Atomic layer deposition, a unique method for the preparation of energy conversion devices
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Most of the technical development of the 19th and 20th centuries relied on thermal engines to generate mechanical or electrical work from the combustion of fossil fuels [1]. This strategy of energy production is not renewable, in that finite resources are consumed and greenhouse gases are emitted, and it is also fundamentally inefficient as defined by Carnot. In a more modern strategy which circumvents those disadvantages of thermal machines, energy is converted directly from solar (or some other renewable source) to its electrical or chemical form [2]. Here, fuels still play a fundamental role as energy carriers for the storage and the regulation of the electrical power grid, but they are converted to other energy forms by electrochemical methods rather than thermal engines.
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