Functional Materials for Electrocatalytic Energy Conversion (eBook)

Build the energy sources of the future with these advanced materials

The search for clean and sustainable energy sources capable of meeting global needs is the defining challenge of the current era. Renewable sources point the way forward, but their intrinsic instability creates an increased urgency for the development of large-scale energy storage systems comprised of stable, durable materials. An understanding of functional materials of this kind and the catalytic processes in which they'll necessarily be incorporated has never been more essential.

Functional Materials for Electrocatalytic Energy Conversion provides a systematic overview of these materials and their role in electrocatalytic conversion processes. Covering all major energy-producing reactions, as well as preparation methods and physiochemical properties of specific materials, it constitutes a major contribution to the global renewable-energy project.

Functional Materials for Electrocatalytic Energy Conversion readers will also find:

• Guidance for the design and construction of functional materials
• Detailed treatment of reaction processes including hydrogen evolution, oxygen reduction, oxygen evolution, and many more
• Critical discussion of cutting-edge processes still under development, such as liquid fuel oxidation and oxygen reduction

Functional Materials for Electrocatalytic Energy Conversion is ideal for materials scientists, electrochemists, catalytic chemists, and any other researchers working with energy conversion and storage.

Zhicheng Zhang, PhD, is Professor at Tianjin University, China. He has previously worked as a postdoctoral research university at Tsinghua University, China, and a senior research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research focuses on functional metal-based nanomaterials and their energy catalysis applicatios, and he serves as the associate editor of SmartMat, among others.

Meiting Zhao, PhD, is Professor at Tianjin University, China. He has previously worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and his research concerns the design, synthesis, and applications of various functional materials in selective catalysis and energy conversion.

Yuchen Qin, PhD, is Professor at Henan Agricultural University, China. He has previously worked as an engineer in the Sinopec engineering group, Luoyang Research and Development Center of Technologies. His research focuses on the geometric and electronic structure of functional metal-based nanomaterials.