Low-Grade Heat Harvesting (eBook)

Xiaogang Zhang is Professor of Chemistry in College of Material Science and Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Director of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Lanzhou University in 2001. His current research interests include the design and development of nanostructured composites and their applications in energy storage and conversion. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed articles in international journals with H index of 99.

Chapter 1 Backgrounds and Principles of Low-Grade Heat Harvesting
Chapter 2 Conventional Thermoelectric Devices for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting
Chapter 3 Polymer-Based Thermoelectric Devices for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting
Chapter 4 Liquid-Based Thermocells for Heat-to-Current Conversion
Chapter 5 Thermosensitive Thermocells for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting
Chapter 6 Wearable Power Generation via Thermoelectrochemical Devices
Chapter 7 Thermoelectric Ionogel for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting
Chapter 8 Alkali Metal Thermal Electrochemical Converter
Chapter 9 Thermally Regenerative Electrochemical Cycle and other Techniques
Chapter 10 Integration of Energy Conversion and Storage Devices