Molecular Devices for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage

✍ Scribed by Haining Tian,Gerrit Boschloo,Anders Hagfeldt (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 539
• Series: Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book shows the different molecular devices used for solar energy conversion and storage and the important characterization techniques for this kind of device. It has five chapters describing representative molecule-based solar cells, such as organic solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells and hybrid solar cells (perovskite solar cell and quantum dots solar cells). It also includes two chapters demonstrating the use of molecular devices in the areas of solar fuel, water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction. There are further two chapters with interesting examples of solar energy storage related devices, like solar flow battery, solar capacitor and solar energy-thermal energy storage. Three chapters introduce important techniques used to characterize, investigate and evaluate the mechanism of molecular devices. The final chapter discusses the stability of perovskite solar cells. This book is relevant for a wide readership, and is particularly useful for students, researchers and industrial professionals who are working on molecular devices for solar energy utilization.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Small Molecule Solar Cells (Tobias Moench, Christian Koerner, Caroline Murawski, Jan Murawski, Vasileios Christos Nikolis, Koen Vandewal et al.)....Pages 1-43
Polymer Solar Cells (Youyu Jiang, Yaowen Li, Jinhui Tong, Lin Mao, Yinhua Zhou, Fengling Zhang)....Pages 45-108
Liquid Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (Haining Tian, Lars Kloo)....Pages 109-149
Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (Jinbao Zhang, Marina Freitag, Anders Hagfeldt, Gerrit Boschloo)....Pages 151-185
Hybrid Organic/Inorganic and Perovskite Solar Cells (Azhar Fakharuddin, Lukas Schmidt-Mende)....Pages 187-227
Light-Driven Water Splitting in the Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrosynthesis Cell (Leila Alibabaei, M. Kyle Brennaman, Thomas J. Meyer)....Pages 229-257
Light-Driven Carbon Dioxide Reduction Devices (Takeshi Morikawa, Shunsuke Sato, Takeo Arai)....Pages 259-280
Photobatteries and Photocapacitors (Nick Vlachopoulos, Anders Hagfeldt)....Pages 281-325
Molecular Solar-Thermal Energy Storage: Molecular Design and Functional Devices (Anders Lennartson, Kasper Moth-Poulsen)....Pages 327-352
Impedance Spectroscopy in Molecular Devices (Francisco Fabregat-Santiago, Eva M. Barea, Sixto Giménez, Juan Bisquert)....Pages 353-384
Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy in Molecular Devices for Solar Energy Conversion (Leif Hammarström, Reiner Lomoth, Carlito S. Ponseca Jr., Pavel Chábera, Jens Uhlig, Villy Sundström)....Pages 385-432
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy for Understanding Molecular and Hybrid Solar Cells (Ute B. Cappel, Valeria Lanzilotto, Erik M. J. Johansson, Tomas Edvinsson, Håkan Rensmo)....Pages 433-476
Stability of Molecular Devices: Halide Perovskite Solar Cells (Yegraf Reyna, Amador Pérez-Tomás, Alba Mingorance, Mónica Lira-Cantú)....Pages 477-531

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy