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Fuel Cells, Solar Panels andStorage Devices

By Johannes Karl Fink
Copyright: 2018   |   Status: Published
ISBN: 9781119480105  |  Hardcover  |  
308 pages | 102 illustrations
Price: $195 USD
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A thorough and complete guide to R&D technical developments in the solar energy field distilled and presented in a very lucid manner.

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The book will serve the needs of polymer science specialists as well materials scientists and electrochemical engineers both in academia and industry. It will also be very informative for people who have only a passing knowledge of these issues, but need to know more from a reliable source.

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Fuel Cells, Solar Panels, and Storage Devices focuses on the basic issues as well as the literature of the past decade on the materials used for fuel cells, solar panels, and storage devices, such as rechargeable batteries. Fuel cell devices, such as direct methanol fuel cells, direct ethanol fuel cells, direct urea fuel cells, as well as biological fuel cells and the electrolytes, membranes and the catalysts used are detailed. Separate chapters are devoted to polymer electrode materials and membranes. With regard to solar cells, the types of solar cells are detailed, such as inorganic-organic hybrid solar cells, solar powered biological fuel cells, heterojunction cells, multi-junction cells, and others. Also, the fabrication methods are described. Further, the electrolytes, membranes, and catalysts used are detailed.
The section that deals with rechargeable batteries explains the types of rechargeable devices, such as aluminum-based batteries, zinc batteries, magnesium batteries, and lithium batteries. Materials that are used for cathodes, anodes and electrolytes are detailed.

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Johannes Karl Fink is Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. His industry and academic career spans more than 30 years in the fields of polymers, and his research interests include characterization, flame retardancy, thermodynamics and the degradation of polymers, pyrolysis, and adhesives. Professor Fink has published several books on physical chemistry and polymer science including A Concise Introduction to Additives for Thermoplastic Polymers (Wiley-Scrivener 2009), Polymeric Sensors and Actuators (Wiley-Scrivener 2012), The Chemistry of Biobased Polymers (Wiley-Scrivener 2014) and Chemical and Methods in Conservation and Restoration (Wiley-Scrivener 2017).

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