Materials for Energy Conversion Devices is a comprehensive survey of major new developments in energy conversion devices, with contributions from an international group of leading innovators.

Features:

• Provides detailed coverage of solar energy and thermoelectric conversion
• Offers a comprehensive survey of new developments in this exciting field
• Presents contributions from an international team of authors edited by leading experts in the field

Contents

Materials for photoelectrochemical devices

• Photoelectrochemical kinetics
• Photoelectrochemical wet solar cells for electricity generation
• Photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) for hydrogen production
• Photoconversion efficiency of HPPEC
• Some criteria of suitable semiconductor photoelectrodes for efficient water-splitting

Photosensitive materials

• Absorption and transport by same materials
• Absorption and transport separated
• Particle size determines properties
• Molecular dynamics determine properties
• Major material research challenges for photon energy conversion

Materials for solar cells

• Present market status
• Bulk silicon
• Thin-film silicon
• Halcogenide-based cells
• Dye-sensitised cells
• Organic and plastic cells

Defect chemistry of ternary oxides

• Defect chemistry background
• Determination of stoichiometry
• Defect chemistry modeling

Introduction to Thermoelectricity

• Thermodynamics of thermoelectric device
• Microscopic theory of thermoelectric phenomena
• Thermoelectric materials
• Oxide thermoelectrics

The measurement of thermoelectricity

• Seebeck coefficient
• Electrical resisitivity
• Thermal conductivity
• Simple evaluation of Z for module

Interface mass transport in oxide materials

• Characterisation of defects in oxide ceramics by Positron Annihilation Lifetime
• Spectroscopy
• Mass transport in polycrystalline oxides

Surface properties of ionic conductors

• Surfaces, segregation and nanoscaling in solid electrolytes
• Electronic properties of solid electrolyte surfaces
• Electrode interfaces and electrode potential scale
• Index of used abbreviations and symbols

Fast ionic conductors

• Oxide ion conductors
• Flouride ion conductors
• Proton conductors
• Lithium ion conductors
• Sodium ion conductors
• Silver and copper ion conductors
• Amorphous ionic conductors for energy applications
• Ionic conduction mechanism of amorphous materials
• Amorphous materials used for lithium batteries. Amorphous proton conductors

Oxygen ionic conductor

• Fundamental features of oxygen ionic conductor
• Current status of ionic conductors
• Recent topics of typical oxygen ionic conductors

Solid oxide fuel cells

• Basics of SOFCS
• Component materials for SOFCs
• SOFC operation test and analysis for the reaction at the electrode/electrolyte interfaces
• Current status and future for the SOFC development

Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

• Efficiency of fuel cells
• Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFC)
• Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC) and micro fuel cells

Immobilisation of high-level radioactive waste from nuclear reactor fuel

• Generation of high level waste from nuclear fuel
• Historical waste form development for reprocessing HLW
• Candidate waste forms and disposition schemes
• Inert matrix fuels
• Geological disposal

Solid-state electrochemical gas sensors for emission control

• Stabilized Zirconia-based gas sensors

Index

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