Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy

Quan Li, Ph.D., is Director of Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory at the Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University, where he is also Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. He has directed research projects funded by US Air Force Research Laboratory, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, US Army Research Office, US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, US National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ohio Third Frontier, Samsung Electronics etc. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Shanghai, where he was promoted to the youngest Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry in February of 1998. He was a recipient of CAS One-Hundred Talents Award (BeiRenJiHua) in 1999. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany. He has also won Kent State University Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award. Li has edited three Wiley books and three Springer books in the past five years, and is the invited author of the entry "Liquid Crystals" for Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia and "Gold Nanorods" for Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science.

From the Contents: Thermoelectric Nanomaterials for Thermal Energy Conversion.- Electrochromic Nanomaterials for Energy Efficient Windows.- Piezoelectric Nanomaterials for Mechanical Energy Harvesting.- Nanomaterials for Solar Cells.