Nanoenergy

Presenting the latest trends in solar energy storage and the main developments in energy in Brazil, this volume explores the revolutionary technology of low-dimensional systems and assesses what the next research moves must be to advance the field.

Contextualizes alternative manners to produce and store clean and sustainable fuels

Written by leading experts in major field of physics, chemistry and materials science

Presents theory-experimental as well as commercial achievements in the field

Autorentext

Flavio Leandro de Souza is an accredited researcher by The Brazilian Research Council (CNPq), Associate Professor at Federal University of ABC in Brazil and Visiting Professor at the Materials Science Department, University of California, Davis, USA. His present research is focused on using bottom-up methods for the development of nanostructured materials based on metal oxides with interesting for application in photoelectrochemical cells (PEC) and solar cells devices.

Edson Roberto Leite is currently a Professor in the Chemistry Department at Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. His current research interests include synthesis and growth process of inorganic nanoparticles by chemical approaches, materials characterization by electron microscopy, thermal stability of nanostructured materials and materials for photoelectrochemistry devices and solar water splitting. He is the recipient of several awards, including Scopus Prize for the remarkable scientific production from Elsevier/CAPES(2006) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for the development of scientific research related to the thermal stability of ceramics nanosystem from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009). A member of the World Academy of Ceramics, he is also Principal Editor of the Journal Materials Research (JRM) and Journal of Nanoparticle Research (JNR).

Inhalt
Hybrid solar cells: effects of the incorporation of inorganic nanoparticles into bulk heterojunction organic solar cells.- Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Ruthenium (II) Tris-Heteroleptic Compounds or Natural Dyes.- Photocatalytic Water Splitting by Suspended Semiconductor Particles.- Latest advances on the columnar nanostructure for solar water splitting.- Biofuel Cells.- Recent Advances on Nanostructured Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Electro Reduction and Ethanol Electro-Oxidation.