Applied Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 2: From Energy Storage to Photofunctional Materials

This work provides the broad range of applications of inorganic compounds. Due to their well defined properties they play an important role in many fields either on a large scale in our daily life or as niche products. Experts from industry and academia present the vast amount of distinguished materials focusing on their synthesis and function. Volume 2 covers e.g. electronic, magnetic, biomedical, carbon- and sulfur-based materials and ceramics. Preface 5 Contents 7 List of contributors 15 5 Energy storage and conversion 25 5.1 Battery materials 25 5.2 Magnetocaloric materials 36 5.3 Materials for thermoelectric devices 50 5.4 Hydrogen storage materials 63 5.5 Solar cell materials 78 5.6 Thermal energy storage materials 93 5.7 High-energy materials 105 5.8 Nuclear materials 120 6 Ionic solids 125 6.1 Resources: minerals, recycling and urban mining 125 6.2 Phosphates 155 6.3 Borate applications 177 6.4 Slags as materials resource 190 6.5 Salts in nutrition products 203 6.6 Fertilizers 216 6.7 Natural and synthetic gemstones 242 7 Catalytic and active framework materials 257 7.1 Homogeneous catalysis 257 7.2 Heterogeneous catalysts 288 7.3 Zeolites for ion exchange, adsorption and catalysis 303 7.4 Metal-organic frameworks 328 8 Photofunctional materials 337 8.1 Solid-state lighting materials 337 8.2 Upconverters 355 8.3 Organometallic Ir(III) and Pt(II) complexes in phosphorescent OLEDs: an industrial perspective 366 8.4 Luminescent thermometry materials 383 8.5 Crystals for solid-state lasers 395 8.6 NLO materials 431 8.7 Excimer, mercury and sodium dischargers 478 8.8 Inorganic scintillators 494 Subject index 505 Formula index 521 Many elements and inorganic compounds play an extraordinary role in daily life for numerous applications, e. g., construction materials, inorganic pigments, inorganic coatings, steel, glass, technical gases, energy storage and conversion materials, fertilizers, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, photofunctional materials, semiconductors, superconductors, soft- and hard magnets, technical ceramics, hard materials, or biomedical and bioactive materials. The present book is written by experienced authors who give a comprehensive overview on the many chemical and physico-chemical aspects related to application of inorganic compounds and materials in order to introduce senior undergraduate and postgraduate students (chemists, physicists, materials scientists, engineers) into this broad field. Volume 2 discusses energy storage, ionic solids, catalytic materials and photofunctional materials. Vol. 1. From Construction Materials to Technical Gases. Vol. 3. From Magnetic to Bioactive Materials.