Advances in Electronic Materials for Clean Energy Conversion and Storage Applications

Dr. Aftab Aslam Parwaz Khan is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 2011. He has authored 3 books, 15 chapters and more than 130 research papers published in journals of international repute. He is also an Editorial Board Member, as well as a reviewer of many reputed international journals. His research encompasses all aspects of nanomaterials, synthesis, and characterization as well as application in chemical sensing, biosensing environmental remediation of pollution, and drug delivery system for mechanistic and interaction studies using a wide range of spectroscopic techniques and thermodynamic parameters. Dr. Mohammed Nazim is working as a research scientist in the Division of Energy Technology, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Republic of Korea to produce clean energy materials. He is an experienced scientist with more than ten years research experience in clean energy technology applications via organic and hybrid solar cells. He has published more than 17 research articles of high quality, 6 chapters and 2 research patents with a high national and international exposure of research in scientific conferences and seminars. He simultaneously worked in various fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, and material science including nanomaterials, energy materials, green energy, and clean technologies. Prof. Abdullah M. Asiri is the Head of the Chemistry Department at King Abdulaziz University since October 2009 and he is the founder and the Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR) since 2010 till date. He is the Professor of Organic Photochemistry. His research interest covers color chemistry, synthesis of novel photochromic and thermochromic systems, synthesis of novel coloring matters and dyeing of textiles, materials chemistry, nanochemistry and nanotechnology, polymers and plastics. A major achievement of Prof. Asiri is the discovery of tribochromic compounds, a class of compounds which change from slightly or colorless to deep colored when subjected to small pressure or when grind. This discovery was introduced to the scientific community as a new terminology published by IUPAC in 2000. This discovery was awarded a patent from European Patent office and from UK patent. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of various journals of international repute. He is the Vice- President of Saudi Chemical Society (Western Province Branch). He holds four USA patents, more than 800 Publications in international journals, seven book chapters, and ten books

• Part I: Advanced electronic materials for solar energy applications1. Introduction to advanced electronic materials for solar energy applications2. Advanced electronic materials for engineering energy applications3. Carbon-based nanomaterials for solar energy4. Quantum dots/Nanoparticles for solar energy5. Organic semiconducting materials for solar energy6. Small molecule organic solar cells7. Polymer Organic Solar Cells8. Metal halide hybrid perovskite materials for solar energy9. Metal-halide perovskite nanomaterials and applications10. Metal-halide perovskites for hybrid solar cells11. Photon-downconversion materials for solar energy12. Quantum dot as photon-downconversion materials13. Organic dyes as photon-downconversion materials14. Polymer-based nanocomposite for solar energy applications15. Prospects and future perspective of electronic materials for solar cell applicationsPart II. Advanced electronic materials for energy storage (supercapacitor and battery) applications16. Introduction to advanced electronic materials for energy storage applications17. Advanced electronic materials for engineering energy storage applications18. Carbon-based nanomaterials for supercapacitor electrode materials19. Transition metal oxide nanomaterials as electrodes for supercapacitor applications20. Transition metal oxides as electrode materials21. Graphene derivative/transition metal oxides nanocomposites as electrode materials22. Polymers-based nanocomposite as electrode materials for supercapacitor applications23. Transition metal oxide nanomaterials-based electrodes for battery applications24. Carbon-based nanomaterials for battery applications25. Graphene-derivative decorated transition-metal oxide nanocomposites for battery applications26. Prospects and future perspective of nanomaterials for energy storage applications