Book description
In an age of global industrialisation and population growth, the area
of energy is one that is very much in the public consciousness.
Fundamental scientific research is recognised as being crucial to
delivering solutions to these issues, particularly to yield novel means
of providing efficient, ideally recyclable, ways of converting,
transporting and delivering energy.
This volume considers a selection of the state-of-the-art materials
that are being designed to meet some of the energy challenges we face
today. Topics are carefully chosen that show how the skill of the
synthetic chemist can be applied to allow the targeted preparation of
inorganic materials with properties optimised for a specific application.
Four chapters explore the key areas of:
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Polymer Electrolytes
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Advanced Inorganic Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
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Solar Energy Materials
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Hydrogen Adsorption on Metal Organic Framework Materials for
Storage Applications
Energy Materials provides both a summary of the current status of
research, and an eye to how future research may develop materials
properties further.
Additional volumes in the Inorganic Materials
Series:
Molecular Materials
Functional
Oxides
Porous Materials
Low-Dimensional Solids
Professor Duncan Bruce graduated from the
University of Liverpool (UK), where he also gained his PhD. In 1984,
he took up a Temporary Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at the
University of Sheffield and was awarded a Royal Society Warren
Research Fellowship. He was then appointed Lecturer in Chemistry and
was promoted Senior Lecturer in 1994, in which year he became
co-director of the Sheffield Centre for Molecular Materials. In 1995,
he was appointed Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of
Exeter. Following the closure of Exeter's chemistry department in
2005, Professor Bruce took up his present position as Professor of
Materials Chemistry in York. He is currently Chair of the Royal
Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry Forum. His current research
interests include liquid crystals and nanoparticle-doped,
nanostructured, mesoporous silicates. His work has been recognized by
various awards including the British Liquid Crystal Society's first
Young Scientist prize and the RSC's Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship
and Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize. He has held visiting positions in
Australia, France, Japan and Italy.
Dr. Richard Walton, who was also formerly based in the
Department of Chemistry at the University of Exeter, now works in the
Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. His research
group works in the area of solid-state materials chemistry and has a
number of projects focusing upon the synthesis, structural
characterization and properties of inorganic materials.
Dermot O'Hare is Professor in the Chemistry Research Laboratory
at the University of Oxford. His research group has a wide range of
research interests. They all involve synthetic chemistry ranging from
organometallic chemistry to the synthesis of new microporous
solids.
Duncan Bruce and Dermot O'Hare have edited several
editions of "Inorganic Materials" published by John Wiley
& Sons Ltd.
