1st Edition
Smart and Flexible Energy Devices
The scientific community and industry have seen tremendous progress in efficient energy production and storage in the last few years. With the advancement in technology, new devices require high-performance, stretchable, bendable, and twistable energy sources, which can be integrated into next-generation wearable, compact, and portable electronics for medical, military, and civilian applications.
Smart and Flexible Energy Devices examines the materials, basic working principles, and state-of-the-art progress of flexible devices like fuel cells, solar cells, batteries, and supercapacitors. Covering the synthesis approaches for advanced energy materials in flexible devices and fabrications and fundamental design concepts of flexible energy devices, such as fuel cells, solar cells, batteries, and supercapacitors, top author teams explore how newer materials with advanced properties are used to fabricate the energy devices to meet the future demand for flexible electronics.
Additional features include:
• Addressing the materials, technologies, and challenges of various flexible energy devices under one cover
• Emphasizing the future demand and challenges of the field
• Considering all flexible energy types, such as fuel cells, solar cells, batteries, and supercapacitors
• Suitability for undergraduate and postgraduate students of material science and energy programs
This is a valuable resource for academics and industry professionals working in the field of energy materials, nanotechnology, and energy devices.
Chapter 1 Smart and Flexible Energy Devices: Principles, Advances, and Opportunities
Tenzin Ingsel and Ram K. Gupta
Chapter 2 Innovation in Materials and Design for Flexible Energy Devices
Ayushi Katariya and Jyoti Rani
Chapter 3 Basics and Architectural Aspects of Flexible Energy Devices
T. Bendib, M. A. Abdi, H. Bencherif, and F. Meddour
Chapter 4 Characterization Techniques of Flexible Energy Devices
Endersh Soni, Ujjwal K. Prajapati, Ayushi Katariya, and Jyoti Rani
Chapter 5 Micro- and Nanofibers-Based Flexible Energy Devices
Arunima Reghunadhan, Jiji Abraham, and P. S. Sari
Chapter 6 3D Printed Flexible Energy Devices
Dongxu He and Zheling Li
Chapter 7 Environmental Impact of Flexible Energy Devices
H. Bencherif, A. Meddour, T. Bendib, and M. A. Abdi
Chapter 8 Metal Oxide-Based Catalysts for Flexible and Portable Fuel Cells: Current Status and Future Prospects
Bincy George Abraham, S. Vinod Selvaganesh, Raghuram Chetty, and P. Dhanasekaran
Chapter 9 Flexible Fuel Cells Based on Microbes
Hamide Ehtesabi
Chapter 10 Flexible Silicon Photovoltaic Solar Cells
Pratik Deorao Shende, Krishna Nama Manjunatha, Iulia Salarou, and Shashi Paul
Chapter 11 Flexible Solar Cells Based on Metal Oxides
Soner Çakar, Mahmut Özacar, and Fehim Findik
Chapter 12 Inorganic Materials for Flexible Solar Cells
Mozhgan Hosseinnezhad and Zahra Ranjbar
Chapter 13 Efficient Metal Oxide-Based Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells
Subhash Chander and Surya Kant Tripathi
Chapter 14 Flexible Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides
Kulwinder Kaur, Nisika, and Mukesh Kumar
Chapter 15 Perovskite-based Flexible Solar Cells
Rushi Jani and Kshitij Bhargava
Chapter 16 Quantum Dots Based Flexible Solar Cells
Sandeep Kumar, Prashant Kumar, Arup Mahapatra, and Basudev Pradhan
Chapter 17 A Method of Strategic Evaluation for Perovskite-Based Flexible Solar Cells
Figen Balo and Lutfu S. Sua
Chapter 18 Flexible Batteries Based on Li-ion
Solen Kinayyigit and Emre Bicer
Chapter 19 Flexible Batteries Based on Na-ion
Jun Mei
Chapter 20 Flexible Batteries Based on K-ion
Yu Liu, Yuzhen Sun, Zhiyuan Zhao, Xiaowei Yang, and Rong Xing
Chapter 21 Flexible Batteries Based on Zn-ion
Haobo Dong, Ivan P. Parkin, and Guanjie He
Chapter 22 Fabrication Techniques for Wearable Batteries
Ifra Marriam, Hiran Chathuranga, Cheng Yan, Mike Tebyetekerwa, and
Shengyuan Yang
Chapter 23 Carbon-Based Advanced Flexible Supercapacitors
Anuj Kumar and Ram K. Gupta
Chapter 24 2D Materials for Flexible Supercapacitors
Wei Ni and Lingying Shi
Chapter 25 Flexible Supercapacitors Based on Metal Oxides
Haradhan Kolya, Chun-Won Kang, Sarbaranjan Paria, Subhadip Mondal, and Changwoon Nah
Chapter 26 Recent Advances in Transition Metal Chalcogenides for Flexible Supercapacitors
Somoprova Halder, Souhardya Bera, and Subhasis Roy
Chapter 27 MOFs-Derived Metal Oxides-Based Compounds for Flexible Supercapacitors
Charu Goyal, Anuj Kumar, Ghulam Yasin, and Ram K. Gupta
Chapter 28 Textile-Based Flexible Supercapacitors
Yasin Altin and Ayse Bedeloglu
Chapter 29 Current Development and Challenges in Textile-Based Flexible Supercapacitors
Sunny R. Gurav, Rajendra G. Sonkawade, Maqsood R. Waikar, Akash S. Rasal, and Rakesh K. Sonker
Chapter 30 Flexible Supercapacitors Based on Nanocomposites
Fang Cheng, Xiaoping Yang, Wen Lu, and Liming Dai
Chapter 31 Textile-Based Flexible Nanogenerators
Ünsal Ömer Faruk Çelik Bedeloğlu Ayşe, and Borazan İsmail
Biography
Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor at Pittsburg State University. Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on conducting polymers and composites, green energy production and storage using biowastes and nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic hetero-junctions for sensors, bio-based polymers, flame-retardant polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, corrosion inhibiting coatings, and bio-degradable metallic implants. Dr. Gupta has published over 230 peer-reviewed articles, made over 280 national, international, and regional presentations, chaired many sessions at national/international meetings, edited many books, and written several book chapters. He has received over two and a half million dollars for research and educational activities from many funding agencies. He is serving as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, and editorial board member of numerous journals.
Tuan Anh NGUYEN has completed his BSc in Physics from Hanoi University in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Paris Diderot University (France) in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University (South Korea, 2004) and the University of Wollongong (Australia, 2005). He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate & Research Scientist at Montana State University (USA), 2006-2009. In 2012, he was appointed as Head of Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology). He has managed 4 Ph.D. theses as thesis director and 3 are in progress; He is Editor-In-Chief of "Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience" and Founding Co-Editor-In-Chief of "Current Nanotoxicity & Prevention". He is the author of 4 Vietnamese books and Editor of 32 Elsevier books in the Micro & Nano Technologies Series.