Nanostructured, Functional, and Flexible Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage Systems

Energy conversion and storage research is driven by a need to attain efficient and sustainable energy production to meet the current and future global energy requirements. Motivated by the recent developments in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanostructured functional materials serve as the most suitable candidate for energy production. Nanostructured functional materials consisting of metals, metal oxides, conducting polymers or carbon materials or their composite materials are considered to be promising candidates for the energy-relevant catalytic processes because of their high performance, easy fabrication, long term stability and low manufacturing cost. This work gathers and reviews developments within the field of nanostructured functional materials towards the energy conversion and storage. Contributions from leading research groups involved in interdisciplinary research in the fields of chemistry, physics and materials science and engineering are presented. Chapters dealing with the development of nanostructured materials for energy conversion processes including oxygen reduction, methanol oxidation, oxygen evolution, hydrogen evolution, formic acid oxidation, solar cells are discussed. The work concludes with a look at the application of nanostructured functional materials in the energy storage system such as supercapacitors and batteries.

With its distinguished international team of expert contributors, Nanostructured, Functional and Flexible Materials for the Development of Energy Conversion and Storage Systems will be an indispensable tool for anyone involved in the field of energy conversion and storage including materials engineers, scientists and academics.

• Covers the importance of energy conversion and storage systems and the application of nanostructured functional materials toward the energy-relevant catalytic processes
• Discusses the basic principles involved in the energy conversion and storage systems and the role of nanostructured functional materials in the current scenario of energy-related research and development

Materials Scientists and Engineers in academia and R & D, chemists

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2. Nanostructured bifunctional electrocatalyst supported materials for unitized regenerative fuel cells
3. Nano Carbon: Low cost material for perovskite solar cells
4. Development in colloidal synthesis of ternary and quaternary tin combined copper chalcogenide nanomaterials for dye-sensitized solar cells
5. Polymeric nanomaterials in fuel cell applications
6. Graphene based nanocomposite materials for Photocatalytic Hydrogen generation
7. Low Dimensional Carbon Based Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications
8. Hierarchically nanostructured functional materials for artificial photosynthesis
9. New generation Titania based Catalysts for Photocatalytic Hydrogen generation
10. A Comprehensive Review of Nanostructured Materials: from Photocatalytic driven Hydrogen Production to Thermoelectric Devices
11. Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials for Solid State Energy Harvesting
12. Electrochemical investigation of binary metal oxides embedded conducting polymer for high performance energy storage application
13. Biomass-derived Porous carbon-based Composites for Supercapacitor Application
14. 2D Materials Based Flexible Supercapacitors for High Energy Storage Devices
15. Nanostructured transition metal sulfide (TMS) anodes for high performance sodium ion batteries
16. Emerging Anode and Cathode Functional Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries
17. Nitride Materials for Energy Applications