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Description

In recent days, “Recent Advances in Energy Materials” should attract researchers as well as academicians not only for academic interest but also for their various applications in electronic devices, wave guides, photonics, sensors and many other fields. Rapidly growing global energy demands, limited reserves of fossil fuels and associated environmental concerns, the intermittent nature of alternating energy sources, the limited efficiency of existing energy conversion systems—these are the challenges that society faces today. Advanced materials are the key elements in the development of improved high-efficiency, low-cost, clean energy technologies. The section “Energy Materials” is a platform for the publication of original articles and comprehensive reviews on all aspects of fundamental science and applied research on materials used for harvesting, conversion, storage, transmission, and utilization of energy. In the present book, some experienced researchers in the said field have spontaneously taken initiative to contribute the basics of such energy materials and their various applications in various devices and components etc. This book covers vivid information on recent developments and future scopes of such systems, such as electrical, optical properties, uses as electrodes, photonics, battery applications and others, which are of great interest for material researchers. Each chapter is designed in order to increase coherence, with each including question sets as exercises for in-depth understanding of the text. Key Features: # Provides up-to-date information on various energy materials such as perovskites, glassy materials, Hydrogen-based system, oxygen-defect based systems etc via experimental work and literature survey. # Presents the future scopes of such systems for researchers, technologists as well as university level students.