Materials for a Sustainable Future - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849734070 ISBN 13: 9781849734073

Verlag: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012

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Sustainability is becoming more and more important in our everyday lives and this book is a non-exhaustive look at materials and how they relate to sustainability. This concerns not only the elements that could be in short supply in the near future, such as phosphorus, helium, some rare earths and platinum metals, but also the pollutants such as carbon dioxide and methane which are being produced in sufficiently large quantities to be a threat to our lives on Earth. Covering fives themes in twenty five chapters, one of the great advantages of this book is that the chapters have been written by scientists or engineers who are experts in their field and include up-to-date statistics, recent research, and references to the latest work. The book includes chapters concerning chemicals and materials that might soon be required in large quantities to help create a more sustainable way of life. These include: biomass needed to manufacture plastics; special compounds and membranes for water purification, water-splitting, photovoltaic cells, batteries and fuel cells; and special materials for buildings, glass technologies and for storing hydrogen. Aimed at industrialists and investors; policy makers in local and central governments; students, teachers, scientists and engineers working in the field; and finally editors, journalists and the general public who need information on the increasingly popular concepts of sustainable living, this book provides current information and points the way forward for new developments. This book is about the materials in our society and how they relate to sustainability. This includes materials that need to be conserved, renewable materials, pollutants that can be used in new processes, and materials designed to optimize the sustainable use of resources. Aimed at students, lecturers, researchers, and policy makers, this work describes current developments in all relevant fields and points the way forward for new developments. Each of the twenty five chapters is written by an expert from the discipline concerned and contains a list of recent references. Materials for a Sustainable Future enables the reader to appreciate the consequences of exhausting scarce materials and of polluting the planet with green-house gases. It also describes how chemistry can be used to maintain the resources we have.

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Professor Trevor M. Letcher is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a past-Director of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics and his research involves the thermodynamics of liquid mixtures and energy from landfill. He has published over 250 publications in peer review journals and edited and co-edited 8 books in his research fields. His latest edited and co-edited books are: Heat Capacities (2010), Climate Change (2009) and Waste (2011). Janet Scott is the co-ordinator of the University of Bath Doctoral Training Centre in Sustainable Chemical Technologies and a Senior Research Fellow. She has held lectureships at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (1992-1995, concurrently with her PhD studies) and Monash University, Australia where she was also the Deputy Director of the ARC funded Centre for Green Chemistry. She has also held positions in industry as R&D Manager, Fine Chemicals Corporation, South Africa and as Marie Curie Senior Transfer of Knowledge Fellow held at Unilever R&D, Port Sunlight, UK, followed by a period as Director of a consulting company (continuing). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a previous recipient of the Royal Australian Chemical Society's Green Chemistry prize.

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Sustainability is becoming more and more important in our everyday lives and this book is a non-exhaustive look at materials and how they relate to sustainability. This concerns not only the elements that could be in short supply in the near future, such as phosphorus, helium, some rare earths and platinum metals, but also the pollutants such as carbon dioxide and methane which are being produced in sufficiently large quantities to be a threat to our lives on Earth. Covering fives themes in twenty five chapters, one of the great advantages of this book is that the chapters have been written by scientists or engineers who are experts in their field and include up-to-date statistics, recent research, and references to the latest work. The book includes chapters concerning chemicals and materials that might soon be required in large quantities to help create a more sustainable way of life. These include: biomass needed to manufacture plastics; special compounds and membranes for water purification, water-splitting, photovoltaic cells, batteries and fuel cells; and special materials for buildings, glass technologies and for storing hydrogen. Aimed at industrialists and investors; policy makers in local and central governments; students, teachers, scientists and engineers working in the field; and finally editors and journalists who need information on the increasingly popular concepts of sustainable living, this book provides current information and points the way forward for new developments.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1849734070
• ISBN 13: 9781849734073
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 791
• Herausgeber: Letcher Trevor M., Scott Janet L.
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