Functional Materials: Advances and Applications in Energy Storage and Conversion

The world is currently facing the urgent and demanding problem of saving and utilizing energy as efficiently as possible. Materials science, where chemistry meets physics, has garnered a great deal of attention because of its versatile techniques for designing and producing new, desired materials enabling energy storage and conversion. This book is a comprehensive survey of the research on such materials. Unlike a monograph or a review book, it covers a wide variety of compounds, details diverse study methodologies, and spans different scientific fields. It contains cutting-edge research in chemistry and physics from the interdisciplinary team of Ehime University (Japan), member of which are currently broadening the horizon of materials sciences through their own ideas, tailored equipment, and state-of-the-art techniques.