Sustainable Material Solutions for Solar Energy Technologies: Processing Techniques and Applications provides an overview of challenges that must be addressed to efficiently utilize solar energy. The book explores novel materials and device architectures that have been developed to optimize energy conversion efficiencies and minimize environmental impacts. Advances in technologies for harnessing solar energy are extensively discussed, with topics including materials processing, device fabrication, sustainability of materials and manufacturing, and current state-of-the-art. Leading…mehr
Sustainable Material Solutions for Solar Energy Technologies: Processing Techniques and Applications provides an overview of challenges that must be addressed to efficiently utilize solar energy. The book explores novel materials and device architectures that have been developed to optimize energy conversion efficiencies and minimize environmental impacts. Advances in technologies for harnessing solar energy are extensively discussed, with topics including materials processing, device fabrication, sustainability of materials and manufacturing, and current state-of-the-art. Leading international experts discuss the applications, challenges, and future prospects of research in this increasingly vital field, providing a valuable resource for students and researchers working in this field.
Mariana Amorim Fraga is a Visiting Professor at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP, Brazil. She has published 48 articles in SCI journals, 14 book chapters and 3 edited books. Her research interests are in the materials science and engineering areas, mainly in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for the development of sensors, electronic devices and energy technologies She serves as an editorial board member of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Smart Materials in Medicine, Materials Research Express and Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of SPIE and ACS.
Delaina Amos received a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1989. She later obtained a MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California Berkley in 1992 and 1996 where she was both a GEM MS fellow and among the first class of GEM Engineering PhD Fellows. After completing a one-year industrial post-doctoral assignment at Eastman Kodak, Dr. Amos joined the research staff at Eastman Kodak in 1997. Dr. Amos held a variety of roles at Kodak including research scientist, R&D team leader, technical liaison, and intellectual property co-leader. While at Kodak, work that she was involved in went into creating the new platform of pigment-based inks for the Kodak consumer printer lines. Dr. Amos joined the faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Louisville in June 2010 as an Associate Professor.
Inhaltsangabe
Section I - Trends in materials development for solar energy applications
1. Bismuth-based nanomaterials for energy applications
2. Emergent materials and concepts for solar cell applications
3. Novel dielectrics compounds grown by atomic layer deposition as sustainable materials for chalcogenides thin-films photovoltaics technologies
4. First principles methods for solar energy harvesting materials
Section II - Sustainable materials for photovoltaics
5. Introduction to photovoltaics and alternative materials for silicon in photovoltaic energy conversion
6. An overview on ferroelectric photovoltaic materials
7. Nanostructured materials for high efficiency solar cells
8. Crystalline-silicon heterojunction solar cells with graphene incorporation
9. Tin halide perovskites for efficient lead-free solar cells
Section III - Sustainable materials for photocatalysis and water splitting
10. Photocatalysis using bismuth-based heterostructured nanomaterials for visible light harvesting
11. Recent advances in 2D MXene-based heterostructured photocatalytic materials
12. Atomic layer deposition of materials for solar water splitting
Section IV - Sustainable materials for thermal energy systems
13. Solar selective coatings and materials for high-temperature solar thermal applications
14. Applications of wastes based on inorganic salts as low-cost thermal energy storage materials
15. Nanoencapsulated phase change materials for solar thermal energy storage
Section V - Sustainable carbon-based and biomaterials for solar energy applications
16. Carbon nanodot integrated solar energy devices
17. Solar cell based on carbon and graphene nanomaterials
18. Sustainable biomaterials for solar energy technologies
19. Bioinspired solar cells: contribution of biology to light harvesting systems
