Books by Keyword: Phase Change Materials (PCM)

Description: This 2-volumes set contains selected and peer-review papers in the subject areas of development and utilization of solar energy, development and utilization of biomass energy, development and utilization of wind energy, nuclear energy and nuclear engineering, hydrogen, fuel cell and related technologies, heat pumps technology, storage battery, energy storage technologies, energy-saving technology, energy materials and technology, energy chemical engineering and processes, energy security and clean use, new energy vehicles and electric vehicles, green building materials and energy-saving buildings. This book provides new information and methods on possibilities of managing the worlds energy crisis and simultaneously protecting the environment.

Description: The exploitation of new energy sources is one of the ways of decreasing carbon emissions, optimizing energy infrastructures and realizing sustainable development. New energy materials are important for guiding and supporting the development of new energy sources, and are extensively used in novel energy systems.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
These proceedings consist of the 69 papers which were submitted to the 2012 International Workshop on Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage which was held on March 23-25 in Shenzhen, China. The goal of this workshop was to provide a forum where researchers, engineers and students could discuss their latest research results and exchange experimental conclusions concerning the latest developments in the field of new energy materials.

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The 48 peer-reviewed papers of this special collection concentrate on the topics of: Academic Frontiers of Ecological Environment Functional Materials and Ion Technology, Testing Technology and Evaluation Method of Ecological Environment Functional Materials and University Education of Ecological Environment Functional Materials.

Description: The 47 peer-reviewed papers collected here together offer a plenitude of up-to-date information on “Thermal-to-Electrical Energy Conversion, Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion and Concentrating Solar Technologies”. The papers are conveniently arranged into MATERIALS FOR DIRECT THERMAL-TO-ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONVERSION, MATERIALS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION, Crystalline Cells and Thin Film Photovoltaics, Emerging and New Generation Solar Cells, MATERIALS FOR CONCENTRATING SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES, CPV Materials and Technologies, CSP Materials and Technologies, CPV and CSP Application.

Description: This collection aims to promote increased international research and academic communication in the field of ecological environment-functional materials and ion technology. It focuses on the theory of ion-technology industries, industrialization of ion processing and the development of ecological environment-functional materials.