Green Energy Materials Handbook

Green Energy Materials Handbook gives a systematic review of the development of reliable, low-cost, and high-performance green energy materials, covering mainstream computational and experimental studies as well as comprehensive literature on green energy materials, computational methods, experimental fabrication and characterization techniques, and recent progress in the field. This work presents complete experimental measurements and computational results as well as potential applications. Among green technologies, electrochemical and energy storage technologies are considered as the most practicable, environmentally friendly, and workable to make full use of renewable energy sources. This text includes 11 chapters on the field, devoted to 4 important topical areas: computational material design, energy conversion, ion transport, and electrode materials. This handbook is aimed at engineers, researchers, and those who work in the fields of materials science, chemistry, and physics. The systematic studies proposed in this book can greatly promote the basic and applied sciences. Ming-Fa Lin is a distinguished professor in the Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He received his PhD in physics in 1993 from the National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. His main scientific interests focus on essential properties of carbon-related materials and low-dimensional systems. He is a member of American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and Physical Society of Republic of China (Taiwan). Wen-Dung Su is Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Dr. Su received a PhD from University of Florida and was awarded Outstanding Teaching Award, Institute of Engineering Education, Taiwan. Introduction Molecular effects of functional polymer binders on Li + transport on the cathode surface within lithium ion battery 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Molecular dynamics simulation details 2.3 Results and discussion 2.4 Summary and future perspectives Essential properties of Li/Li + graphite intercalation compounds 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The theoretical model 3.3 Rich geometric structures of graphites and graphite intercalation compounds 3.4 Unusual band structures of graphite-related systems 3.5 van Hove singularities in density of states 3.6 Chemical bondings and charge distributions 3.7 Summary Defective and amorphous graphene as anode materials for Li-ion batteries: a first-principles study 4.1 Introduction 4.