The two volumes of Handbook of Gas Sensor Materials provide a detailed and comprehensive account of materials for gas sensors, including the properties and relative advantages of various materials. Since these sensors can be applied for the automation of myriad industrial processes, as well as for everyday monitoring of such activities as public safety, engine performance, medical therapeutics, and in many other situations, this handbook is of great value. Gas sensor designers will find a treasure trove of material in these two books.

Momentum Press is proud to bring to you Chemical Sensors: Simulation and Modeling Volume 5: Electrochemical Sensors, edited by Ghenadii Korotcenkov. This is the fifth of a five-volume comprehensive reference work that provides computer simulation and modeling techniques in various fields of chemical sensing. The important applications for chemical sensing include such topics as bulk and surface diffusion, adsorption, surface reactions, sintering, conductivity, mass transport, and interphase interactions. In this fifth volume, you will find background and guidance on: Modeling and simulation...

This two-volume handbook provides a detailed and comprehensive account of materials for gas sensors, including the properties and relative advantages of various materials. Covers applications in public safety, engine performance, medical therapeutics and more.

This volume offers a detailed coverage of materials for gas sensors, including the properties and relative advantages of various materials. It provides an understanding of the fundamentals of sensor functioning as well as information about applications.

Metal Oxides in Energy Technologies provides, for the first time, a look at the wide range of energy applications of metal oxides. Metal oxides play an important role both in the production of energy through solar cells and in energy storage which is vital for the utilization of energy from renewable sources.

Divided into three sections, the book discusses energy generation applications, energy storage applications and the latest research of various other energy applications. Topics include metal oxides materials applications in batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, solar...

Metal Oxide-Based Thin Film Structures: Formation, Characterization and Application of Interface-Based Phenomena bridges the gap between thin film deposition and device development by exploring the synthesis, properties and applications of thin film interfaces.

Part I deals with theoretical and experimental aspects of epitaxial growth, the structure and morphology of oxide-metal interfaces deposited with different deposition techniques and new developments in growth methods. Part II concerns analysis techniques for the electrical, optical, magnetic and structural properties...

The Future of Semiconductor Oxides in Next-Generation Solar Cells begins with several chapters covering the synthesis of semiconductor oxides for NGSCs. Part II goes on to cover the types and applications of NGSCs currently under development, while Part III brings the two together, covering specific processing techniques for NGSC construction.

Finally, Part IV discusses the stability of SO solar cells compared to organic solar cells, and the possibilities offered by hybrid technologies. This comprehensive book is an essential reference for all those academics and...

The phase transition and the reversible optical and electrical switching that occur in chromogenic materials under the influence of external forces such as heat, light, and electric field are topics of enormous scientific interest. Transition Metal Oxide Thin Film-Based Chromogenics and Devices discusses experimental and theoretical developments in the field of chromogenics based on the transition metal oxide (TMO) thin films.

Understanding the relationship between the switching properties of TMO materials and their nanostructure is of paramount importance in developing...

Metal Oxides in Supercapacitors addresses the fundamentals of metal oxide-based supercapacitors and provides an overview of recent advancements in this area. Metal oxides attract most of the materials scientists use due to their excellent physico-chemical properties and stability in electrochemical systems. This justification for the usage of metal oxides as electrode materials in supercapacitors is their potential to attain high capacitance at low cost.

After providing the principles, the heart of the book discusses recent advances, including: binary metal oxides-based...

Magnetic, Ferroelectric, and Multiferroic Metal Oxides covers the fundamental and theoretical aspects of ferroics and magnetoelectrics, their properties and important technological applications.

Ferroelectric materials are used to make capacitors with high dielectric constant, transducers and actuators. Their hysteresis properties which result in two stable state of opposite polarization also make them ideal for memory applications. Similarly, ferromagnetic materials are used in many industrial applications, such as sensors, read heads, and memories based on giant...