Energy Materials

The special properties of inorganic materials can be used for a wide range of applications in electronics such as semiconductors, magnetic alloys, insulators, and optical and display materials. Energy Materials combines basic science with applications with up-to-date contributions from leading experts and editors with proven publication track records. This volume of Inorganic Materials looks at inorganic materials with special electronic properties and discusses polymer electrolytes, photonic crystals, low molar mass OLEDs, and polymer LEDs.

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.

Inorganic Materials Series Preface	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Polymer Electrolytes	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Context	p. 1
Polymer Electrolytes - The Early Years	p. 2
Nanocomposite Polymer Electrolytes	p. 8
Ionic Liquid Based Polymer Electrolytes	p. 13
Ionic Liquid Properties	p. 13
Ion Gels	p. 16
Polymer Electrolytes Based on Polymerisable Ionic Liquids	p. 18
Crystalline Polymer Electrolytes	p. 21
Crystalline Polymer: Salt Complexes	p. 22
References	p. 27
Advanced Inorganic Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells	p. 33
Introduction	p. 33
Conventional SOFC Electrolytes	p. 35
Conventional Anodes	p. 39
Conventional Cathodes	p. 40
Summary	p. 41
Next Generation SOFC Materials	p. 42
Novel Electrolyte Materials	p. 42
Novel Cathodes	p. 58
Ceramic and Sulfur Tolerant Anodes	p. 71
Materials Developments through Processing	p. 79
Proton Conducting Ceramic Fuel Cells	p. 81
Materials for Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (PC-SOFCs)	p. 81
Summary	p. 83
References	p. 83
Solar Energy Materials	p. 95
Introduction	p. 95
The Solar Spectrum	p. 95
The Photovoltaics Industry	p. 98
Terminology	p. 99
Development of PV Technology	p. 103
First Generation: Crystalline Silicon (c-Si)	p. 103
Second Generation: Thin-Film Technologies	p. 106
Third Generation: Nanotechnology/Electrochemical PVs	p. 118
Summary	p. 228
Acknowledgements	p. 230
References	p. 230
Hydrogen Adsorption on Metal Organic Framework Materials for Storage Applications	p. 245
Introduction	p. 245
Hydrogen Adsorption Experimental Methods	p. 248
Activation of MOFs	p. 249
Hydrogen Adsorption on MOFs	p. 251
Hydrogen Adsorption Capacity Studies	p. 257
Temperature Dependence of Hydrogen Physisorption	p. 260
Hydrogen Surface Interactions in Pores	p. 261
Framework Flexibility and Hysteretic Adsorption	p. 267
Comparison of Hydrogen and Deuterium Adsorption	p. 269
Conclusions	p. 271
Acknowledgements	p. 272
References	p. 272
Index	p. 283
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