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Submit a ProposalAdvanced Energy Materials
 | Edited by Ashutosh Tiwari and Sergiy Valyukh Series: Advance Materials Series Copyright: 2014 | Status: Published ISBN: 9781118686294 | Hardcover | 614 pages | 246 illustrations Price: $195 USD  |
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An essential resource for scientists designing new energy materials for the vast landscape of solar energy conversion as well as materials processing and characterization
Audience
The book is written for a large and broad readership including researchers and university graduate students from diverse backgrounds such as chemistry, materials science, physics, and engineering working in the fields of nanotechnology, photovoltaic device technology, and non-conventional energy.
The book is written for a large and broad readership including researchers and university graduate students from diverse backgrounds such as chemistry, materials science, physics, and engineering working in the fields of nanotechnology, photovoltaic device technology, and non-conventional energy.
Description
Based on the new and fundamental research on novel energy materials with tailor-made photonic properties, the role of materials engineering has been to provide much needed support in the development of photovoltaic devices. Advanced Energy Materials offers a unique, state-of-the-art look at the new world of novel energy materials science, shedding light on the subject’s vast multi-disciplinary approach.
The book focuses particularly on photovoltaics, efficient light sources, fuel cells, energy-saving technologies, energy storage technologies, nanostructured materials as well as innovating materials and techniques for future nanoscale electronics. Pathways to future development are also discussed.
Critical, cutting-edge subjects are addressed, including:
• Non-imaging focusing heliostat
• State-of-the-art of nanostructures
• Metal oxide semiconductors and their nanocomposites
• Superionic solids
• Polymer nanocomposites
• Solid electrolytes
• Advanced electronics
• Electronic and optical properties of lead sulfide
• High-electron mobility transistors and light-emitting diodes
• Anti-ferroelectric liquid crystals
• PEEK membrane for fuel cells
• Advanced phosphors for energy-efficient lighting
• Molecular computation photovoltaics and photocatalysts
• Photovoltaic device technology and non-conventional energy applications
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Based on the new and fundamental research on novel energy materials with tailor-made photonic properties, the role of materials engineering has been to provide much needed support in the development of photovoltaic devices. Advanced Energy Materials offers a unique, state-of-the-art look at the new world of novel energy materials science, shedding light on the subject’s vast multi-disciplinary approach.
The book focuses particularly on photovoltaics, efficient light sources, fuel cells, energy-saving technologies, energy storage technologies, nanostructured materials as well as innovating materials and techniques for future nanoscale electronics. Pathways to future development are also discussed.
Critical, cutting-edge subjects are addressed, including:
• Non-imaging focusing heliostat
• State-of-the-art of nanostructures
• Metal oxide semiconductors and their nanocomposites
• Superionic solids
• Polymer nanocomposites
• Solid electrolytes
• Advanced electronics
• Electronic and optical properties of lead sulfide
• High-electron mobility transistors and light-emitting diodes
• Anti-ferroelectric liquid crystals
• PEEK membrane for fuel cells
• Advanced phosphors for energy-efficient lighting
• Molecular computation photovoltaics and photocatalysts
• Photovoltaic device technology and non-conventional energy applications
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Author / Editor Details
Ashutosh Tiwari is an Associate Professor at the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linköping University, Sweden; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and also a docent in applied physics at Linköping University, Sweden. He has published more than 350 articles, patents, and conference proceedings in the field of materials science and technology and has edited/authored more than fifteen books on the advanced state-of-the-art of materials science. He is a founding member of the Advanced Materials World Congress and the Indian Materials Congress.
Ashutosh Tiwari is an Associate Professor at the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linköping University, Sweden; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and also a docent in applied physics at Linköping University, Sweden. He has published more than 350 articles, patents, and conference proceedings in the field of materials science and technology and has edited/authored more than fifteen books on the advanced state-of-the-art of materials science. He is a founding member of the Advanced Materials World Congress and the Indian Materials Congress.
Sergiy Valyukh is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Applied Optics, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, Sweden. He obtained his PhD from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in the Ukraine. In 2003, Dr. Valyukh was invited by the Swedish LCD Center and Dalarna University to conduct research in the field of applied physics of liquid crystals. In 2008[add an N-dash]2009, he developed several new electrooptical devices for companies producing displays, based on liquid crystals, and he was nominated by the Swedish Innovation Foundation ALMI in the category “New Developer in Dalarna Business 2009.” In 2012, he became a docent in applied optics at Linköping University.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1 Non-imaging Focusing Heliostat
Kok-Keong Chong
2 State-of-the-Art of Nanostructures in Solar Energy Research
Suresh Sagadevan
3 Metal Oxide Semiconductors and Their Nanocomposites Application towards Photovoltaic and Photocatalytic
Sadia Ameen, M. Shaheer Akhtar, Hyung-Kee Seo and Hyung Shik Shin
4 Superionic Solids in Energy Device Applications
Angesh Chandra and Archana Chandra
5 Polymer Nanocomposites: New Advanced Dielectric Materials for Energy Storage Applications
Vijay Kumar Thakur and Michael R. Kessler
6 Solid Electrolytes: Principles and Applications
S.W. Anwane
7 Advanced Electronics: Looking beyond Silicon
Surender Duhan and Vijay Tomer
8 Ab-Initio Determination of Pressure-Dependent Electronic and Optical Properties of Lead Sul ¯¬de for Energy Applications
Pooja B and G. Sharma
9 Radiation Damage in GaN-Based Materials and Devices
S.J. Pearton, Richard Deist, Alexander Y. Polyakov, Fan Ren, Lu Liu and Jihyun Kim
10 Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Smart Materials for Future Displays
Manoj Bhushan Pandey, Roman Dabrowski and Ravindra Dhar
11 Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Membrane for Fuel Cell Applications
Tungabidya Maharana, Alekha Kumar Sutar, Nibedita Nath, Anita Routaray, Yuvraj Singh Negi and Bikash Mohanty
12 Vanadate Phosphors for Energy Ef ¯¬cient Lighting
K. N. Shinde and Roshani Singh
13 Molecular Computation on Functionalized Solid Substrates
Prakash Chandra Mondal
14 Ionic Liquid Stabilized Metal NPs and Their Role as Potent Catalyst
Kamlesh Kumari, Prashant Singh and Gopal K.Mehrotra
15 There-- Plenty of Room in the Field of Zeolite-Y Enslaved Nanohybrid Materials as Eco-Friendly Catalysts: Selected Catalytic Reactions
C.K. Modi and Parthiv M. Trivedi
Index
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Preface
1 Non-imaging Focusing Heliostat
Kok-Keong Chong
2 State-of-the-Art of Nanostructures in Solar Energy Research
Suresh Sagadevan
3 Metal Oxide Semiconductors and Their Nanocomposites Application towards Photovoltaic and Photocatalytic
Sadia Ameen, M. Shaheer Akhtar, Hyung-Kee Seo and Hyung Shik Shin
4 Superionic Solids in Energy Device Applications
Angesh Chandra and Archana Chandra
5 Polymer Nanocomposites: New Advanced Dielectric Materials for Energy Storage Applications
Vijay Kumar Thakur and Michael R. Kessler
6 Solid Electrolytes: Principles and Applications
S.W. Anwane
7 Advanced Electronics: Looking beyond Silicon
Surender Duhan and Vijay Tomer
8 Ab-Initio Determination of Pressure-Dependent Electronic and Optical Properties of Lead Sul ¯¬de for Energy Applications
Pooja B and G. Sharma
9 Radiation Damage in GaN-Based Materials and Devices
S.J. Pearton, Richard Deist, Alexander Y. Polyakov, Fan Ren, Lu Liu and Jihyun Kim
10 Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Smart Materials for Future Displays
Manoj Bhushan Pandey, Roman Dabrowski and Ravindra Dhar
11 Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Membrane for Fuel Cell Applications
Tungabidya Maharana, Alekha Kumar Sutar, Nibedita Nath, Anita Routaray, Yuvraj Singh Negi and Bikash Mohanty
12 Vanadate Phosphors for Energy Ef ¯¬cient Lighting
K. N. Shinde and Roshani Singh
13 Molecular Computation on Functionalized Solid Substrates
Prakash Chandra Mondal
14 Ionic Liquid Stabilized Metal NPs and Their Role as Potent Catalyst
Kamlesh Kumari, Prashant Singh and Gopal K.Mehrotra
15 There-- Plenty of Room in the Field of Zeolite-Y Enslaved Nanohybrid Materials as Eco-Friendly Catalysts: Selected Catalytic Reactions
C.K. Modi and Parthiv M. Trivedi
Index
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BISAC SUBJECT HEADINGS
TEC021000: Technology & Engineering/Materials Science
TEC027000: Technology & Engineering/Nanotechnology
BIC CODES
TGM: Materials Science
TBN: Nanotechnology
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