Integrated Solar Fuel Generators

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78262-555-1
Verlag: RSC Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 564 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1019 g

Reihe: Energy and Environment Series

With the rapid worldwide increase of interest and excitement about the promise of artificial photosynthesis for renewable fuels, the research community is beginning to focus on the challenges of integrating the various components into complete, unassisted solar fuel generators.

Integrated Solar Fuel Generators discusses the scientific and engineering efforts addressing the challenges of building complete integrated artificial photosystems that will form the basis for developing a solar fuels technology. Building on recent substantial progress towards efficient semiconductor light absorbers and robust, earth abundant heterogeneous catalysts for water oxidation and proton reduction by the community, the integration of these components into efficient durable generators suitable for scale-up moves into focus. To succeed, a broad range of materials, processing, and design issues need to be addressed to meet efficiency, stability and scalability requirements.

This book describes the critical areas of research and development towards viable integrated solar fuels systems, the current state of the art of these efforts and outlines future research needs that will accelerate progress towards a deployable technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharp, Ian D

Atwater, Harry A

Lewerenz, Hans-Joachim

Weitere Mitwirkende

Frei, Heinz

Peter, Laurie

Lewerenz, Hans-Joachim

Ager, Joel

Dini, Danilo

Bell, Alexis

Friebel, Daniel

Gregoire, John

McCrory, Charles

Miller, Daniel

Xiang, Chengxiang

Turner, John

Weber, Adam

Walczak, Karl

Greenblatt, Jeffrey

Atwater, Harry A

Osterloh, Frank

Sharp, Ian D

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Concepts of Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion and Fuel Generation; Photo-electrochemical Hydrogen Plants at Scale: A Life-cycle Net Energy Assessment; Understanding the Effects of Composition and Structure on the Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) Occurring on NiFeOx Catalysts; Surface Science, X-ray and Electron Spectroscopy Studies of Electrocatalysis; Evaluating Electrocatalysts for Solar Water-splitting Reactions; Heterojunction Approaches for Stable and Efficient Photoelectrodes; Artificial Photosynthesis with Inorganic Particles; Degradation of Semiconductor Electrodes in Photoelectrochemical Devices: Principles and Case Studies; High Throughput Experimentation for the Discovery of Water Splitting Materials; Membranes for Solar Fuels Devices; Prototyping Development of Integrated Solar-driven Water-splitting Cells; High-efficiency Water Splitting Systems; Continuum-scale Modeling of Solar Water-splitting Devices

Über Autor(innen)

Frei, Heinz
A Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Heinz Frei studied chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (PhD in physical chemistry 1977). After a postdoctoral stay at the Chemistry Department of the University of California at Berkeley, he started a research group in solar photochemistry at LBNL with focus on chemistry with near infrared light, work for which he received the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society in 1990. Since then, Frei has established new methods for utilizing visible and near infrared light for the environmentally friendly synthesis of useful chemicals and for the chemical storage of solar photons, communicated in over 160 peer reviewed articles. Currently, his research effort focuses on the scientific challenges of the direct conversion of carbon dioxide and water to a liquid fuel by artificial photosynthesis. Frei served as a Deputy Director of LBNL’s Physical Biosciences Division (1998-2007) and the Helios Solar Energy Research Center (2008-2011). He was one of the founding scientists of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP, the U.S. Dept. of Energy Innovation Hub for Fuels from Sunlight), Leader of its Interface Project 2010-2015, and Dept. Head of JCAP at LBNL in 2012. Frei has co-organized several symposia on solar photochemistry in the past few years and was Joint-Chair of the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Solar Fuels. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014.

Bell, Alexis
Alexis Bell has been professor at the University of California at Berkeley since 1967

Ian D Sharp is a Staff Scientist at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator, USA.

Harry A Atwater is the Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology, USA.

Hans-Joachim Lewerenz is Department Head for Accelerated Discovery at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator, USA.