Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage

This course will focus primarily on the energy context and methods of energy conversion and storage, the historical development of electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies and their modern applications, as well as electrochemical mechanisms. Finally, connections will be drawn between modern energy conversion and storage technologies and current societal challenges.

Hourly volumes*:

            CM: 11

            TD: 9

• Understand the operating principles of an electrochemical generator that operates by converting hydrogen or by storing it in batteries.
• Establish a connection between these principles and their main applications.
• Understand the various systems for electrochemical energy conversion and storage.
• Understanding the issues and challenges associated with electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems

• Electrochemistry:
  • Redox potentials, Nernst's law, equilibria.
• Solid-State Chemistry.
• Interface Chemistry.
• Analytical Electrochemistry

• 70% final exam.
• 30% continuous assessment.

• Materials for Energy Conversion
  • Methods of Hydrogen Production
  • Fuel Cells
• Materials for Energy Storage
  • Lead-acid batteries
  • Alkaline batteries
  • Nickel-based batteries
  • High-Temperature Batteries
  • Lithium and post-lithium batteries

• Electrochemical Energy, Advanced Materials and Technologies, CRC Press (2016)
• C. Glaize, S. Geniés, *Lithium Batteries and Other Electrochemical Systems*, Wiley (2013)
• C. A. Vincent, B. Scrosati, *Modern Batteries*, Butterworth (2003)
• Recent scientific articles.