Duncan W. Bruce & Dermot O’Hare 
Energy Materials 

In an age of global industrialisation and population growth, the
area of energy is one that is very much in the public
consciousness. Fundamental scientific research is recognised as
being crucial to delivering solutions to these issues, particularly
to yield novel means of providing efficient, ideally recyclable,
ways of converting, transporting and delivering energy.

This volume considers a selection of the state-of-the-art
materials that are being designed to meet some of the energy
challenges we face today. Topics are carefully chosen that show how
the skill of the synthetic chemist can be applied to allow the
targeted preparation of inorganic materials with properties
optimised for a specific application.

Four chapters explore the key areas of:

* Polymer Electrolytes

* Advanced Inorganic Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel
Cells

* Solar Energy Materials

* Hydrogen Adsorption on Metal Organic Framework Materials for
Storage Applications

Energy Materials provides both a summary of the current status
of research, and an eye to how future research may develop
materials properties further.

Additional volumes in the Inorganic Materials
Series:

Molecular Materials

Functional Oxides

Porous Materials

Low-Dimensional Solids

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Inorganic Materials Series Preface.

Preface.

List of Contributors.

1 Polymer Electrolytes (Michel B. Armand, Peter G.
Bruce, Maria Forsyth and Bruno Scrosati).

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Nanocomposite Polymer Electrolytes.

1.3 Ionic Liquid Based Polymer Electrolytes.

1.4 Crystalline Polymer Electrolytes.

References.

2 Advanced Inorganic Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
(Stephen J. Skinner and Miguel A. Laguna-Bercero).

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Next Generation SOFC Materials.

2.3 Materials Developments through Processing.

2.4 Proton Conducting Ceramic Fuel Cells.

2.5 Summary.

References.

3 Solar Energy Materials (Elizabeth A. Gibson and
Anders Hagfeldt).

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Development of PV Technology.

3.3 Summary.

Acknowledgements.

References.

4 Hydrogen Adsorption on Metal Organic Framework Materials
for Storage Applications (K. Mark Thomas and Wadysaw
Wieczorek).

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Hydrogen Adsorption Experimental Methods.

4.3 Activation of MOFs.

4.4 Hydrogen Adsorption on MOFs.

4.5 Conclusions.

Acknowledgements.

References.

Index.

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Professor Duncan Bruce graduated from the University of
Liverpool (UK), where he also gained his Ph D. In 1984, he took up a
Temporary Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of
Sheffield and was awarded a Royal Society Warren Research
Fellowship. He was then appointed Lecturer in Chemistry and was
promoted Senior Lecturer in 1994, in which year he became
co-director of the Sheffield Centre for Molecular Materials. In
1995, he was appointed Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the
University of Exeter. Following the closure of Exeter’s chemistry
department in 2005, Professor Bruce took up his present position as
Professor of Materials Chemistry in York. He is currently Chair of
the Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry Forum. His
current research interests include liquid crystals and
nanoparticle-doped, nanostructured, mesoporous silicates. His work
has been recognized by various awards including the British Liquid
Crystal Society’s first Young Scientist prize and the RSC’s Sir
Edward Frankland Fellowship and Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize. He
has held visiting positions in Australia, France, Japan and Italy.

Dr. Richard Walton, who was also formerly based in the
Department of Chemistry at the University of Exeter, now works in
the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. His
research group works in the area of solid-state materials chemistry
and has a number of projects focusing upon the synthesis,
structural characterization and properties of inorganic
materials.

Dermot O’Hare is Professor in the Chemistry Research
Laboratory at the University of Oxford. His research group has a
wide range of research interests. They all involve synthetic
chemistry ranging from organometallic chemistry to the synthesis of
new microporous solids.

Duncan Bruce and Dermot O’Hare have edited several editions of
‘Inorganic Materials’ published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.