Energy Storage And Conversion: Development Of Materials For Energy Storage And Conversion Devices

The increasing global population and energy consumption have led to a rapid rise in the usage of fossil fuels in recent years. Consequently, there has been a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, which had detrimental effects on aquatic and animal life as well as the ecosystem. To address this problem, efficient energy storage and conversion devices with no greenhouse gas emissions, such as batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells, are becoming popular. The development of suitable materials is essential for making efficient energy storage and conversion devices. Thus, this book is organized to highlight significant breakthroughs in energy storage and conversion systems, focusing on material development. This book includes 12 researches. For energy storage devices, material research on lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitor is described. Studies on solar cells and solid oxide fuel cells for energy conversion devices are also revealed. Additionally, phase change materials are also introduced as a different type of energy storage devices. This book will make a substantial contribution in developing efficient energy storage and conversion devices.

KOTOBUKI Masashi is a distinguished professor at the Battery Research Center of Green Energy, Ming Chi University of Technology in Taiwan. He earned his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Yamanashi in Japan in 2006. Over his career, he has held several significant academic positions, including Senior Research Fellow and Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Associate Professor at Hakodate National College of Technology in Japan, Assistant Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, and Researcher at Ulm University in Germany. Since August 2021, he has been leading research efforts at Ming Chi University of Technology, focusing on the development of next-generation lithium batteries, post-lithium batteries, solid electrolytes, anion batteries, electrode materials, and separator materials. With a prolific publication record that includes 98 journal articles, 12 review articles, and 7 books, his research has received wide recognition, amassing 5336 citations and an h-index of 34.