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Fuel Cells Technology and Electrode Materials for a Sustainable Future

  • 1st Edition - November 13, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Anuj Kumar, Ram K. Gupta
  • Language: English

Fuel Cells Technology and Electrode Materials for Sustainable Future presents an up-to-date review of the latest advancements in fuel cell technology and materials, including… Read more

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Description

Fuel Cells Technology and Electrode Materials for Sustainable Future presents an up-to-date review of the latest advancements in fuel cell technology and materials, including a comprehensive examination of the synthesis, characterization, and application of electrode materials for fuel cells. With a focus on the fundamentals of electrochemical behavior and their relevance to fuel cells, the book delves into novel techniques and advanced technologies currently being employed in the field.

Presenting a well-defined theoretical approach to the design of new electrocatalysts, the book provides extensive information on the designs and modeling of electrocatalysts and catalyst layers for the PEMCs, the fundamentals of PEMFCs working, catalyst deterioration and diagnosis, and techniques for reducing failure modes. Sustainability and cost considerations are included throughout. In addition, it discusses promising and significant future directions for fuel cells development. Within each chapter, detailed figures, images, and reference data have been included to make the book accessible for new entrants to the topic.

Key features

  • Summarizes the state-of-the-art progress on fuel cell technology and materials
  • Presents synthesis, characterization, and applications of electrode materials for fuel cells
  • Explains the fundamentals of electrochemical behavior and how it relates to fuel cells
  • Offers novel methods and advanced technologies used in fuel cell technology

Readership

Students, researchers, and engineers working in the fields of fuel cells, including material scientists, electrochemical engineers, and chemists who are interested in the development, design, and optimization of fuel cells

Table of contents

1. Basics of Fuel Cells

2. Thermodynamic Chemistry of PEM Fuel Cell

3. Electrode Kinetics

4. Concentration Polarization

5. Characterization of Fuel Cells

6. Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction

7. Emerging Materials for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR)

8. Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction

9. Emerging Materials for Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction (HOR)

10. Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Methanol and Ethanol

11. Emerging Materials for Alcohol Oxidation Reaction (AOR)

12. Single-Atom Catalysts for ORR and AOR

13. Dual-Atom Catalysts for ORR and AOR

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 16, 2024
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Anuj Kumar

Anuj Kumar obtained an M.Tech. in Instrumentation from the Indian Institute of Technology Kurukshetra in 2004 and a PhD in Embedded Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2011. Between 2011 and 2015, he held posts as a Postdoc Fellow at the University of Seoul, the University of Pretoria, and the National University of Singapore. He has been working on devices to monitor indoor air quality and to tackle associated problems for the past 15 years. His research interests include sensing applications, wireless sensor-actuator networks, energy-efficient buildings, and the Internet of Things applied to building physics.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemistry, GLA University, Mathura, India

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Ram K. Gupta

Ram Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University, Kansas, United States. His research focus is in green energy production and storage using nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, conducting polymers and composites as well as bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA

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