LEADER 04898nam 22006135 450 001 9910349516303321 005 20200703023945.0 010 $a3-030-24861-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-24861-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000008959091 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5849350 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-24861-1 035 $a(PPN)242824358 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008959091 100 $a20190809d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMetal Oxides/Chalcogenides and Composites$b[electronic resource] $eEmerging Materials for Electrochemical Water Splitting /$fby Aneeya Kumar Samantara, Satyajit Ratha 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (94 pages) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Materials,$x2192-1091 311 $a3-030-24860-7 327 $aChapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Types of Electrolysis of Water -- Chapter3: Mechanism and key parameters for catalyst evaluation -- Chapter4: Electroactive Materials -- Chapter5: Potential Applications of Electrolysis for Commercial Hydrogen Production -- Chapter6: Summary and Conclusion. 330 $aThis book covers the recent development of metal oxides, hydroxides and their carbon composites for electrochemical oxidation of water in the production of hydrogen and oxygen as fuels. It includes a detailed discussion on synthesis methodologies for the metal oxides/hydroxides, structural/morphological characterizations, and the key parameters (Tafel plot, Turnover frequency, Faradic efficiency, overpotential, long cycle life etc.) needed to evaluate the electrocatalytic activity of the materials. Additionally, the mechanism behind the electro oxidation process is presented. Readers will find a comprehensive source on the close correlation between metal oxides, hydroxides, composites, and their properties and importance in the generation of hydrogen and oxygen from water. The depletion of fossil fuels from the earth?s crust, and related environmental issues such as climate change, demand that we search for alternative energy resources to achieve some form of sustainable future. In this regard, much scientific research has been devoted to technologies such as solar cells, wind turbines, fuel cells etc. Among them fuel cells attract much attention because of their versatility and efficiency. In fuel cells, different fuels such as hydrogen, CO2, alcohols, acids, methane, oxygen/air, etc. are used as the fuel, and catalysts are employed to produce a chemical reaction for generating electricity. Hence, it is very important to produce these fuels in an efficient, eco-friendly, and cost effective manner. The electrochemical splitting of water is an environmentally friendly process to produce hydrogen (the greener fuel used in fuel cells), but the efficiencies of these hydrogen evolution reactions (cathodic half reaction) are strongly dependent on the anodic half reaction (oxygen evolution reaction), i.e., the better the anodic half, the better will be the cathodic reaction. Further, this oxygen evolution reaction depends on the types of active electrocatalysts used. Though many more synthetic approaches have been explored and different electrocatalysts developed, oxide and hydroxide-based nanomaterials and composites (with graphene, carbon nanotubes etc.) show better performance. This may be due to the availability of more catalytic surface area and electro active centers to carry out the catalysis process. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Materials,$x2192-1091 606 $aMaterials science 606 $aForce and energy 606 $aEnergy storage 606 $aElectrochemistry 606 $aMetals 606 $aEnergy Materials$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Z21000 606 $aEnergy Storage$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/116000 606 $aElectrochemistry$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/C21010 606 $aMetallic Materials$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Z16000 615 0$aMaterials science. 615 0$aForce and energy. 615 0$aEnergy storage. 615 0$aElectrochemistry. 615 0$aMetals. 615 14$aEnergy Materials. 615 24$aEnergy Storage. 615 24$aElectrochemistry. 615 24$aMetallic Materials. 676 $a665.81 700 $aSamantara$b Aneeya Kumar$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0993679 702 $aRatha$b Satyajit$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910349516303321 996 $aMetal Oxides$92504625 997 $aUNINA