2^nd International Conference on Energy Materials and Fuel Cell Research August 27-28, 2018 (World Energy Congress) Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Whereas the 19th century was the century of the steam engine and the 20th century was the century of the internal combustion engine, it is likely that the 21st century will be the century of the fuel cell. Full cells are now on the verge of being introduced commercially, revolutionizing the way we presently produce power. Fuel cells can use hydrogen as a fuel, offering the prospect of supplying the world with clean, sustainable electrical power. This Track discusses the history of fuel cells, fuel cells for NASA, alkaline fuel cells for terrestrial applications and PEM fuel cells. Fuel cell applications in transportation, distributed power generation, residential and portable power are discussed. The science of the PEM fuel cell and the direct methanol fuel cell will be discussed.

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are the most efficient known energy conversion device for producing electricity from a variety of fuels, including renewable biomass, hydrogen, or natural gas, with no pollution-forming emissions. However, their use remains severely limited by high costs, as well as by low durability and reliability. Current projects are aimed at lowering the cost and improving the durability of fuel cells through the use of new materials and processing techniques to produce fuel cells more rapidly using a process that is easily scaleable for mass production. Work is also focused on understanding the electrochemical performance and degradation behaviour of SOFCs, in order to develop strategies to increase their durability.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and a promising solution to the world's oil dependence. Hydrogen has many applications in the energy market. First, because of hydrogen's combustive nature, it can be used directly in an internal combustion engine, replacing the need for automotive gasoline. Second, it can be stored in fuel cells to create electricity, providing another power source for a vehicle. They are also used to power and heat buildings. Third, it can replace natural gas in its application to heating and cooling homes. In addition, it could also be used to turn the turbines that bring electricity to homes. With applications in distributed generation and electric vehicles, the hydrogen economy is a revolutionary new field that has the potential to change how we live.

The comparatively recent shift toward exploitation nano technology with regard to the capture, transfer, and storage of energy has positive economic impacts on society. The management of materials that nano technology offers to scientists and engineers is one amongst the vital aspects of nano technology. Nano technology in energy materials is exhibiting raised potency of lighting and heating, increased electrical storage capability, and a decrease in the quantity of pollution from the utilization of energy.  Advantages like these build the investment of capital in R&D of nano technology a prime priority.

We thought long and hard over advances in materials science over the last 50 years. We sought the advice of our editorial advisory panel and asked leaders in the field to add their own contributions. We hope the results are interesting and thought-provoking. In making the final selection, we have tried to focus on the advances that have either changed our lives or are in the process of changing them. Should an advance alter all our daily lives, or does fundamentally changing the research arena count? What about discoveries that can be clearly attributed to a certain date and investigator, or those developments that have come about incrementally through the efforts of many? Where does materials science stop and electronics, physics, or chemistry begin?

With the advent of more stringent regulations related to emissions, fuel economy, and global warming, as well as energy resource constraints, electric, hybrid, and fuel-cell vehicles have attracted increasing attention from vehicle constructors, governments, and consumers. Research and development efforts have focused on developing advanced powertrains and efficient energy systems. This Track reviews the state of the art for electric, hybrid, and fuel-cell vehicles, with a focus on architectures and modeling for energy management. Although classic modeling approaches have often been used, new systemic approaches that allow better understanding of the interaction between the numerous subsystems have recently been introduced.

This track intents to eventually cover the main aspects of the science of energy materials and devices that are paving the road towards the highly effectual, stable organic and organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells necessary for mass production; Contributions concerning materials synthesis, photophysics, device physics, modeling and any related issues will be discussed. It aims to provide an interdisciplinary global opportunity for researchers, educators, technocrats, students, engineers and industry to present their latest research results, innovations, products and activities.

This track aims to provide a platform for knowledge sharing as well as creating favorable atmosphere for collaboration initiations in the field of Green Energy Materials. The broad scope brings together a wide range of research areas including Synthesis, Characterization, Modifications/functionalization and applications of Green Energy materials as well as Materials for energy saving and sustainability.

World-renowned researchers are working in overdrive to develop advanced energy storage technologies to aid the growth of the U.S. battery manufacturing industry, transition the U.S. automotive fleet to plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, and enable greater use of renewable energy. We are building upon our historical leadership in battery research to create a broad platform for demonstrating the development program centered on advanced energy storage materials and systems for both mobile and stationary applications.

This Track aims to be a unique platform for leading scientists, researchers, scholars and engineers from academia, R&D laboratories and industry around the world to exchange, share and learn the most recent advancement on various aspects related to fabrication, characteristics and application of grapheme and 2D materials.

The demand for fuel cells is being driven by an increasing awareness and demand for zero emission energy sources. The global fuel cell market is segmented firstly on the basis of its applications such as portable, transportation, and stationary applications. Secondly, it is segmented on the basis of technology such as Polymer/Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell, Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, and Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell, among others. Lastly, the market is segmented on the basis of geography such as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of World. Each region has been analyzed with respect to its market trends, growth, and future prospective of the fuel cell market. The data has been analyzed during the period 2012 to 2019. The global fuel cell market size is estimated to reach $5.20 billion, by 2019. The unit shipments of fuel cells are expected to increase from 62,197 units in 2013, to 214,369 by 2019.

Functional bio nano materials like carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, fullerenes, soft, polymeric nanoparticles, metal organic nano materials, self-assembled and supramolecular nanostructures, and their derivatives have distinctive physico-chemical properties like catalytic, dielectric, optical and mechanical. Applications are sensors, drug delivery, proteomics and biomolecular electronics. Especially, their biological applications have furthered elementary understanding of bio molecular systems like vesicles, viruses and cells, stimulated design of nano materials with biological functions. The last ones are ordinarily referred to as bioinspired nanomaterials or biomimetic.

Materials are characterized into mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical and magnetic properties. Materials that exhibit special and unique optical and magnetic effects are utilized in various industries and in fundamental and pure research. The near future holds breakthrough dimensions in optics and photonics fields. Take the example of semiconductors recently; The applications of semiconductors in energy saving systems embrace superior sensible grid, electrical power transmission, transformers, power storage devices, fault current limiters, etc.. Replacing vehicle chassis with lighter weight materials by increasing strength to weight ratio is being researched.

Using appropriate electronics, piezo electrical effect is used for making a self-sustaining energy supply system. This is of explicit interest whenever power supply via cable isn't feasible and therefore the use of batteries associated maintenance expenditure don't seem to be desired. The application of piezoelectricity harvesting is anticipated to extend considerably in oil and gas production because it may be a cost-efficient variant to wired infrastructure. Asia Pacific and North American countries are expected to indicate higher growth in the thermo electricity energy harvesting market over the forecast period.

Nanotechnology is the collaboration of the physics, chemistry, biology, computer and material sciences integrated with engineering entering the nanoscale which range between 1-150nm. This means science and engineering focused on making the particles, things and devices at the atomic and molecular scale. The properties of nanomaterials differ from those of bulk materials having unique optical, electronic and mechanical properties. Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are designed and produced with novel physicochemical properties for a specific application from minerals and other chemical substance. Nanomaterial research is a material science based approach to nanotechnology which has its application in healthcare, electronics, cosmetics, optics, catalysis, pharmaceutics, energy conservation and other fields. The latest field of research on nanotechnology include Nano-optics and nanophotonic, Nanotoxicology and Nano safety, Graphene lenses and their applications, 5Nanobubbles technology, Recent technologies in medical imaging, Ultralight materials, etc,. Another important aspect of nanomaterials is Carbon Nano materials, which are an enabler for technology with seemingly endless potential applications: detecting cancer before it spreads, self-repairing buildings and bridges, filtering water, and powering mobile devices from body heat or movement.  Carbon nanotubes are incredibly small and incredibly strong, 100 times stronger than steel at one-sixth of the density and 10,000 times smaller than one human hair. Graphene is a carbon membrane that, at just one atom thick, is stronger than steel and can tolerate of wide temperature and pH ranges.

The global nanotechnology-based medical devices market is expected to grow at a significant CAGR of around 11-12% during the forecast period (2014–2019). This report studies the global nanoparticle analysis market over the forecast period of 2015 to 2020. The market is expected to reach USD 91.1 Million by 2020, at CAGR of 5.4% from 2015 to 2020.