Editor-in-Chief
Leonard C Feldman
Vice President of Physics Science and Engineering
Director of Institute of Advance Materials Development and Nanotechnology
Prof. Physics & Materials Science and Engineering
Rutgers University
607 Taylor Road; Rm. CCR 208
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8065
Phone: 732-445-4524; Fax: 732-445-3029
E-mail: l.c.feldman@rutgers.edu
Series Board Members
Jean–Luc Bredas
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chair in Molecular Design
Georgia Research AllianceEminent Scholar
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400
Richard Haight
Physical Sciences Department
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
PO Box 218
Yorktown Hts
N.Y. 1059
Angus Rockett
Professor and Associate Head
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of illinois
1304 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Eugene A. Fitzgerald
Merton C. Flemings-SMA Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge
MA 02139
Energy and sustainability are key words driving current science and technology. Concerns about the environment and the supply of fossil fuel have driven researchers to explore technological solutions seeking alternative means of energy supply and storage. New materials and material structures are at the very core of this research endeavor. The search for cleaner, cheaper, smaller and more efficient energy technologies is intimately connected to the discovery and the development of new materials.
This collection focuses on materials-based solutions to the energy problem through a series of case studies illustrating advances in energy-related materials research. The research studies employ creativity, discovery, rationale design and improvement of the physical and chemical properties of materials leading to new paradigms for competitive energy-production. The challenge tests both our fundamental understanding of material and our ability to manipulate and reconfigure materials into practical and useful configurations. Invariably these materials issues arise at the nano-scale!
For electricity generation, dramatic breakthroughs are taking place in the fields of solar cells and fuel cells, the former giving rise to entirely new classes of semiconductors; the latter testing our knowledge of the behavior of ionic transport through a solid medium. In energy-storage exciting developments are emerging from the fields of rechargeable batteries and hydrogen storage. On the horizon are breakthroughs in thermoelectrics, high temperature superconductivity, and power generation. Still to emerge are the harnessing of systems that mimic nature, ranging from fusion, as in the sun, to photosynthesis, nature's photovoltaic. All of these approaches represent a body of materials–based research employing the most sophisticated experimental and theoretical techniques dedicated to a common goal. The aim of this series is to capture these advances, through a collection of volumes authored by leading physicists, chemists, biologists and engineers that represent the forefront of energy-related materials research.
Published title
Vol. 2
Handbook of Instrumentation and Techniques for Semiconductor Nanostructure Characterization
(In 2 Volumes)
edited by Richard Haight, Frances M Ross, James B Hannon (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
With Foreword by Leonard C Feldman (Director Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology, Rutgers University, USA)
Forthcoming title
World Scientific Handbook of Energy, The
edited by Gerard M Crawley (Formerly of Michigan State University, USA & University of South Carolina, USA)
Under Contract
Materials for Biofuels
Arthur J Ragauskas (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Characterization of Photovoltaic Materials
Angus A Rockett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Conjugated Polymers: Fundamentals, Applications, and Devices
Michael J Winokur (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA)
Encyclopedia of Practical Semiconductor (A 4-Volume Set)
Eugene A Fitzgerald (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Fusion Walls Materials
Rick Kurtz (Battelle Memorial Institute, USA)
Handbook of Green Materials: Properties, Technologies and Applications (In 4-5 Volumes)
Kristiina Oksman (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden)
Handbook of Silicon Surfaces and Formation of Interfaces: Basic Science in the Industrial World (2nd Edition)
Jarek Dabrowski & Hans-Joachim Mussig (Institute for Semiconductor Research, Germany)
Hydrogen in Materials
David Drabod (Ohio University, USA)
Lectures in Photovoltaics
Jeffrey Grossman, Lucas Wagner & Elif Ertekin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Materials for Co2 Capturing
Ronald Richard Chance & Ben Mccool (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Materials for Nuclear Energy
Ian M Robertson & James Stubbins (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Nanomaterials and Energy Storage and Conversion
Elsa Reichmanis (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Organic Semiconductors - Vol. 1: Fundamentals and Computations
Jean-Luc Bredas, Seth R Marder & Jean-Marie Andre (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Organic Semiconductors - Vol. 2: Applications
Jean-Luc Bredas, Seth R Marder & Jean-Marie Andre (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Photovoltaic Materials (2nd Edition)
Martin Zinke-Allmang & Giovanni Fanchini (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
World Scientific Handbook of Laser-Relevant Materials (In 3-4 Volumes)
Richard Haglund (Vanderbilt University, USA)
World Scientific Handbook of Organic Optoelectronic Devices (In 3-4 Volumes)
Franky So (University of Florida, USA)
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