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Nanostructured, functional and flexible materials for energy /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pandikumar, Alagarsamy, Rameshkumar, Perumal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • NANOSTRUCTURED, FUNCTIONAL, AND FLEXIBLE MATERIALS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE SYSTEMS
  • NANOSTRUCTURED, FUNCTIONAL, AND FLEXIBLE MATERIALS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE SYSTEMS
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • 1
  • Basic principles in energy conversion and storage
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Lithium batteries
  • 2.1 Battery principle and basics
  • 3. Supercapacitors
  • 3.1 Working principle of a supercapacitor
  • 4. Dye-sensitized solar cells
  • 4.1 Major components of dye-sensitized solar cells
  • 4.2 Working principles of dye-sensitized solar cells
  • 5. Hydrogen production by photocatalytic water splitting
  • 6. Fuel cell
  • 7. Conclusions
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • References
  • 2
  • Low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage applications
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Synthetic aspects of carbon-based nanomaterials
  • 2.1 Synthesis of carbon nanodots
  • 2.2 Graphene preparation
  • 2.3 Synthesizing graphene quantum dots
  • 3. Energy characteristics of carbon nanodots
  • 4. Potential properties of graphene
  • 5. Carbon nanotubes in renewable energy applications
  • 5.1 Hydrogen storage
  • 5.2 Solar cells
  • 5.3 Energy conversion using carbon nanotubes
  • 5.4 Carbon nanotubes in energy storage
  • 5.4.1 Batteries
  • 5.4.2 Supercapacitors
  • 6. Applications of carbon nanodots in energy conversion and storage
  • 6.1 Application in supercapacitors
  • 6.2 Application in Li-ion batteries
  • 6.3 Application in solar cells
  • 6.4 Application in light-emitting diodes
  • 7. Applications of graphene in energy conversion and storage
  • 7.1 Solar cells
  • 7.2 Battery
  • 7.3 Fuel cells
  • 7.4 Supercapacitors
  • 7.5 Hydrogen storage devices
  • 8. Applications of graphene quantum dots related to energy conversion and storage
  • 8.1 Supercapacitors
  • 8.2 Batteries
  • 8.3 Photovoltaic cells/solar cells
  • 8.4 Fuel cells
  • 9. Summary and future aspects
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  • References
  • 3
  • Nanostructured bifunctional electrocatalyst support materials for unitized regenerative fuel cells
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Unitized regenerative fuel cell system
  • 3. Role of electrocatalysts and electrocatalyst support materials
  • 4. Types of electrocatalysts support materials and their performance in a URFC
  • 4.1 Carbon structures as electrocatalyst supports
  • 4.2 Unsupported and IrO2-supported electrocatalysts
  • 4.3 Ti-based compounds as electrocatalyst supports
  • 4.4 Sb-doped SnO2 and SiO2-SO3H electrocatalyst support
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 4
  • Polymeric nanomaterials in fuel cell applications
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Polymeric nanomaterials in microbial fuel cells
  • 3. Polymeric nanomaterials in hydrogen fuel cells
  • 4. Polymeric nanomaterials in direct methanol fuel cells
  • 5. Conclusions and future directions
  • References
  • 5
  • Nanocarbon: lost cost materials for perovskite solar cells