Advanced Materials for Batteries & Fuel Cells
- Chemistry of energy storage
- New electrode materials for rechargable lithium-ion batteries based on carbon nanofibers and nanoparticles
- High energy capacity electrodes for Li-ion batteries with long-cycle life
- Graphene-based composite electrodes for fuel cells
- Pilot-scale graphene production from recycled carbon by a green and simple technique
- PEM fuel cells with low catalyst loading
- Graphene nanocomposites & functionalized graphene as catalyst supports for PEM fuel cells
- Development of nanocatalysts for fuel cells
- Green wet-laying process to produce fuel cell electrodes
- Water-free proton conducting membranes for high temperature PEM fuel cells
- Radiation grafted membranes for fuel cells
- Polymer assisted fabrication of nanoparticles on electrospun nanofibers for fuel cell catalysts
- Functional and conductive polymer thin films
- Hybrid supercapacitors from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes and conducting polymers
Energy Economics, Policy and Markets
Advanced Materials & Processes for Energy Efficiency
- Boosting solar cell efficiency
- Energy-efficient building materials
- Nanoparticle coatings to improve energy efficiency
- Improving energy efficiency in buildings through nanoparticle coatings
- Oxide-oxide artificially layered structures for high density, high power capacitors
- Energy efficiency with nanostructured surfaces-pool boiling applications
- Energy efficiency with pHEMA coated surfaces
- Heat transfer enhancement in microtubes with nanofluids for energy efficiency
- Micro scale cavitation and its energy efficient biomedical applications
- Ferrofluid actuation for energy efficient micropumping and cooling applications
- Effect of nanostructure distribution on energy efficiency of thermalfluidic systems
- "THINK outside the box" for structural COMPOSITEs