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Materials for sustainable energy : a collection of peer-reviewed research and review articles from Nature Publishing Group /

The search for cleaner, cheaper, smaller and more efficient energy technologies has to a large extent been motivated by the development of new materials. The aim of this collection of articles is therefore to focus on what materials-based solutions can offer and show how the rational design and impr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dusastre, Vincent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific : Nature Pub. Group, 2011.
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  • Preface / Vincent Dusastre
  • Research initiatives towards sustainable handling of energy / Jean-Marie Tarascon & Michael Gratzel
  • Photovoltaic cells. Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices / Harry A. Atwater & Albert Polman. Excitons in nanoscale systems / Gregory D. Scholes & Garry Rumbles. Photoelectrochemical cells / Michael Gratzel. High-performance dye-sensitized solar cells based on solvent-free electrolytes produced from eutectic melts / Yu Bai et al. Ultrathin silicon solar microcells for semitransparent, mechanically flexible and microconcentrator module designs / Jongseung Yoon et al. Efficiency enhancement in low-bandgap polymer solar cells by processing with alkane dithiols / J. Peet et al. Metallated conjugated polymers as a new avenue towards high-efficiency polymer solar cells / Wai-Yeung Wong et al. Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources / Bozhi Tian et al. A strong regioregularity effect in self-organizing conjugated polymer films and high-efficiency polythiophene:fullerene solar cells / Youngkyoo Kim et al. Solution-processed PbS quantum dot infrared photodetectors and photovoltaics / Steven A. McDonald et al. Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells / Matt Law [and others]. High-efficiency solution processable polymer photovoltaic cells by self-organization of polymer blends / Gang Li et al. A photovoltaic device structure based on internal electron emission / Eric W. McFarland & Jing Tang. A stable quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell with an amphiphilic ruthenium sensitizer and polymer gel electrolyte / Peng Wang et al. Efficient bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using small-molecular-weight organic thin films / Peter Peumans, Soichi Uchida & Stephen R. Forrest. Thermoelectric converters. Complex thermoelectric materials / G. Jeffrey Snyder & Eric S. Toberer. Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires / Allon I. Hochbaum et al. Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials / Akram I. Boukai et al. Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit / Rama Venkatasubramanian [and others]
  • Batteries and supercapacitors. Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future / Michel Armand [and others]. Materials for electrochemical capacitors / Patrice Simon & Yury Gogotsi. Nanostructured materials for advanced energy conversion and storage devices / Antonino Salvatore Arico [and others]. Nanoionics : ion transport and electrochemical storage in confined systems / J. Maier. Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries / J.-M. Tarascon & M. Armand. Lithium deintercalation in LiFePO[symbol] nanoparticles via a domino-cascade model / C. Delmas [and others].
  • High-performance lithium battery anodes using silicon nanowires / Candace K. Chan et al. The existence of a temperature-driven solid solution in Li[symbol]FePO[symbol] for 0[symbol]x[symbol]1 / Charles Delacourt [and others]. Nano-network electronic conduction in iron and nickel olivine phosphates / P. Subramanya Herle [and others]. Electronically conductive phospho-olivines as lithium storage electrodes / Sung-Yoon Chung, Jason T. Bloking & Yet-Ming Chiang
  • Fuel cells. Advanced anodes for high-temperature fuel cells / A. Atkinson et al. Materials for fuel-cell technologies / Brian C.H. Steele & Angelika Heinzel. One-dimensional imidazole aggregate in aluminium porous coordination polymers with high proton conductivity / Sareeya Bureekaew et al. Parallel cylindrical water nanochannels in nafion fuel-cell membranes / Klaus Schmidt-Rohr & Qiang Chen. A class of non-precious metal composite catalysts for fuel cells / Rajesh Bashyam & Piotr Zelenay. Disruption of extended defects in solid oxide fuel cell anodes for methane oxidation / Juan Carlos Ruiz-Morales et al. A high-performance cathode for the next generation of solid-oxide fuel cells / Zongping Shao & Sossina M. Haile. A redox-stable efficient anode for solid-oxide fuel cells / Shanwen Tao & John T.S. Irvine
  • Hydrogen generation and storage. Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications / Louis Schlapbach & Andreas Zuttel. A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light / Xinchen Wang et al. High-capacity hydrogen storage in lithium and sodium amidoboranes / Zhitao Xiong et al. Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution / Jeff Greeley [and others]. Tuning clathrate hydrates for hydrogen storage / Huen Lee et al. Hydrogen from catalytic reforming of biomass-derived hydrocarbons in liquid water / R.D. Cortright, R.R. Davda & J.A. Dumesic. Direct splitting of water under visible light irradiation with an oxide semiconductor photocatalyst / Zhigang Zou [and others]
  • Superconductors. Materials science challenges for high-temperature superconducting wire / S.R. Foltyn et al. High-T[symbol] superconducting materials for electric power applications / David Larbalestier [and others]. Template engineering of co-doped BaFe[symbol]As[symbol] single-crystal thin films / S. Lee et al. Strongly enhanced current densities in superconducting coated conductors of YBa[symbol]Cu[symbol]O[symbol]+BaZrO[symbol] / J.L. MacManus-Driscoll et al.