Chapter Listing - Fundamentals of Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability

Part 1: Energy and the environment: the global landscape 

  1. A primer on climate change
  2. The global energy landscape and energy security
  3. Sustainability and energy conversions
  4. Energy cost of materials: materials for thin-film photovoltaics as an example
  5. Economics of materials
  6. Global energy flows
  7. Global materials flows
  8. Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration in deep geological formations

Part 2: Nonrenewable energy sources  

  1. Petroleum and natural gas
  2. Advancing coal conversion technologies: materials challenges
  3. Oil shale and tar sands
  4. Unconventional energy sources: gas hydrates
  5. Nuclear energy: current and future schemes
  6. Nuclear non-proliferation
  7. Nuclear-waste management and disposal
  8. Material requirements for controlled nuclear fusion

Part 3: Renewable energy sources  

  1. Solar energy overview
  2. Direct solar energy conversion with photovoltaic devices
  3. Future concepts for photovoltaic energy conversion
  4. Concentrating and multijunction photovoltaics
  5. Concentrating solar thermal power
  6. Solar-thermoelectrics: direct solar thermal energy conversion
  7. Off-grid solar in the developing world
  8. Principles of photosynthesis
  9. Biofuels and biomaterials from microbes
  10. Biofuels from cellulosic biomass via aqueous processing
  11. Artificial photosynthesis for solar energy conversion
  12. Engineering natural photosynthesis
  13. Geothermal and ocean energy
  14. Wind energy

Part 4: Transportation  

  1. Transportation: motor vehicles
  2. Transportation: aviation
  3. Transportation: shipping
  4. Transportation: fully autonomous vehicles

Part 5: Energy efficiency 

  1. Lighting
  2. Energy efficient buildings
  3. Insulation science
  4. Industrial energy efficiency: a case study
  5. Green processing: catalysis
  6. Materials availability and recycling
  7. Life-cycle assessment

Part 6 Energy storage, high-penetration renewables and grid stabilization  

  1. Toward the smart grid: the US as a case study
  2. Consequences of high-penetration renewables
  3. Electrochemical energy storage: batteries and capacitors
  4. Mechanical energy storage: pumped hydro, CAES, flywheels
  5. Fuel cells
  6. Solar fuels
  7. Solar thermal routes to fuel
  8. Photoelectrochemistry and hybrid solar conversion

Summary  

  • Appendix A: Thermodynamics
  • Appendix B: Electrochemistry
     
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