, materials, and
device concepts
10. An approach to designing smart future electronics
using nature-driven biopiezoelectric/triboelectric
nanogenerators
11. Polysaccharide-based polymer electrolytes for
future renewable energy sources
12. Biomass-derived functional carbon nanomaterials for
the development of futuristic energy devices
13. First-principles materials design for graphene-based
sensor applications
14. Recycled silicon waste as a sustainable energy
material
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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.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.
