Handbook of Emerging Materials for Sustainable Energy

Part 1: Advanced materials in battery technology Recent advances of nanomaterials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries: opportunities and challenges Functional materials for solid-state battery applications Part 2: Emerging materials in electrochemistry Supercapacitors: basics and progress Electrochemical capacitors: basic concepts and emerging nanomaterials for electrodes Nanoporous silicon materials for solar energy by electrochemical approach Mixed transition metal oxides for electrochemical energy storage Bi- and trimetallic MOFs and their MOF-derived nanocarbons in electrocatalytic water splitting processes Part 3: Novel materials for solar energy Photovoltaic devices: dye sensitized and perovskite solar cells Photovoltaics: background and novel carbon-based materials for third-generation solar cells Photochromic molecules and materials: design and development Designing heterostructures for production of solar fuels Evacuated solar energy collector Part 4: Emerging materials in photocatalysis Nanostructured semiconductors for hydrogen production through photocatalyatic water splitting Doped mixed phase transition metal oxides for photocatalysis Graphitic carbon nitride as a metal free photocatalyst for solar water splitting Lanthanide-based metal-organic frameworks as a promising visible light photocatalyst for hydrogen production Part 5: Advanced materials for biofules and biohydrogen Biofuels Trends in valorization of biomass to biofuels: biobutanol Bioethanol as an alternative energy resource for a sustainability: an approach Biodiesel production from various nonedible plant seeds via transesterification process as an alternate feedstock Microalgae as a source of sustainable energy resource for biofuels: a review Mesoporous polymers for the catalytic conversion of biomass platform molecules to value-added chemicals Sustainable biohydrogen production: technoeconomic analysis Catalytic hydrogen generation from biomass and its derivatives Part 6: Materials for carbon capture Carbon dioxide sequestration, conversion and utilization Carbon capture using NaCl (halite) Carbon capture using halite, seawater, and saline water Part 7: Modern materials for energy and environmental applications Recent developments in techniques and technologies for analytical, spectroscopic, structural, and morphological characterization of modern materials of advanced applications Recent trends and future potential of sustainable energy efficient materials for commercial buildings Materials for energy-efficient systems and environmental remediation Chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals—optoelectronic applications Elemental semiconductor nanocrystals Metal oxide nanocrystals— applications Special modifying inorganic physical vapor deposition coatings and surface systems for sustainable energy products Growth of 2D boron materials Surface modification of metal-organic frameworks and their applications for the gas adsorption