Next-Generation Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion covers the most recent advances in materials science and engineering in providing sustainable ways of converting and storing energy. It includes coverage of both electrical energy storage materials (such as batteries, supercapacitors, and metal hydrides) and thermal energy storage materials (such as phase-change materials). Advanced batteries, including lithium-ion batteries, electrochemical lithium batteries, and solid-state batteries, are critical for powering electric vehicles and managing renewable generation on the electricity grid. Fuel cells are effective in converting fuels into electricity and heat, making them useful for various applications, such as electric vehicles, household power generation, and electrical grid management. Hydrogen storage materials offer reversible hydrogen stores for a sustainable clean energy supply in future energy systems. However, we are yet to fully exploit the potential of these technologies and proposed devices. This book provides a crucial perspective on the potential of next-generation materials to provide sustainable ways of converting and storing energy.
1. Introduction to Next-Generation Materials for Energy Storage and
Conversion
2. Thermal energy storage performance and thermal reliability analysis of
phase change material
3. Solar to thermal energy storage performance of phase change material
4. Concentrated Solar Power Technologies with Different Heat Transfer Fluid
and Thermal Energy Storage
5. Enhancing Solar Still Productivity with Advanced PCM Integration
Strategies
6. Novel solarbiomass integrated energy system for clean electricity and
liquid hydrogen production
7. Waste energy recovery system with hydrogen as an energy storage system
8. Catalytic Production of Fuels Using Solar and Electrical Energy
9. Fuel Cell Technology for Efficient Energy Storage and Conversion
10. Challenges, prospects and potential future orientation of hydrogen
aviation
11. Thermodynamic modeling of co-electrolysis at cell, stack and system
levels
12. Solar Cells Technology Materials for Solar Flow Battery
13. Design / Synthesis of Battery Materials
14. Analyzing thermal performance of EV lithium-ion batteries
15. Advances in efficient cathode material for the non-aqueous rechargeable
iron-ion battery
16. Energy, Exergy and sustainability (2ES) and thermohydraulic analysis of
an energy conversion systems
17. Perspective of Nanofluids as Heat Transfer Fluid
18. Waste incineration and heat recovery hybridized with low-focus Fresnel
lens solar collectors for sustainable multi-generation
19. Performance Assessment of a Small-scale Biogas-to-Ammonia System
20. Intelligent solar-driven multi-generation energy production/storage
system
21. Role of Machine Learning in Innovation and Design of Novel Materials for
Energy Storage and Conversion
Anoop Kumar Shukla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. His area of research is energy conversion and thermal management, phase change materials, combined power cycles, cogeneration, multigeneration, biofuels, and gas turbine cooling.
Rakesh Kumar Phanden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. His current areas of interest include nature-inspired optimization algorithms, energy-aware modeling of engineering systems and product design and manufacturing, friction stir welding, tool path generation and optimization, WEDM, hybrid power cycles, heat transfer in three dimensions, and nanomaterials.
Surbhi Sharma is an Associate Professor in the Centre for New Energy Transition Research, Federation University Gippsland, Churchill, Australia. Her research spans graphene oxide, nanostructured carbons, hybrid materials for fuel cells, Li-based batteries, biosensors, carbon resource upcycling, synthetic microbiology, and microbe-assisted electrocatalysts.
Navneet Soin is a Lecturer at Swinburne Graduate Research, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests cover nanomaterials, surface analysis, and energy applications, with expertise in electrochemical energy storage, materials engineering, and surface properties.
Prof. (Dr.) J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with over 35 years of experience in Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering. He holds multiple distinguished academic titles, including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a DSc from London Metropolitan University. He has published over 300 books and 600 articles, with more than 36,500 citations. He is ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University and holds leadership positions in numerous international journals, conferences, and research projects.
