Sulfide and Selenide Based Materials for Emerging Applications. Sustainable Energy Harvesting and Storage Technology

Table of Contents

Section 1: General introduction to the technologies and materials for Sustainable development 1. Sustainability and materials 2. Sustainable Energy harvesting technologies 3. Introduction to various sustainable energy storage technologies

Section 2: Sulfide and selenides as earth abundant material for Photovoltaic devices 4. Theoretical aspects of kesterites: structure, point defects, electronic structure modifications 5. Sulfides and selenides: materials processing and properties of kesterite solar absorber 6. Cationic substitution and doping approaches for synthesis of high performance kesterite 7. Molybdenum back contact interface engineering of kesterite CZTSSe solar cells: ultrathin intermediate engineering layers 8. Absorber-buffer interface engineering for kesterite CZTS(Se) solar cells: wide bandgap buffer layers and post-sulfurization treatment 9. Sulfide and selenide-based flexible and semi-transparent solar cells for building integrated Photovoltaics 10. Emerging trends in sulfide and selenide based low-cost thin film solar cells 11. Sulfide and selenides as electrodes for dye sensitized solar cells

Section 3: Sulfide and selenides for Thermo-electric energy harvesting 12. Thermoelectricity: phenomenon and applications 13. Thermoelectric properties of sulfide and selenide materials 14. High performance low-cost sulfide/selenide thermoelectric devices

Section 4: Sulfide and selenides based catalysis for energy harvesting through water splitting 15. Hydrogen generation technology for future hydrogen economy: An introduction 16. Synthesis, fabrication and processing of sulfide and selenide based materials for water splitting 17. Sulfide and selenide based electro-catalysts for Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) 18. Sulfide and selenide based electro-catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) 19. Layered 2D Transition Metal Chalcogenides (W, Mo, Pt) for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction 20. Sulfide and selenide electrode for photo-electrochemical water splitting 21. Photovoltaic/catalysis integration towards a 100% renewable energy infrastructure

Section 5: Sulfides and selenides for energy storage 22. Energy storage technologies for sustainable development 23. Challenges and opportunities for energy storage technologies 24. Recent advances in metal-ion batteries with sulfides/selenides 25. Kinetics of polysulfides on metal-sulfur batteries (Li-S, Na-S, Mg-S) 26. Recent advances in metal sulfur batteries with sulfides/selenides 27. Sulphides and selenides as supercapacitor electrodes 28. Special focus on 3D printing of sulfides/selenides for energy conversion and storage

Authors

Goutam Kumar Dalapati Sunkonnect, Singapore. Dr. Dalapati serves as a scientist with the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR, (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Singapore where he was engaged in the development of low cost materials for smart coating, renewable energy, metal-oxides for photovoltaic and solar-hydrogen production, transparent energy saving coatings for thermal comfort. His key research interests and current industrial engagements are in the areas of thin film technology, smart coating, solar cells. His research works focus on the development of prototype (solar cells and heat mirror) using earth abundant and non-toxic materials He has contributed to more than 100 scientific journal papers. His research contribution includes publication in Progress In Materials Science, Nano Energy, Scientific Reports (Nature publishing group), Progress In Photovoltaic (Wiley), ACS applied materials and Interfaces (ACS), Appl. Phys. Lett. (AIP), IEEE Trans. Electron Dev etc. Since, 2016, he is serving as an associate editor for Scientific Reports (Nature publishing group), guest editor for special issue of ICMAT 2019 in Journal of Materials Chemistry A (RSC). From 2004 to 2005, he was a Research Associate at the Microelectronics Technology Group, School of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. His area of research work was in process optimization of strained-Si MOSFETs device for future CMOS technology. From 2005 to 2006, he was with the Silicon Nano Device Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, on advanced gate stack using high-? gate dielectrics and high mobility channel materials. Terence Kin Shun Wong Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Terence Wong obtained his BA and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1987 and 1992 respectively. He is an associate professor at the School of electrical & electronic engineering of Nanyang Technological University
(NTU). From 2015-2020, he served as program lead for the joint MSc Green Electronics program. Before joining NTU, he was lecturer at the Department of electronic engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wong's research specialization is in semiconductor materials and devices for photovoltaics, displays and CMOS. Since 2015, his main research focus has been on the fabrication and characterization of sulfide based kesterite thin film solar cells. The research effort includes dopant incorporation into the CZTS and the development of novel ultrathin intermediate layers that act as a barrier between the molybdenum back contact and the CZTS absorber layer. From 2010-2015, he was working on organic bulk heterojunction solar cells enhanced by core-shell plasmonic metallic nanoparticles (nanorods and nanospheres with silica shell). He has also worked on the development of all printed flexible thick film hybrid AC electroluminescent devices using organic dyes as a downshifting layer. An AC powered warm white sheet light source was demonstrated in 2017 in SID IDW. Dr. Wong has published 84 journal articles and 75 conference proceedings/abstracts and is the sole author of an e-book on semiconductor strain metrology. He is senior member of IEEE, SPIE and a chartered physicist. Subrata Kundu CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), India. Dr.Subrata Kundu had received his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in early 2005. Then he moved to University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA and later Texas A&M University, USA as a post-doctoral research work (from 2005 to
2010). He is working in the field of Materials Chemistry mainly emphasized in size & shape selective nanomaterials synthesis, DNA based nanomaterials self-assembly, Nano fibers by electrospinning; application of nanoparticles in catalysis, analytical & environmental chemistry, Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering studies (SERS) and various energy related fields such as Thermoelectric Materials, Supercapacitors, electrochemical water splitting such as oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and dye sensitized solar cells ( DSSCs). He has received several awards and holding editorial board of few journals including 'Scientific Reports' from Nature publishers. Dr. Kundu has published more than 190+ research publications in reputed international journals and having google scholar citations more than 11000+. He is currently holding positions of Principal Scientist at CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi, India. Dr. Kundu and his coworkers are now working in the forefront area of Material Science with applications mainly focused on energy, environment and catalysis Amit Kumar Chakraborty National Institute of Technology, India. Dr. Amit Kumar Chakraborty is currently a Professor of Physics at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, an institute of national importance under Ministry of Education, Govt. of India and is also the Professor-in-Charge of the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials at NIT Durgapur. He had worked as a Post-Doctoral Scientist at the Laboratory for Mechanical Systems Engineering at EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science & Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland during 2008-2010, and as a Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry, Durham University, United Kingdom during
2005-2008 before joining NIT Durgapur as an Associate Professor in August 2010. Dr. Chakraborty received his Ph.D. in the field of experimental nanoscience (of carbon nanostructures) in 2006 from the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of
Nottingham, after receiving a scholarship from the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of United Kingdom. His recent research interest concerns with the synthesis and application of nanomaterials (oxides, sulphides and their composites with carbon) for sustainable applications such as renewable energy technologies (supercapacitors, batteries, DSSC), clean water, and sensors. Siarhei Zhuk Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland. Dr.Siarhei Zhuk, born in Belarus, received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2020. His Ph.D. thesis is about cation substitution in the absorber layer and back interface engineering of pure sulphide kesterite thin film solar cells. His key research interests include synthesis and characterization of novel sulphide and nitride semiconducting materials, smart coatings and photocathodes for photocatalytic water splitting.