Porous Ceramics for Energy-Related Applications

Content of Teaching and Examination General introduction to porous materials. Definition: porosity, pore size, surface area, pore volume. Ordered porosity, hierarchical porosity. Porosity determination: experiment and modeling Synthesis of porous ceramics: focus on the application-related porosity tailoring and functionalization. Properties of porous ceramics: focus on the thermal/hydrothermal/chemical stability of the porosity Applications of porous ceramics: past, state-of-the art and future technologies. Porous materials in batteries Porous materials in fuel cells and supercapacitors. Porous materials for gas storage Porous membranes for gas separation Learning Outcomes, Qualification, and Competence Aims Immense research has been carried out on the synthesis and application of hierarchically organized porous solids over the last decade. This subject has become a hot topic and it will continue to prosper due to the variety of important, energy related applications such as charge and gas storage media and membrane supports. This course aims at instructing students in a systematic, interdisciplinary and practice-oriented way about the application of porous ceramics in energy-related technologies It bridges the gap between the different "ways of thinking" in material science, chemistry and electrochemistry. It provides a firm grounding for advanced students who will gain a broad general overview on porous materials and a detailed knowledge on the processing and applications of this materials group. Literature: 1. Liu, P.S. and G.F. Chen, Porous Materials. 2014, Butterworth-Heinemann: Boston. Chapters 1,5,6,9,10 2. Espinal, L., Porosity and Its Measurement, in Characterization of Materials. 2012, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 3. Su, B.-L., Hierarchically Structured Porous Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage, in Hierarchically Structured Porous Materials. 2011, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. 5. Thommes, M., et al., Physisorption of gases, with special reference to the evaluation of surface area and pore size distribution (IUPAC Technical Report). Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2015. 87(9-10): p. 1051. 6. Wejrzanowski, T., et al., Appropriate models for simulating open-porous materials. 2017, 2017. 36(2): p. 6. 7. Schwieger, W., et al., Hierarchy concepts: classification and preparation strategies for zeolite containing materials with hierarchical porosity. Chemical Society Reviews, 2016. 45(12): p. 3353-3376. 8. Feinle, A., M.S. Elsaesser, and N. Husing, Sol-gel synthesis of monolithic materials with hierarchical porosity. Chemical Society Reviews, 2016. 45(12): p. 3377-3399.