Fuel cells, solar panels, and storage devices materials and methods / Johannes Karl Fink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fink, Johannes Karl, author.

Series:

THEi Wiley ebooks.

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electric batteries.

Fuel cells.

Solar cells.

Energy harvesting--Materials.

Energy harvesting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Scrivener Publishing : Wiley, 2018.

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

This book focuses on the materials used for fuel cells, solar panels, and storage devices, such as rechargeable batteries. Fuel cell devices, such as direct methanol fuel cells, direct ethanol fuel cells, direct urea fuel cells, as well as biological fuel cells and the electrolytes, membranes, and catalysts used there are detailed. Separate chapters are devoted to polymer electrode materials and membranes. With regard to solar cells, the types of solar cells are detailed, such as inorganic-organic hybrid solar cells, solar powered biological fuel cells, heterojunction cells, multi-junction cells, and others. Also, the fabrication methods are described. Further, the electrolytes, membranes, and catalysts used there are detailed. The section that is dealing with rechargeable batteries explains the types of rechargeable devices, such as aluminum-based batteries, zinc batteries, magnesium batteries, and lithium batteries. Materials that are used for cathodes, anodes and electrolytes are detailed. The text focuses on the basic issues and also the literature of the past decade. Beyond education, this book may serve the needs of polymer specialists as well as other specialists, e.g., materials scientists, electrochemical engineers, etc., who have only a passing knowledge of these issues, but need to know more.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Preface

Chapter 1: Fuel Cells

1.1 Conventional Fuel Cells

1.2 Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

1.3 Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells

1.4 Direct Formate Fuel Cells

1.5 Direct Urea Fuel Cells

1.6 Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems

1.7 Biological Fuel Cells

References

Chapter 2: Polymer Electrodes

2.1 Porous Electrode Substrate

2.2 Electrode Assembly for Solid Polymer Fuel Cell

2.3 Electrode for Fuel Cell

2.4 Flow-Field Plate

2.5 Catalyst for Fuel Electrode

2.6 Electrode Catalyst and Solid Polymer Fuel Cell

2.7 Membrane Electrode Assembly

Chapter 3: Polymer Membranes

3.1 History

3.2 Desired Properties of Membranes

3.3 Types of Membrane Materials

3.4 Fabrication

3.5 Degradation

Chapter 4: Solar Cells

4.1 History

4.2 Types of Solar Cells

4.3 Solar Cell Efficiency

4.4 Fabrication Methods

4.5 Silver Nanoplates and Core-Shell Nanoparticles

4.6 Vanadium Oxide Hydrate as Hole-Transport Layer

4.7 Graphene Quantum Dot-Modified Electrodes

4.8 Enhancing Thermal Stability by Electron Beam Irradiation

4.9 Inverted Polymer Solar Cell

4.10 Single-Junction Polymer Solar Cells

4.11 Medium-Bandgap Polymer Donor

4.12 Flexible Polymer Solar Cells

4.13 PCPDTBT

4.14 Extended Storage Life

4.15 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

4.16 Direct Arylation Polymerization

4.17 Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells

4.18 Functionalized Poly(thiophene)

4.19 Fullerene

4.20 Transparent Window Materials

4.21 Solar Cell Encapsulants

4.22 Anti-reflection Coating

4.23 Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells

Chapter 5: Rechargeable Batteries

5.1 Aluminium Batteries

5.2 Zinc Batteries

5.3 Sodium Batteries

5.4 Magnesium Batteries

5.5 Lithium Batteries

Index

Acronyms.

Chemicals

General Index

End User License Agreement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119480112

1119480116

9781119480068

111948006X

9781119480143

1119480140

OCLC:

1010692304