Handbook of Emerging Materials for Sustainable Energy

Table of Contents

Part 1: Advanced materials in battery technology

1. Recent advances of nanomaterials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries: opportunities and challenges
2. Functional materials for solid-state battery applications

Part 2: Emerging materials in electrochemistry

1. Supercapacitors: basics and progress
2. Electrochemical capacitors: basic concepts and emerging nanomaterials for electrodes
3. Nanoporous silicon materials for solar energy by electrochemical approach
4. Mixed transition metal oxides for electrochemical energy storage
5. Bi- and trimetallic MOFs and their MOF-derived nanocarbons in electrocatalytic water splitting processes

Part 3: Novel materials for solar energy

1. Photovoltaic devices: dye sensitized and perovskite solar cells
2. Photovoltaics: background and novel carbon-based materials for third-generation solar cells
3. Photochromic molecules and materials: design and development
4. Designing heterostructures for production of solar fuels
5. Evacuated solar energy collector

Part 4: Emerging materials in photocatalysis

1. Nanostructured semiconductors for hydrogen production through photocatalyatic water splitting
2. Doped mixed phase transition metal oxides for photocatalysis
3. Graphitic carbon nitride as a metal free photocatalyst for solar water splitting
4. Lanthanide-based metal-organic frameworks as a promising visible light photocatalyst for hydrogen production

Part 5: Advanced materials for biofules and biohydrogen

1. Biofuels
2. Trends in valorization of biomass to biofuels: biobutanol
3. Bioethanol as an alternative energy resource for a sustainability: an approach
4. Biodiesel production from various nonedible plant seeds via transesterification process as an alternate feedstock
5. Microalgae as a source of sustainable energy resource for biofuels: a review
6. Mesoporous polymers for the catalytic conversion of biomass platform molecules to value-added chemicals
7. Sustainable biohydrogen production: technoeconomic analysis
8. Catalytic hydrogen generation from biomass and its derivatives

Part 6: Materials for carbon capture

1. Carbon dioxide sequestration, conversion and utilization
2. Carbon capture using NaCl (halite)
3. Carbon capture using halite, seawater, and saline water

Part 7: Modern materials for energy and environmental applications

1. Recent developments in techniques and technologies for analytical, spectroscopic, structural, and morphological characterization of modern materials of advanced applications
2. Recent trends and future potential of sustainable energy efficient materials for commercial buildings
3. Materials for energy-efficient systems and environmental remediation
4. Chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals-optoelectronic applications
5. Elemental semiconductor nanocrystals
6. Metal oxide nanocrystals- applications
7. Special modifying inorganic physical vapor deposition coatings and surface systems for sustainable energy products
8. Growth of 2D boron materials
9. Surface modification of metal-organic frameworks and their applications for the gas adsorption

Authors

Naveen V. Kulkarni Assistant Professor (Sr. Gr), Department of Chemistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala, India. Naveen V. Kulkarni, PhD, born in 1984, in India, is currently working as an assistant professor (Sr. Gr) in the Department of Chemistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala, India. He obtained his PhD from Karnatak University Dharwad, India and has several years of postdoctoral experience (Technion - Israel, University of Texas at Arlington - United States and University of Rochester - United States). His areas of expertise are, coordination chemistry, organometallic synthesis, catalysis, energy and environment. He has published 32 research articles in the reputed journals and has one book chapter to his credit. He also has served as a managing guest editor for collections with Materials Today Proceedings and Frontiers in Chemistry. Boris I. Kharissov Professor and Researcher, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL), Monterrey, Mexico. Boris I. Kharissov, PhD, DrHab (born in 1964, in Russia, has lived in Mexico from 1994, and naturalized in Mexico in 2003) is currently a Professor and Researcher at the Universidad Aut�noma de Nuevo Le�n (UANL). He took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, working in the contaminated zone in 1987. Degrees: M.Sc. in 1986, in radiochemistry and a PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1993, from the Moscow State University, Russia; Dr. Hab. in physical chemistry in 2006 from Rostov State University, Russia. Specialties: Materials chemistry, coordination and inorganic chemistry, phthalocyanines, ultrasound, nanotechnology, chemical treatment of petroleum, environmental remediation. Memberships: Mexican Academy of Science, National Researchers System (SNI, Level III). He is the co-author of 13 books, 186 articles, 13 book chapters, and holds eight patents. Co-editor: Three invited special issues of international journals. He is the member of the Editorial board of six journals. His biography was published in: "Who is Who in the World�, "Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century�, and so on.