Due to the pressing needs of society, low cost materials for energy devices have experienced an outstanding development in recent times. In this highly multidisciplinary area, chemistry, material science, physics, and electrochemistry meet to develop new materials and devices that perform required energy conversion and storage processes with high efficiency, adequate capabilities for required applications, and low production cost. Nanostructured Energy Devices: Equilibrium Concepts and Kinetics introduces the main physicochemical principles that govern the operation of energy devices. It inclu. Read more...
Content: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Author; Chapter 1: Introduction to Energy Devices; Chapter 2: Electrostatic and Thermodynamic Potentials of Electrons in Materials; Chapter 3: Voltage, Capacitors, and Batteries; Chapter 4: Work Functions and Injection Barriers; Chapter 5: Thermal Distribution of Electrons, Holes, and Ions in Solids; Chapter 6: Interfacial Kinetics and Hopping Transitions; Chapter 7: The Chemical Capacitance; Chapter 8: The Density of States in Disordered Inorganic and Organic Conductors; Chapter 9: Planar and Nanostructured Semiconductor Junctions; Appendix; Back Cover
Abstract: Due to the pressing needs of society, low cost materials for energy devices have experienced an outstanding development in recent times. In this highly multidisciplinary area, chemistry, material science, physics, and electrochemistry meet to develop new materials and devices that perform required energy conversion and storage processes with high efficiency, adequate capabilities for required applications, and low production cost. Nanostructured Energy Devices: Equilibrium Concepts and Kinetics introduces the main physicochemical principles that govern the operation of energy devices. It inclu
