Nanostructured functional materials for advanced energy applications
Course code: AMSN – PhDC03
Credits points (ECTS): 3
Lecturer in charge: Dr. Le Thi Huong
Description of the course:
This course will provide updated information on intensive studies on the choice and use of functional materials with nanostructure to enhance the performance of advanced energy applications. Extensive studies between conventional and advanced materials have been compared and selected. These nanomaterials have been optimized on advanced batteries and supercapacitors. Moreover, the optimized efficient materials which are used in thin-film organic solar cells also have been investigated and discussed. The up-to-date, novel and promising nanomaterials will be studied to alternative the conventional materials, improve performance and overcome drawbacks. The course will cover the state-of-the-art design, preparation, and engineering of nanoscale functional materials as effective active layers/electrodes and also discuss perspectives and challenges in future research.
Objectives of the course:
After this course, the successful student will
- Be able to understand the operation, fabrication, and function of each component in certain energy applications;
- Master in the selection and use of efficient materials to improve device performance. Moreover, optimization in materials and device fabrication has been provided to obtain higher efficiency and increase the stability of devices;
- Enlarge knowledge of novel and promising nanomaterials to replace conventional materials. By these routes, the batteries, supercapacitors, and photovoltaic devices tend to have low costs, higher efficiency, and longer utilization devices.
Contents of the course:
- Introduction nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage
- Low-dimensional carbon-based materials
- Nanocomposite polymer materials
- Transition metal/oxide/alloy materials
- Emerging functional materials
- Nanostructured materials for photocatalytic energy conversion
- Titania-based catalysts
- Graphite carbon-nitrite-based nanocomposite materials
- Nanostructured materials (TiO2 nanohybrid, CNTs/TiO2 nanocomposite, Fe2O3, graphene/TiO2)
- Hierarchically nanostructured materials for artificial photosynthesis (Fiber-like nanomaterials, GaN nanowire, ZnO-based, TiO2 nanotubes, Ag nanowire)
- Nanomaterials for fuel cells
- Polymeric nanomaterials (in microbial fuel cells, hydrogen fuel cells and direct methanol fuel cells)
- Electrocatalysts and Electrocatalysts support materials (carbon-based, Ti-based, Sb-doped SnO2, and SiO2-SO3H)
- Nanocomposite polymer electrolytes
- Nanomaterials for advanced batteries
- Lithium-ion batteries
- Cathode materials (layered compounds LiMO2, spinel compounds LMO and LMNO, olivine compounds LiMPO4
- Anode materials (Metal oxide, Li alloy, Sn-based alloy)
- Lithium titanates (Li4Ti5O12)
- Rechargeable batteries (Li2MnSiO4)-advantages and challenges.
- Rechargeable Magnesium-ion batteries
- Mg metal anode
- Alternative metal anode (Bi, Sb, Bi-Sb alloy, Sn)
- Sodium-ion batteries
- Cathode/electrolyte/anode materials
- Transition metal sulphide/selenide anode materials
- Nanocomposite polymer materials
- Lithium-ion batteries
- Nanomaterials for advanced supercapacitors
- Cathode: Nanostructured oxides (transition metal oxides, intercalation compounds, conversion compounds)
- Carbon materials (porous carbon, graphene, doped carbon, and 3D graphene)
- Flexible supercapacitor (carbon fiber-based fabric, CNT, graphene-based aerosol, conductive carbon-based)
- Fiber supercapacitor (carbon fiber, CNTs, graphene fiber)
- Membrane separators
- Battery technology
- Supercapacitor technology
- Nanostructured materials for solar cells
- Nanocarbon for perovskite solar cells
- Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells
- Near-IR dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells
- Nanostructured extremely thin absorber solar cells
- Quantum structure/Colloidal quantum dot
- Materials for flexible-printable solar cells
- Materials for semi-transparent/transparent solar cells
References:
- Alagarsamy Pandikumar and Perumal Rameshkumar, Nanostructured, functional, and flexible materials for energy conversion and storage systems, Elsevier 2020.
- Kenneth I. Ozoemena and Shaowei Chen (Editors), Nanomaterials for Advanced batteries and supercapacitors, Springer 2016.
- Tetsuo Soga, Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion, Elsevier 2006.
- Wei Fan, Longsheng Zhang, Tianxi Liu, Graphene-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids for Energy and Environmental Applications, Springer Singapore 2017.