Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion

• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Polymers are increasingly finding applications in the areas of energy storage and conversion. A number of recent advances in the polymer molecular structure control thereby tuning of the polymer properties have led to these applications. This book assimilates these advances in the form of a comprehensive text which includes the synthesis and properties of a large number of polymer systems for applications in the areas of lithium batteries, photovoltaics, solar cells, etc.

Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion describes:

• PVAc-based polymer blend electrolytes for lithium batteries
• The structure and properties of polymer hydrogel with respect to its applications for low to intermediate temperature polymer electrolyte-based fuel cells
• Lithium polymer batteries based on ionic liquids
• Conjugated polymer-inorganic semiconductor composites
• The concept of the solar cell with the organic multiple quantum dots (MQDs)
• The solvent effects in polymer based organic photovoltaic devices
• The properties of the polymers which factor into their use for solar power both for niche applications as well as for large scale harvesting
• The use of macroporous organic polymers as materials for energy gas storage.

Content:
Chapter 1 High Performance Polymer Hydrogel Based Materials for Fuel Cells (pages 1–25): Yogeshwar Sahai and Jia Ma
Chapter 2 PVAc Based Polymer Blend Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries (pages 27–51): M. Ulaganathan, R. Nithya and S. Rajendran
Chapter 3 Lithium Polymer Batteries Based on Ionic Liquids (pages 53–101): S. Passerini, M. Montanino and G.B. Appetecchi
Chapter 4 Organic Quantum Dots Grown by Molecular Layer Deposition for Photovoltaics (pages 103–136): Tetsuzo Yoshimura
Chapter 5 Solvent Effects in Polymer Based Organic Photovoltaics (pages 137–161): Matthias A. Ruderer and Peter Muller?Buschbaum
Chapter 6 Polymer?Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells (pages 163–197): Ashish Dubey and Qiquan Qiao
Chapter 7 Semiconducting Polymer?based Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells (pages 199–214): Matthew Schuette White and Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
Chapter 8 Energy Gas Storage in Porous Polymers (pages 215–248): Joel Fawaz, Kean Wang and Ali Almansoori