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 Department of Chemistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala, India.

Naveen V. Kulkarni, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India. He obtained his PhD from Karnatak University Dharwad, India, and has worked at Technion (Israel), the University of Texas at Arlington (USA), the University of Rochester (USA), and the University of Cambridge (UK). Dr. Kulkarni has 18 years of experience in research relating to coordination chemistry, catalysis, energy materials, and environmental science. He has published over 50 research articles in reputed journals, authored book chapters, edited books and journal special issues, and conference proceedings.

Boris I. Kharissov Facultad de Ciencias Qu�micas, Universidad Aut�noma de Nuevo Le�n (UANL), Monterrey, Mexico.

Boris I. Kharissov, PhD, is currently a Professor and Researcher at the Universidad Aut�noma de Nuevo Le�n (UANL), Mexico. He received his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1993 from the Moscow State University, Russia and Dr. Hab. in physical chemistry in 2006 from Rostov State University, Russia. He also took part in the effort to deal with the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, working in the contaminated zone in 1987.

His research specialisms include materials chemistry, coordination and inorganic chemistry, phthalocyanines, ultrasound, nanotechnology, chemical treatment of petroleum, and environmental remediation. Prof. Kharissov is the co-author of 16 books, 215 articles, 25 book chapters, and holds 8 patents. He has co-edited 3 invited special issues of international journals and is the member of the Editorial board of 6 journals. According to Elsevier's data report (2023), he is within the top 2% of most cited scientists in the world.