Metals As Clean Fuels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Detsi, Eric.

Contributor:

DeHosson, Jeff Th. M.

Series:

Acta Materialia Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy conversion.

Materials science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chantilly : Elsevier, 2025.

Summary:

This book explores the potential of metals as clean and sustainable fuels, emphasizing their role in energy conversion and storage. Authored by leading experts in materials science, it delves into the principles of metal fuel technology, including activation methods, nanoporous structures, and reaction mechanisms. The text provides a comprehensive overview of experimental techniques, synthesis processes, and practical applications of nanoporous metals like zinc and aluminum. It highlights advances in dealloying processes, energy production, and the environmental benefits of using metals as alternative fuels. Targeted at researchers, academics, and professionals in materials science and engineering, the book serves as a valuable resource for understanding innovative approaches to energy sustainability and fuel technology. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Front Cover

Metals as Clean Fuels

Acta Materialia Book Series

Copyright

Contents

About the authors

Preface

Acknowledgments

One - How metal fuels work

1.1 Overview

1.2 Why use metals as clean fuels?

1.3 A key challenge with metal fuels

1.4 Working principle of batteries

1.5 Working principle of dry metal fuels

1.6 Working principle of wet metal fuels

References

Two - Activation of metal fuels

2.1 Overview

2.2 Chemical activation of metal fuels using catalysts

2.3 Chemical activation of metal fuels using reaction promoters

2.4 Activation of metal fuels by nanostructuring

2.5 Thermal activation of metal fuels and their drawbacks

Three - Fundamentals of dealloying

3.1 Overview

3.2 Nanoporosity formation via a spinodal decomposition pathway

3.3 Background and current state of the field

3.4 Chemical and electrochemical reaction mechanisms in dealloying

3.4.1 Free corrosion dealloying in aqueous solutions

3.4.2 Electrolytic dealloying in aqueous solutions

3.4.3 Air-free electrolytic dealloying in anhydrous organic electrolytes

3.4.4 Vacuum thermal dealloying

3.4.5 pH-controlled dealloying

3.4.6 Dealloying by galvanic replacement

3.4.7 Dealloying by reduction-induced decomposition

3.4.8 Dealloying by thermal decomposition

3.4.9 Liquid metal dealloying

3.5 Conclusions

Four - Monolithic bulk nanoporous zinc by free corrosion dealloying

4.1 Overview

4.2 Fundamental barriers to the synthesis of nanoporous zinc by dealloying

4.3 Chemical reaction mechanisms for the synthesis of nanoporous zinc by free corrosion dealloying

4.4 Synthesis of metastable Zn20Al80 at. % parent alloy

4.5 Synthesis of monolithic bulk nanoporous Zn by free corrosion dealloying.

4.6 Enhanced reactivity of monolithic nanoporous Zn fuel with water as the oxidizer

4.7 Conclusions

Five - Rapid synthesis of nanoporous zinc in powder form by free corrosion dealloying

5.1 Overview

5.2 Dealloyed nanoporous systems

5.3 Experimental methods

5.3.1 Dealloying

5.3.2 Characterization

5.3.3 Hydrogen generation

5.4 Nanoporous zinc powder by free corrosion dealloying

5.5 Enhanced reactivity of nanoporous Zn powder fuel with water as the oxidizer

5.6 Conclusions

Further reading

Six - Monolithic bulk nanoporous aluminum by air-free electrolytic dealloying with recovery of sacrificial materials

6.1 Overview

6.2 Experimental methods

6.3 Characterization of the Al30Mg70 parent alloy

6.4 Synthesis and characterization of monolithic bulk nanoporous Al by air-free electrolytic dealloying with recovery of sacrif ...

6.5 Enhanced reactivity of monolithic nanoporous Al fuel with water as the oxidizer

6.6 Conclusions

Seven - Rapid synthesis of nanoporous aluminum powder by air-free electrolytic dealloying with recovery of sacrific ...

7.1 Overview

7.2 Rapid synthesis of nanoporous Al powder by air-free electrolytic dealloying with recovery of sacrificial Mg

7.3 Enhanced reactivity of nanoporous Al powder fuel with water as the oxidizer

7.4 Complete conversion of NP-Al into hydrogen gas, Al(OH)3, and heat

7.5 Conversion of Al(OH)3 into activated alumina η-Al2O3 with high specific surface area

7.6 Search for new electrolytes for the fabrication of ultrafine nanoporous Al

7.7 Conclusions

Eight - Nanoporous tri-layer of similar elements by etching without sacrificing materials through the Kirkendall effect

8.1 Overview.

8.1.1 Nanoporous layers and Kirkendall effect

8.2 Experimental methods

8.2.1 Sample preparation

8.2.2 Materials characterization

8.3 Results and discussion

8.3.1 Electrochemical plating and stripping of AgCl on a substrate

8.3.2 Partially porous structures by electrochemical plating and stripping of AgCl on thick Ag foil

8.3.3 Fully porous structures by electrochemical plating and stripping of AgCl on thin Ag foils

8.3.3.1 Proof-of-concept: Tri-layer nanoporous Ag | Ag | Ag by electrochemical plating and stripping on a thin Ag substrate

8.3.3.2 Effect of temperature on the morphology of the tri-layer NP Ag | Ag | Ag during electrochemical plating and stripping

8.3.4 Model for NP metal formation via electrochemical plating and stripping in combination with the Kirkendall effect

8.4 Conclusions

Appendix 8.A

Nine - Nanoporous tri-layer of dissimilar elements by etching without sacrificing materials through the Kirkendall ...

9.1 Overview

9.2 Dissimilar nanoporous metal layers

9.3 Experimental methods

9.3.1 Fabrication of freestanding tri-layer nanoporous Ag | Au | Ag film from a thin Au35Ag65 foil

9.3.2 Materials characterization

9.4 Results and discussion

9.4.1 Electrochemical plating-stripping model expanded to include Au

9.4.2 Electrochemical plating-stripping on a dense Au35Ag65 alloy precursor

9.4.3 Nanoporous silver | gold | silver tri-layer by electrochemical plating and stripping of AgCl on a thin Au35Ag65 substrate

9.4.4 Effect of dealloying temperature on the morphology of the tri-layer nanoporous silver | gold | silver during electrochemica ...

9.5 Conclusions

Appendix 9.A

Room temperature (25°C) synthesis of NP-Au-Ag tri-layer from an Au35Ag65 substrate.

Ice water bath (0°C) synthesis of NP-Au-Ag tri-layer from an Au35Ag65 substrate

Ten - Porous structures and their geometric and topological characteristics

10.1 Overview

10.2 Structural analysis

10.3 Integral geometry: Theory

10.3.1 Image measurements

10.3.2 Minkowski addition and subtraction

10.3.3 Parallel sets in Euclidean space

10.3.4 Convex sets and Minkowski functionals

10.3.5 Relation to topology and di erential geometry

10.3.6 Application to images

10.4 Integral geometry in practice

10.4.1 Minkowski functionals

10.4.2 Analysis of point patterns

10.4.3 Analysis of digitized and threshold images

10.4.4 What integral geometry is incapable of doing

10.4.5 Reducing digitization errors

10.4.6 Normalization of image functionals

10.5 Topology of periodic porous structures

10.6 Topology of aperiodic porous structures

10.6.1 Computation of 3D Minkowski functionals

10.6.2 Examples

10.7 Conclusions

Appendix 10.A: Noise and artifacts

Appendix 10.B: Algorithm

Appendix 10.C: Programming example (Fortran 90)

Index

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

0-443-13540-1

OCLC:

1525193053