Carbon nanotubes applications: Solar and fuel cells, hydrogen storage, lithium batteries, supercapacitors, nanocomposites, gas, pathogens, dyes, heavy metals and pesticides

Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 3-46

  Tan, Chin Wei ^a   Tan, Kok Hong ^a   Ong, Yit Thai ^a   Mohamed, Abdul Rahman ^a   Zein, Sharif Hussein Sharif ^a   Tan, Soon Huat ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Carbon nanotubes; Energy; Environmental monitoring; Nanocomposites; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOMECHANICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FUEL CELLS; FUEL STORAGE; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; GAS FUEL STORAGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEALTH RISKS; HEAVY METALS; HYDRIDES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN STORAGE; LITHIUM; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSENSORS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION; POLLUTION DETECTION; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STORAGE (MATERIALS); STRIPPING (DYES); SUPERCAPACITOR; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBES APPLICATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SUPERCAPACITOR; ENERGY; ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGES; ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HIGH SPECIFIC CAPACITANCES; HYDROGEN STORAGE CAPACITIES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84931346358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2442-6_1     Document Type: Chapter

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