This book highlights progress towards the capture, storage, and utilization of energy through the development of advanced materials and systems based on abundant elements, materials, and commodities. Energy is critical to human sustainability and a global-scale deployment of renewable energy systems will be required. Hence, the chapters integrate the fundamental aspects that enable the technical advancements in detail, along with an emphasis on the need for highly sustainable materials to enable real impact for humankind: To determine innovation of energy capture and storage through characterizations of materials in areas of electrical generation and electrical storage systems; To demonstrate better performance, economic and environmental advantages than the current state of the art; To define new chemistries and materials for innovations in energy density design through lower operational temperatures, improve safety, expanding operational voltage, battery durability lifetimes, and reduce system costs.Advances critical technical and commercial objectives for novel high energy density materials;Evaluates operational material models for optimizing energy capture that are integrated by configurations as a system;Illustrates utilization of material life cycle assessment for high energy outputs generators for sustainable materials.
Describes how developing this material for application in translucent tall buildings in urban centers offers attractive functionality
Investigates translucent composite material to enhance the visible transmission and solar modulation properties of microfluidics for transition temperature decrease
Proposes methods to use leaf vasculature formations to advance materials to act as infrared blockers
Mark Alston
Bio-inspired engineering Microfluidics Vasculature Solar radiation Translucent composite material Switchable infared absorber Thermally functional Self-optimization Heat transport Transition temperature Solar modulation Transparent composites