Anoop Kumar Shukla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. His area of research is energy conversion and thermal management, phase change materials, combined power cycles, cogeneration, multigeneration, biofuels, and gas turbine cooling.Rakesh Kumar Phanden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. His current areas of interest include nature-inspired optimization algorithms, energy-aware modeling of engineering systems and product design and manufacturing, friction stir welding, tool path generation and optimization, WEDM, hybrid power cycles, heat transfer in three dimensions, and nanomaterials.Surbhi Sharma is an Associate Professor in the Centre for New Energy Transition Research, Federation University Gippsland, Churchill, Australia. Her research spans graphene oxide, nanostructured carbons, hybrid materials for fuel cells, Li-based batteries, biosensors, carbon resource upcycling, synthetic microbiology, and microbe-assisted electrocatalysts.Navneet Soin is a Lecturer at Swinburne Graduate Research, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests cover nanomaterials, surface analysis, and energy applications, with expertise in electrochemical energy storage, materials engineering, and surface properties.Prof. (Dr.) J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with over 35 years of experience in Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering. He holds multiple distinguished academic titles, including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a DSc from London Metropolitan University. He has published over 300 books and 600 articles, with more than 36,500 citations. He is ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University and holds leadership positions in numerous international journals, conferences, and research projects.

• 1. Introduction to Next-Generation Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion2. Thermal energy storage performance and thermal reliability analysis of phase change material3. Solar to thermal energy storage performance of phase change material4. Concentrated Solar Power Technologies with Different Heat Transfer Fluid and Thermal Energy Storage5. Enhancing Solar Still Productivity with Advanced PCM Integration Strategies6. Novel solar–biomass integrated energy system for clean electricity and liquid hydrogen production7. Waste energy recovery system with hydrogen as an energy storage system8. Catalytic Production of Fuels Using Solar and Electrical Energy9. Fuel Cell Technology for Efficient Energy Storage and Conversion10. Challenges, prospects and potential future orientation of hydrogen aviation11. Thermodynamic modeling of co-electrolysis at cell, stack and system levels12. Solar Cells Technology – Materials for Solar Flow Battery13. Design / Synthesis of Battery Materials14. Analyzing thermal performance of EV lithium-ion batteries15. Advances in efficient cathode material for the non-aqueous rechargeable iron-ion battery16. Energy, Exergy and sustainability (2ES) and thermohydraulic analysis of an energy conversion systems17. Perspective of Nanofluids as Heat Transfer Fluid18. Waste incineration and heat recovery hybridized with low-focus Fresnel lens solar collectors for sustainable multi-generation19. Performance Assessment of a Small-scale Biogas-to-Ammonia System20. Intelligent solar-driven multi-generation energy production/storage system21. Role of Machine Learning in Innovation and Design of Novel Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

Anoop Kumar Shukla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. His area of research is energy conversion and thermal management, phase change materials, combined power cycles, cogeneration, multigeneration, biofuels, and gas turbine cooling.Rakesh Kumar Phanden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. His current areas of interest include nature-inspired optimization algorithms, energy-aware modeling of engineering systems and product design and manufacturing, friction stir welding, tool path generation and optimization, WEDM, hybrid power cycles, heat transfer in three dimensions, and nanomaterials.Surbhi Sharma is an Associate Professor in the Centre for New Energy Transition Research, Federation University Gippsland, Churchill, Australia. Her research spans graphene oxide, nanostructured carbons, hybrid materials for fuel cells, Li-based batteries, biosensors, carbon resource upcycling, synthetic microbiology, and microbe-assisted electrocatalysts.Navneet Soin is a Lecturer at Swinburne Graduate Research, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests cover nanomaterials, surface analysis, and energy applications, with expertise in electrochemical energy storage, materials engineering, and surface properties.Prof. (Dr.) J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with over 35 years of experience in Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering. He holds multiple distinguished academic titles, including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a DSc from London Metropolitan University. He has published over 300 books and 600 articles, with more than 36,500 citations. He is ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University and holds leadership positions in numerous international journals, conferences, and research projects.

• 1. Introduction to Next-Generation Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion2. Thermal energy storage performance and thermal reliability analysis of phase change material3. Solar to thermal energy storage performance of phase change material4. Concentrated Solar Power Technologies with Different Heat Transfer Fluid and Thermal Energy Storage5. Enhancing Solar Still Productivity with Advanced PCM Integration Strategies6. Novel solar–biomass integrated energy system for clean electricity and liquid hydrogen production7. Waste energy recovery system with hydrogen as an energy storage system8. Catalytic Production of Fuels Using Solar and Electrical Energy9. Fuel Cell Technology for Efficient Energy Storage and Conversion10. Challenges, prospects and potential future orientation of hydrogen aviation11. Thermodynamic modeling of co-electrolysis at cell, stack and system levels12. Solar Cells Technology – Materials for Solar Flow Battery13. Design / Synthesis of Battery Materials14. Analyzing thermal performance of EV lithium-ion batteries15. Advances in efficient cathode material for the non-aqueous rechargeable iron-ion battery16. Energy, Exergy and sustainability (2ES) and thermohydraulic analysis of an energy conversion systems17. Perspective of Nanofluids as Heat Transfer Fluid18. Waste incineration and heat recovery hybridized with low-focus Fresnel lens solar collectors for sustainable multi-generation19. Performance Assessment of a Small-scale Biogas-to-Ammonia System20. Intelligent solar-driven multi-generation energy production/storage system21. Role of Machine Learning in Innovation and Design of Novel Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

Anoop Kumar Shukla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. His area of research is energy conversion and thermal management, phase change materials, combined power cycles, cogeneration, multigeneration, biofuels, and gas turbine cooling.Rakesh Kumar Phanden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. His current areas of interest include nature-inspired optimization algorithms, energy-aware modeling of engineering systems and product design and manufacturing, friction stir welding, tool path generation and optimization, WEDM, hybrid power cycles, heat transfer in three dimensions, and nanomaterials.Surbhi Sharma is an Associate Professor in the Centre for New Energy Transition Research, Federation University Gippsland, Churchill, Australia. Her research spans graphene oxide, nanostructured carbons, hybrid materials for fuel cells, Li-based batteries, biosensors, carbon resource upcycling, synthetic microbiology, and microbe-assisted electrocatalysts.Navneet Soin is a Lecturer at Swinburne Graduate Research, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests cover nanomaterials, surface analysis, and energy applications, with expertise in electrochemical energy storage, materials engineering, and surface properties.Prof. (Dr.) J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with over 35 years of experience in Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering. He holds multiple distinguished academic titles, including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a DSc from London Metropolitan University. He has published over 300 books and 600 articles, with more than 36,500 citations. He is ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University and holds leadership positions in numerous international journals, conferences, and research projects.

• 1. Introduction to Next-Generation Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion2. Thermal energy storage performance and thermal reliability analysis of phase change material3. Solar to thermal energy storage performance of phase change material4. Concentrated Solar Power Technologies with Different Heat Transfer Fluid and Thermal Energy Storage5. Enhancing Solar Still Productivity with Advanced PCM Integration Strategies6. Novel solar–biomass integrated energy system for clean electricity and liquid hydrogen production7. Waste energy recovery system with hydrogen as an energy storage system8. Catalytic Production of Fuels Using Solar and Electrical Energy9. Fuel Cell Technology for Efficient Energy Storage and Conversion10. Challenges, prospects and potential future orientation of hydrogen aviation11. Thermodynamic modeling of co-electrolysis at cell, stack and system levels12. Solar Cells Technology – Materials for Solar Flow Battery13. Design / Synthesis of Battery Materials14. Analyzing thermal performance of EV lithium-ion batteries15. Advances in efficient cathode material for the non-aqueous rechargeable iron-ion battery16. Energy, Exergy and sustainability (2ES) and thermohydraulic analysis of an energy conversion systems17. Perspective of Nanofluids as Heat Transfer Fluid18. Waste incineration and heat recovery hybridized with low-focus Fresnel lens solar collectors for sustainable multi-generation19. Performance Assessment of a Small-scale Biogas-to-Ammonia System20. Intelligent solar-driven multi-generation energy production/storage system21. Role of Machine Learning in Innovation and Design of Novel Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion