Description
Book SynopsisEnergy production and storage are central problems for our time. In principle, abundant energy is available from the sun to run the earth in a sustainable way. Solar energy can be directly harnessed by agricultural and photovoltaic means, but the sheer scale of the energy demand poses severe challenges, for example any major competition between biomass production and food production would simply transfer scarcity from energy to food. Indirect use of solar energy in the form of wind looks also promising, especially for those regions not blessed with abundant sunlight. Other modes such as tidal and wave energy may well become important niche players.
Inorganic chemistry plays a decisive role in the development of new energy technologies and this Volume covers some promising modes of alternative energy production and storage that minimize the atmospheric burden of fossil-derived carbon monoxide. No one production or storage mode is likely to dominate, at least at first, and numerous
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Table of Contents
Contributors.
Series Preface.
Volume Preface.
PART 1: ENERGY PRODUCTION.
H2 Production from Renewables (Rufino M. Navarro, M. Cruz Sanchez-Sanchez, M. Consuelo Alvarez-Galvan, Jose Luis G. Fierro and Saeed M. Al-Zaharani).
Energy Conversion in Photosynthesis (Gozde Ulas and Gary W. Brudvig).
Molecular Catalysts for Oxygen Production from Water (Antoni Llobet and Sophie Romain).
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: an Overview (Luisa Andrade, Helena Aguilar Ribeiro and Adelio Mendes).
Enzymes and Microbes for Energy Production by Fuel Cells (Frederic Barriere).
Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells (Ram Devanathan).
Methane-to-Methanol Conversion (Brian G. Hashiguchi, Claas H. H¨ovelmann, Steven M. Bischof, Kapil S. Lokare, Chin Hin Leung and Roy A. Periana).
Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Water (Shamindri M. Arachchige and Karen J. Brewer).
Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (Alan Atkinson, John Kilner, Stephen Skinner, Nigel P. Brandon and Dan J. L. Brett).
Some Computational Challenges in Energy Research (Victor S. Batista).
Toward Solar Fuels Using a Biomimetic Approach: Progress in the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis (Sascha Ott, Stenbj¨orn Styring, Leif Hammarstr¨om and Olof Johansson).
Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells (Zhi Wen Chia and Jim Yang Lee).
Molecular Catalysis for Fuel Cells (Kenichi Oyaizu).
Recent Advances in Photo-Initiated Electron-Transfer at the Interface between Anatase TiO2 Nanocrystallites and Transition-Metal Polypyridyl Compounds (Shane Ardo and Gerald J. Meyer).
Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Alcohols (Robert H. Crabtree).
PART 2: ENERGY STORAGE.
Hydrogen Economy (Stephen A. Wells, Asel Sartbaeva, Vladimir L. Kuznetsov and Peter P. Edwards).
Thermal Stability of Lithium Ion Battery Electrolytes (Brett L. Lucht, Tippawan Markmaitree and Li Yang).
Supercapacitors: Electrode Materials Aspects (Li Li Zhang, Zhibin Lei, Jintao Zhang, Xiaoning Tian and Xiu Song Zhao).
Thermochemical Water-Splitting (Ali T-Raissi).
Lithium Ion Batteries for Transportation and Electrical Energy Storage Applications: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Structure and Function (Jordi Cabana and Clare P. Grey).
Index.
