Covalent organic frameworks-based nanomaterials have emerged as promising candidates for energy applications owing to their superior electrochemical properties, surface area, nano-device integration, multifunctionality, printability, and mechanical flexibility. This book provides fundamentals, various synthesis approaches, and applications of covalent organic frameworks-based nanomaterials and their composites for generating energy.
The main objective of this book is to provide current, state-of-the-art knowledge about covalent organic frameworks-based nanomaterials and their composites for supercapacitors, batteries, photovoltaics, and fuel cells, covering almost the entire spectrum in the energy field under one title. Aimed at widening our fundamental understanding of covalent organic frameworks and mechanisms for realization and advancement in devices with improved energy efficiency and high storage capacity, this book will provide new directions for scientists, researchers, and students to better understand the principles, technologies, and applications of covalent organic frameworks.
Table of Contents:
1. Covalent Organic Framework: An Introduction
2. Materials, Chemistry, and Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks
3. Recent Development in Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks
4. Architectural Aspects of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Energy Applications
5. Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks for Improved Energy Applications
6. Covalent Organic Frameworks: Fundamentals to Advanced Energy Applications
7. Covalent Organic Frameworks for Fuel Cell Applications
8. Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Reduction Reactions
9. Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Evolution Reactions
10. Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Nanomaterials for Oxygen Evolution Reactions
11. Covalent Organic Frameworks as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reactions
12. Emerging Applications of Covalent Organic Frameworks and Their Architectural Aspects for Improved Oxygen Evolution Reactions
13. Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Nanomaterials for Oxygen Reduction Reactions
14. Recent Development in Covalent Organic Framework Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reactions
15. Metal-Air Batteries Based on Nanostructured Covalent Organic Frameworks
16. Metal-Sulfur Batteries Based on Nanostructured Covalent Organic Frameworks
17. Photocatalysts Based on Covalent Organic Frameworks
18. Recent Advancement in Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Activities
19. Covalent Organic Frameworks and Clusters in Storing Hydrogen
20. Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Storage
21. Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Adsorbents for Methane Storage: Experimentation and Simulations
22. Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Nanomaterials for Greenhouse Gases Capture and Storage: CH4 and CO2
23. Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Membranes and Adsorbents for Water Treatment and Gas Separation
24. Covalent Organic Framework-Based Nanoparticles for Catalytic Environmental Remediation
25. Covalent Organic Frameworks in Polymer Nanocomposites with Superior Thermo-Mechanical Properties and Electrochemical Applications
26. Recent Development in Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Materials for Supercapacitors
27. Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Nanomaterials as Electrode Materials for Supercapacitors
About the Author :
Dr. Ram K. Gupta is an Associate Professor at Pittsburg State University. Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on conducting polymers and composites, green energy production and storage using biowastes and nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic hetero-junctions for sensors, bio-based polymers, flame-retardant polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, corrosion inhibiting coatings, and bio-degradable metallic implants. Dr. Gupta has published over 240 peer-reviewed articles, made over 300 national, international, and regional presentations, chaired many sessions at national/international meetings, edited many books, and written several book chapters. He has received over two and a half million dollars for research and educational activities from many funding agencies. He is serving as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, and editorial board member of numerous journals.
Dr. Tuan Anh Nguyen completed his BSc in Physics from Hanoi University in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Paris Diderot University (France) in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University (South Korea, 2004) and the University of Wollongong (Australia, 2005). He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate & Research Scientist at Montana State University (USA), 2006-2009. In 2012, he was appointed as Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology). He has managed 4 Ph.D. theses as thesis director and 3 are in progress. He is Editor-In-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience and Founding Co-Editor-In-Chief of Current Nanotoxicity & Prevention. He is the author of 4 Vietnamese books and Editor of 32 Elsevier books in the Micro & Nano Technologies Series.
