Sustainable Materials and Green Processing for Energy Conversion

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Green Processing for Sustainable Materials 2. Advanced Functional Materials and Devices for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications 3. Recent development in Sustainable Technologies for Clean Hydrogen Evolution: Current Scenario and Future Perspectives 4. Earth Abundant Electrocatalysts for Sustainable Energy Conversions 5. Green Processing and Sustainable Materials for Renewable Water Splitting 6. Visible light driven photocatalysts based on graphitic carbon nitride for green and sustainable hydrogen production via water splitting 7. Catalytic reduction of 4-Nitrophenol to 4-Aminphenol in water using metal nanoparticles 8. Catalytic and non-catalytic growth of ZnO nanostructures on different substrates, and Sb-doped ZnO nanostructures on Au-catalyzed Si(100): Components for potential utilization in three dimensional dye-sensitized solar cells 9. Flexible single source precursors for solar light harvesting applications 10. Metal dithiocarbamates as useful precursors to metal sulphides for application in quantum dot-sensitized solar cell 11. Band gap engineering of tin halide perovskite materials for sustainable energy conversion application 12. High-temperature solar selective absorbing coatings for concentrated solar power systems 13. Developing the Processing Stages of Carbon Fiber Composite Paper as Efficient Materials for Energy Conversion, Storage, and Conservation 14. Advanced Self-Charging Power Packs: The Assimilation of Energy Harvesting and Storage Systems

Authors

Kuan Yew Cheong Professor, School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Kuan Yew Cheong is a Professor in the School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research interests cover device fabrication, surface engineering, nanomaterials, semiconductor materials and devices, and electronic packaging materials. Allen W. Apblett Professor of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, USA. Prof. Allen Apblett is professor of chemistry at Oklahoma State University. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Ceramic Society, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is also an Izaac Walton Killam Fellow. Among the awards that he has received are: 2018 Rankin Award, 2014 Oklahoma Chemist of the Year, Project Kaleidoscope's Faculty for the 21st Century selectee, Oklahoma State University Faculty Entrepreneur of the Year, and the Governor General of Canada's Medal. Prof. Apblett's research is the application of inorganic materials chemistry to the multitude of problems that are faced by industry today: improved methods of extracting minerals and recycling waste materials, the direct "one-pot" conversion of minerals to useful commodity chemicals and polymers, new catalytic processes, pollution prevention and remediation and novel processing techniques and products, including utilization of single-source precursors. Allen has over 150 refereed publications, eight patents and one edited book.