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MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
A Collection of Peer-Reviewed Research and Review Articles from Nature
Publishing Group
edited by Vincent Dusastre (Nature Publishing Group, UK)
300pp (approx.)
978-981-4317-64-1: US$148 / £92 US$111
/ £69
"In these days of global warming,
oil insecurity, and other problems with fossil fuels, the book is just
what the world needs now. The book's strong scientific base in the
Nature Publishing Group, and its excellent selection of such key energy
fields as energy storage technologies, guarantees its usefulness in
informing scientists, technologists, business people, and citizens
about the latest materials research."--Art Hobson, Professor
Emeritus of Physics, University of Arkansas, USA
"This is a key resource for
researchers working at the cross-roads of cutting edge materials
science and applications to renewable energy technologies. At no time
in our history has the need for rapid progress in efficient energy
generation, storage and transmission been more acute — and this volume
provides up-to-date knowledge that speaks directly about these issues!
It is a must-have and must-read for all researchers and students in the
field!"--Richard Haight, IBM T J Watson Research Center,
Yorktown Heights, New York
"Material science is an important
enabler of scientific discovery, and many of the groundbreaking results
appear in Nature. This volume is an important collection of some of the
best of these papers with a concentration in those materials relevant
for energy, making it a valuable reference. This is a very valuable
reference for students or researchers in material science or
nanoscience."--Mark Reed, Yale University
More reviews...
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 rationale design and improvement of their physical and chemical
properties can lead to energy-production alternatives that have the
potential to compete with existing technologies. In terms of
alternative means to generate electricity that utilize renewable energy
sources, the most dramatic breakthroughs for both mobile (i.e.,
transportation) and stationary applications are taking place in the
fields of solar and fuel cells. And from an energy-storage perspective,
exciting developments can be seen emerging from the fields of
rechargeable batteries and hydrogen storage.
Contents:
- Excitons in Nanoscale Systems (G D Scholes
& G Rumbles)
- Nanowire Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (M Law
et al.)
- Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors (P
Simon & Y Gogotsi)
- High-Performance Lithium Battery Anodes Using
Silicon Nanowire (C K Chan et al.)
- Advanced Anodes for High-Temperature Fuel Cells
(A Atkinson et al.)
- A Redox-Stable Efficient Anode For Solid-Oxide
Fuel Cells (S Tao & J T S Irvine)
- High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage in Lithium and
Sodium Amidoboranes (Z Xiong et al.)
- Tuning Clathrate Hydrates for Hydrogen Storage (H
Lee et al.)
- Complex Thermoelectric Materials (J Snyder
& E S Toberer)
- Silicon Nanowires as Efficient Thermoelectric
Materials (A I Boukai et al.)
- and other papers
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