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 theyll 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.
Part I Introduction
Part II Theoretic calculation for electrocatalytic energy conversion
1 Computational electrocatalysis models for energy conversion
2 Electrocatalytic reaction mechanism for energy conversion
3 Machine learning for energy conversion
Part III Advanced functional materials for hydrogen evolution reaction
(HER)
4 Metal-based materials for HER
5 Metallic compounds for HER
6 Carbon-based materials for HER
7 Porous materials for HER
Part IV Advanced functional materials for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)
8 Metal-based materials for ORR
9 Carbon-based materials for ORR
10 Porous materials for ORR
Part V Advanced functional materials for oxygen evolution reaction (OER)
11 Metal-based materials for OER
12 Metallic compounds for OER
13 Porous materials for OER
Part VI Advanced functional materials for CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR)
14 Cu-based metal materials for CO2RR
15 Non-Cu metal-based materials for CO2RR
16 Carbon-based materials for CO2RR
17 Porous materials for CO2RR
18 Other materials for CO2RR
Part VII Advanced functional materials for N2 reduction reaction (NRR)
19 Metal-based materials for NRR
20 Carbon-based materials for NRR
21 Porous materials for NRR
Part VIII Advanced functional materials for liquid fuel oxidation (LFO)
22 Metal-based materials for LFO
23 Non-noble metal-based materials for LFO
24 Other materials for LFO
Part IX Advanced functional materials for electrocatalytic biomass
conversion
25 Metal-based materials for electrocatalytic biomass conversion
26 Porous materials for electrocatalytic biomass conversion
Part X Summary and outlook
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.
