Progress Towards Energy Capture, Storage, and Utilization

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.

Key Objectives and Evaluations

• 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.