Advances in Functional Materials in Form of Spintronic, MXenr and Plasmonic Materials for Harvesting Renewable Energy

This article describes research needs for sustainable buildings as defined in a July 2009 National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop. This workshop brought together building researchers with researchers in the areas of distributed renewable energy and multifunctional materials to engage their expertise and identify overlapping research needs and opportunities. An overview of sustainable building design provided the broad context for discussion. This overview was followed by focused presentations in building control systems, advanced building envelopes, and systems and process integration. In addition, presentations on distributed renewable energy and multi-functional materials supported the participants in outlining and generating research needs that connect the topic areas. The primary outcome from this part of the workshop was the identification of key sustainable building research needs in: transformative measurements; passive strategies; regional solutions and living labs; systems integration; storage and cascades; adoption of international advances; and implementation and market transformation. These needs, along with associated technical challenges and potential impacts, are described in this paper to guide sustainable building research.

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Unconventional Patterning for Organic Functional Materials Applicable to Renewable Energy Devices

Applied Science and Convergence Technology ◽

10.5757/jkvs.2009.18.5.390 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 390-393

Author(s):

Sung-Jin Kim

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Functional Materials ◽

Energy Devices

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La-Ni based Alloys Preparation for Hydrogen Reversible Sorption and their Application for Renewable Energy Storage

10.20944/preprints201805.0219.v1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Artem Chesalkin ◽

Petr Moldrik ◽

Alexandr Martaus

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Energy Storage ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Functional Materials ◽

Initial Energy ◽

Solar Panels ◽

Ambient Temperatures ◽

Wind Generators ◽

Production Of Hydrogen ◽

Renewable Energy Storage

Metal hydrides are one of the types of functional materials that allow safe and compact storage of a large amount of hydrogen, which is increasingly used today as an alternate fuel or energy source. The possibility of obtaining the initial energy necessary for the production of hydrogen by electrolysis process from renewable energy sources, such as solar panels and wind generators, makes hydrogen energetic quite attractive and rapidly developing industry sector. Solid form of hydrogen storage with the possibility of reversible sorption, gives opportunity for creation autonomous energy storage systems. La-Ni based alloys allow hydrogen storing at ambient temperatures and pressure not higher than 15 bar, which makes the application of these alloys quite practical, interesting and prospects for analysis and modifications on the ways of stored hydrogen capacity increasing, alloys price reducing and application for renewable energy storage.

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High Resolution Electron Microscopy of internal interfaces in layered materials

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100174734 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 320-321

Author(s):

Yoichi Ishida ◽

Hideki Ichinose ◽

Yutaka Takahashi ◽

Jin-yeh Wang

Keyword(s):

Grain Boundaries ◽

Mirror Symmetry ◽

Functional Materials ◽

High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽

Layered Materials ◽

Plane Boundary ◽

Chemical Information ◽

Layer Plane ◽

High Tc ◽

Cubic Metals

Layered materials draw attention in recent years in response to the world-wide drive to discover new functional materials. High-Tc superconducting oxide is one example. Internal interfaces in such layered materials differ significantly from those of cubic metals. They are often parallel to the layer of the neighboring crystals in sintered samples(layer plane boundary), while periodically ordered interfaces with the two neighboring crystals in mirror symmetry to each other are relatively rare. Consequently, the atomistic features of the interface differ significantly from those of cubic metals. In this paper grain boundaries in sintered high-Tc superconducting oxides, joined interfaces between engineering ceramics with metals, and polytype interfaces in vapor-deposited bicrystal are examined to collect atomic information of the interfaces in layered materials. The analysis proved that they are not neccessarily more complicated than that of simple grain boundaries in cubic metals. The interfaces are majorly layer plane type which is parallel to the compound layer. Secondly, chemical information is often available, which helps the interpretation of the interface atomic structure.

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Pyridyl disulfide-based thiol–disulfide exchange reaction: shaping the design of redox-responsive polymeric materials

Polymer Chemistry ◽

10.1039/d0py01215g ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (48) ◽

pp. 7603-7624

Author(s):

Ismail Altinbasak ◽

Mehmet Arslan ◽

Rana Sanyal ◽

Amitav Sanyal

Keyword(s):

Exchange Reaction ◽

Functional Materials ◽

Polymeric Materials ◽

Disulfide Exchange ◽

Redox Responsive ◽

Synthetic Approaches

This review provides an overview of synthetic approaches utilized to incorporate the thiol-reactive pyridyl-disulfide motif into various polymeric materials, and briefly highlights its utilization to obtain functional materials.

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