Fiber-Shaped Energy Harvesting and Storage Devices (eBook)

This comprehensive book covers flexible fiber-shaped devices in the area of energy conversion and storage. The first part of the book introduces recently developed materials, particularly, various nanomaterials and composite materials based on nanostructured carbon such as carbon nanotubes and graphene, metals and polymers for the construction of fiber electrodes. The second part of the book focuses on two typical twisted and coaxial architectures of fiber-shaped devices for energy conversion and storage. The emphasis is placed on dye-sensitized solar cells, polymer solar cells, lithium-ion batteries, electrochemical capacitors and integrated devices. The future development and challenges of these novel and promising fiber-shaped devices are summarized in the final part.

This book is the first to introduce fiber-shaped electronic devices, which offer many fascinating advantages compared with the conventional planar structure. It is particularly designed to review the state-of-art developments in fiber-shaped devices for energy conversion and storage. The book will provide a valuable resource for researchers and students working in a wide variety of fields such as advanced materials, new energy, electrochemistry, applied physics, nanoscience and nanotechnology, and polymer science and engineering.

Huisheng Peng, PhD, is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and PI of the Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Huisheng Peng is currently a professor at the Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials at Fudan University. He received his B.E. in Polymer Materials at Donghua University, China in 1999, his M.S. in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics at Fudan University, China in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Tulane University, USA in 2006. He then worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining Fudan University in 2008. His research focuses on energy materials and devices. He has published over 110 papers and holds 22 national and international patents. He has received over twenty national and international awards including the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2014), DuPont Young Professor Award (2013), China Youth Science and Technology Award (2013), Distinguished Young Scientist Fund from National Natural Science Foundation of China (2012), Outstanding Young Scholar from the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee (2012), Shanghai Professor of Special Appointment (2011), Li Foundation Heritage Prize for Excellence in Creativity in USA (2010), Young Scientist Award from Chinese Chemical Society (2010), Shanghai Leading Talent from Shanghai Government (2010), Chinese Chemical Society-John Wiley Youth Chemical Paper Prize (2009), and New Century Talent of Chinese Ministry of Education (2009).