Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract/Objectives

This course focuses on progress and challenges of energy technology from a materials science approach. It begins with introduction to renewable and sustainable energy and moves forward to discuss the principles of several energy devices, including energy storage, energy transformation, and energy harvesting devices. It then describes the roles of materials science on the performance of those devices.

Results/Contributions

This course is a graduate-level elective course. The course begins with an overview of sustainable energy to give students a preliminary understanding of the development of sustainable energy. Then, the course mainly focuses on introducing energy storage devices, including their operating principles and energy storage mechanisms. From the perspectives of thermodynamics and kinetics, understanding the mechanisms is essential for effectively proposing directions to improve the performance of the devices. Next, several common green energy devices are introduced, including solar cells, fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, and hydrogen storage, among others. At the end of the semester, students form groups to present a project report (both oral presentation and writing essay), where they utilize the content learned in class and their creativity to propose an original idea to improve certain aspects of the energy technologies introduced in class.

Keywords

Sustainable energygreen energyenergy storageenergy generation

References

Contact Information

葉哲寧助理教授
cnyeh@mx.nthu.edu.tw