Metals As Clean Fuels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Detsi, Eric.

Contributor:

DeHosson, Jeff Th. M.

ScienceDirect (Online service)

Series:

Acta Materialia Book 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.

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.

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)

Further reading

Index

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

0443135401

9780443135408

Publisher Number:

90104033147

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