Nanotechnology in Fuel Cells

Huaihe Song is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Materials and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He has 28 years of experience in the field of carbon materials research. His research area is in the preparation of advanced carbon materials and their applications, including pitch-based carbon materials (mesophase pitch and mesocarbon microbeads), carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon-encapsulated metal nanomaterials, and onion-like carbons), carbon-based materials for energy storage (lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors), and mesoporous carbons (ordered mesoporous carbons and carbon aerogels). Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience. Ghulam Yasin is a researcher in the School of Environment and Civil Engineering at Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China. His expertise covers the design and development of hybrid devices and technologies of carbon nanostructures and advanced nanomaterials for for real-world impact in energy-related and other functional applications.

• Section 1 Basic principles1. Nanotechnology-based fuel cells: an introduction 2. Microfluidic concept-based fuel cells3. Alcohol fuel cell on-a-chip4. General aspects in the modeling of fuel cells: from conventional fuel cells to nano fuel cells5. Mathematical modeling for fuel cellsSection 2 Nanostructures for fuel cells6. Nanomaterials for fuel cells7. Nanostructures and nanomaterials in microbial fuel cells8. Metal-organic frameworks for fuel cell technologies9. Advanced carbon-based nanostructured materials for fuel cells10. Covalent organic framework-based materials as electrocatalysts for fuel cells11. Nano-inks for fuel cells12. Nanomaterial and nanocatalysts in microbial fuel cells13. Nanomembranes in fuel cells14. Shape-controlled metal nanoparticles for fuel cells applications15. Fuel cells recycling16. Micro/nanostructures for biofilm establishment in microbial fuel cells17. Nanomaterials in biofuel cells