1st Edition
Energy Materials A Short Introduction to Functional Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
Chapter 1. Energy and Fuels
Chapter 2. Heterogeneous catalysts for fuel processing
Chapter 3. Electrocatalysts for energy provision
Chapter 4. Ionic conductors
Chapter 5. Materials for supercapacitors
Chapter 6. Functional materials for primary and rechargeable batteries
Chapter 7. An "artificial leaf": a dream of future viable energy provision concept?
Chapter 8. Materials for solar cell applications
Chapter 9. Transparent electron conductors
Chapter 10. Superconductors as energy materials
Chapter 11. Permanent magnets for motors and generators
Chapter 12. Materials for hydrogen fuel storage
Biography
Professor Aliaksandr Bandarenka is currently a professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He conducts research in the area of the physics of energy conversion and storage with the main research topics that include the design and implementation of functional materials for energy applications. The material design is based on various approaches using input from electrochemistry, solid-state physics, chemistry, and surface science and starts from model objects. Professor Bandarenka attended Belarusian State University. He earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry in 2002 and his PhD in 2005, working under the supervision of Dr. G.A. Ragoisha. After completing his PhD, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. In this role, he worked with Prof. H.J.M. Bouwmeester and Prof. B.A. Boukamp on the development of new proton-conducting electrolytes. In 2008, he moved to the Technical University of Denmark where he worked with Prof. I. Chorkendorff and Prof. J. Nørskov on electrocatalysis for energy conversion. In 2010-2014, he was a group leader at the Center for Electrochemical Sciences (Director: Prof. W. Schuhmann) at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He is the recipient of the Materials Science Award (2013) from the International Society of Electrochemistry and the National Ernst Haage Prize (2016) from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (Germany).
