Materials for sustainable energy : a collection of peer-reviewed research and review articles from Nature Publishing Group / edited by Vincent Dusastre ; with an Introduction by Jean-Marie Tarascon and Michael Grätzel.

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Preface / Vincent Dusastre -- Research initiatives towards sustainable handling of energy / Jean-Marie Tarascon & Michael Gratzel -- Photovoltaic cells. Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices / Harry A. Atwater & Albert Polman. Excitons in nanoscale systems / Gregory D. Scholes & Garry Rumbles. Photoelectrochemical cells / Michael Gratzel. High-performance dye-sensitized solar cells based on solvent-free electrolytes produced from eutectic melts / Yu Bai et al. Ultrathin silicon solar microcells for semitransparent, mechanically flexible and microconcentrator module designs / Jongseung Yoon et al. Efficiency enhancement in low-bandgap polymer solar cells by processing with alkane dithiols / J. Peet et al. Metallated conjugated polymers as a new avenue towards high-efficiency polymer solar cells / Wai-Yeung Wong et al. Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources / Bozhi Tian et al. A strong regioregularity effect in self-organizing conjugated polymer films and high-efficiency polythiophene:fullerene solar cells / Youngkyoo Kim et al. Solution-processed PbS quantum dot infrared photodetectors and photovoltaics / Steven A. McDonald et al. Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells / Matt Law [and others]. High-efficiency solution processable polymer photovoltaic cells by self-organization of polymer blends / Gang Li et al. A photovoltaic device structure based on internal electron emission / Eric W. McFarland & Jing Tang. A stable quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell with an amphiphilic ruthenium sensitizer and polymer gel electrolyte / Peng Wang et al. Efficient bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using small-molecular-weight organic thin films / Peter Peumans, Soichi Uchida & Stephen R. Forrest. Thermoelectric converters. Complex thermoelectric materials / G. Jeffrey Snyder & Eric S. Toberer. Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires / Allon I. Hochbaum et al. Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials / Akram I. Boukai et al. Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit / Rama Venkatasubramanian [and others] -- Batteries and supercapacitors. Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future / Michel Armand [and others]. Materials for electrochemical capacitors / Patrice Simon & Yury Gogotsi. Nanostructured materials for advanced energy conversion and storage devices / Antonino Salvatore Arico [and others]. Nanoionics : ion transport and electrochemical storage in confined systems / J. Maier. Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries / J.-M. Tarascon & M. Armand. Lithium deintercalation in LiFePO[symbol] nanoparticles via a domino-cascade model / C. Delmas [and others].

High-performance lithium battery anodes using silicon nanowires / Candace K. Chan et al. The existence of a temperature-driven solid solution in Li[symbol]FePO[symbol] for 0[symbol]x[symbol]1 / Charles Delacourt [and others]. Nano-network electronic conduction in iron and nickel olivine phosphates / P. Subramanya Herle [and others]. Electronically conductive phospho-olivines as lithium storage electrodes / Sung-Yoon Chung, Jason T. Bloking & Yet-Ming Chiang -- Fuel cells. Advanced anodes for high-temperature fuel cells / A. Atkinson et al. Materials for fuel-cell technologies / Brian C.H. Steele & Angelika Heinzel. One-dimensional imidazole aggregate in aluminium porous coordination polymers with high proton conductivity / Sareeya Bureekaew et al. Parallel cylindrical water nanochannels in nafion fuel-cell membranes / Klaus Schmidt-Rohr & Qiang Chen. A class of non-precious metal composite catalysts for fuel cells / Rajesh Bashyam & Piotr Zelenay. Disruption of extended defects in solid oxide fuel cell anodes for methane oxidation / Juan Carlos Ruiz-Morales et al. A high-performance cathode for the next generation of solid-oxide fuel cells / Zongping Shao & Sossina M. Haile. A redox-stable efficient anode for solid-oxide fuel cells / Shanwen Tao & John T.S. Irvine -- Hydrogen generation and storage. Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications / Louis Schlapbach & Andreas Zuttel. A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light / Xinchen Wang et al. High-capacity hydrogen storage in lithium and sodium amidoboranes / Zhitao Xiong et al. Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution / Jeff Greeley [and others]. Tuning clathrate hydrates for hydrogen storage / Huen Lee et al. Hydrogen from catalytic reforming of biomass-derived hydrocarbons in liquid water / R.D. Cortright, R.R. Davda & J.A. Dumesic. Direct splitting of water under visible light irradiation with an oxide semiconductor photocatalyst / Zhigang Zou [and others] -- Superconductors. Materials science challenges for high-temperature superconducting wire / S.R. Foltyn et al. High-T[symbol] superconducting materials for electric power applications / David Larbalestier [and others]. Template engineering of co-doped BaFe[symbol]As[symbol] single-crystal thin films / S. Lee et al. Strongly enhanced current densities in superconducting coated conductors of YBa[symbol]Cu[symbol]O[symbol]+BaZrO[symbol] / J.L. MacManus-Driscoll et al.

The search for cleaner, cheaper, smaller and more efficient energy technologies has to a large extent been motivated by the development of new materials. The aim of this collection of articles is therefore to focus on what materials-based solutions can offer and show how the rational design and improvement of their physical and chemical properties can lead to energy-production alternatives that have the potential to compete with existing technologies. In terms of alternative means to generate electricity that utilize renewable energy sources, the most dramatic breakthroughs for both mobile (i.e., transportation) and stationary applications are taking place in the fields of solar and fuel cells. And from an energy-storage perspective, exciting developments can be seen emerging from the fields of rechargeable batteries and hydrogen storage.

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