Overview
- First book focused on neutron scattering for sustainable energy materials
- Offers contributions by top specialists in the field
- Discusses the future prospects of neutron scattering techniques for sustainable energy materials
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Neutron Scattering Applications and Techniques (NEUSCATT)
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About this book
Neutron Applications in Materials for Energy collects results and conclusions of recent neutron-based investigations of materials that are important in the development of sustainable energy. Chapters are authored by leading scientists with hands-on experience in the field, providing overviews, recent highlights, and case-studies to illustrate the applicability of one or more neutron-based techniques of analysis. The theme follows energy production, storage, and use, but each chapter, or section, can also be read independently, with basic theory and instrumentation for neutron scattering being outlined in the introductory chapter.
Whilst neutron scattering is extensively used to understand properties of condensed matter, neutron techniques are exceptionally-well suited to studying how the transport and binding of energy and charge-carrying molecules and ions are related to their dynamics and the material’s crystal structure. These studies extend to in situ and in operando in some cases. The species of interest in leading energy-technologies include H2, H+, and Li+ which have particularly favourable neutron-scattering properties that render these techniques of analysis ideal for such studies and consequently, neutron-based analysis is common-place for hydrogen storage, fuel-cell, catalysis, and battery materials. Similar research into the functionality of solar cell, nuclear, and CO2 capture/storage materials rely on other unique aspects of neutron scattering and again show how structure and dynamics provide an understanding of the material stability and the binding and mobility of species of interest within these materials.
Scientists and students looking for methods to help them understand the atomic-level mechanisms and behaviour underpinning the performance characteristics of energy materials will find Neutron Applications in Materials for Energy a valuable resource,whilst the wider audience of sustainable energy scientists, and newcomers to neutron scattering should find this a useful reference.
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Keywords
- Cathode materials and solid electrolytes
- Cationic conductivity
- Fuel cell catalyst
- Hydrogen conductivity
- Hydrogen-related properties of matter
- In-situ neutron scattering analysis
- Inelastic incoherent neutron scattering
- Inorganic solar-cells
- Intermetallic compounds
- Ionic mobility in solids
- Lattice dynamics and crystallography studies
- Neutron-based studies on sustainable-energy materials
Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Energy Generation
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Energy Storage
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Energy Use
Reviews
“Gordon J. Kearley and Vanessa K. Patterson have edited a remarkable and long due book in the Springer series Neutron Scattering Applications and Techniques. In the newest issue on the topic of energy materials contributions from some of the leading neutron scatterers in this field have been gathered. … this book demonstrates the power of neutron scattering and imaging for energy research and thus represents an important tool to bridge the gap between neutron scattering specialists and energy researchers.” (Joel Mesot, Neutron News, Vol. 26 (4), 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neutron Applications in Materials for Energy
Editors: Gordon J. Kearley, Vanessa K. Peterson
Series Title: Neutron Scattering Applications and Techniques
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06656-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06655-4Published: 05 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34321-1Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06656-1Published: 23 January 2015
Series ISSN: 1868-0372
Series E-ISSN: 1868-0380
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 306
Number of Illustrations: 85 b/w illustrations, 81 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Nanotechnology, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Energy Storage, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials