Preface -- Chapter 1. Promising Clean Energy Development: Practice, Challenges and Policy Implications (Sajid Bashir, Sai Chava, Weixin Song, Yong-jun Gao and Jingbo Louise Liu) -- Chapter 2. Applications and Fundamentals of Photocatalysis With Solar Energy (Qiuyang Huang, Dan Kong, Yongdan Li) -- Chapter 3. Functional Nucleic Acid Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaic Cells: Design, Fabrication, and Performance (Dan Bai, Huhu Feng, Xingchen Yu, Chenxin Ran, Wei Huang) -- Chapter 4. First-Principles Calculations for the Interfaces of Perovskite Solar Cells (Jun-Peng An, Ying Tian, Hong-Tao Xue, Jun-Chen Li, Jun-Qiang Ren, Xue-Feng Lu, Fu-Ling Tang) -- Chapter 5. Clean Hydrogen Production Technologies (Mohammad Yusuf, Mohamad Sahban Alnarabiji, Bawadi Abdullah) -- Chapter 6. Thermal Hydrogen Compression Based on Metal Hydride Materials (Claudio Corgnale, Robert C. Bowman, Jr., Theodore Motyka) -- Chapter 7. Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performed by Ru-Based Catalysts (J. Uribe-Godínez, A. Altamirano-Gutiérrez) -- Chapter 8. Direct Catalytic Low-Temperature Conversion of CO2 and Methane to Oxygenates (Ashraf Abedin, James J. Spivey) -- Chapter 9. Heat Transfer Analysis in Solar Thermal Collectors (Pankaj Kalita, Dudul Das, Samar Das, Rabindra Kangsha Banik, Urbashi Bordoloi) -- Chapter 10. Heat Transfer Fluids in Concentrating Solar Power Systems, Principle & Practice (Elise B. Fox, Sai Raghuveer Chava, Jingbo Liu, and Sajid Bashir) -- Chapter 11. Electrocatalysis for the Water Splitting: recent strategies for improving the performance of electrocatalyst (Tanveer ul Haq and Yousef Haik) -- Chapter 12. Future of Electrochemical Energy Storage and Its Impact on The Transition Metals (Nazmul Huda, Shahjadi Hisan Farjana) -- Chapter 13. The Application in Energy Storage and Electrocatalyst of Vanadium (Based) Oxides (Yue Wang, Fan Li, Sajid Bashir, Jingbo Louise Liu) -- Chapter 14. Water-Stable Metal-Organic Frameworks for Water Adsorption (Xuan Wang, Charles Lee) -- Chapter 15. Supercapacitors: History, Theory, Emerging Technologies and Applications (Yiyang Liu, Paul R. Shearing, Guanjie He and Dan J. L. Brett) -- Chapter 16. Interlayer Structural Engineering of 2D MXene for Electrochemical Energy Storage (Jianmin Luo) -- Chapter 17. The Role of Ex-Situ Solid-Electrolyte-Interphase in Lithium Metal Batteries (Rajesh Pathak, Yue Zhou, & Qiquan Qiao) -- Chapter 18. 3D X-Ray Characterization of Energy Storage and Conversion Devices (Chun Tan, Andrew S. Leach, Thomas M. M. Heenan, Rhodri Jervis, Dan J.L. Brett, Paul R. Shearing) -- Chapter 19. In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy for Studying Lithium-Ion Batteries (Chen Gong†, Shengda Pu†, Alex W. Robertson) -- Chapter 20. Clean Coal Conversion Processes - The Present and Future Challenges (E. Gerald Meyer, Sai Raghuveer Chava, Jingbo Liu, and Sajid Bashir) -- Chapter 21. Coal Gasification with Exergy Recuperation and CO2 Recovery (Zhongkai Zhao, Yohanes Andre Situmorang, Atsushi Tsutsumi, Xiaogang Hao, Abuliti Abudula, and Guoqing Guan) -- Chapter 22. Lignin and Lignocellulosic Materials: A Glance-On the Current Opportunities for Ene.rgy and Sustainability (Marwa El-Azazy, Sajid Bashir, Jingbo L. Liu, Mohamed F. Shibl) -- Chapter 23. Municipal Solid Waste Incineration and Sustainable Development (Beatriz S. Bandarra, Margarida J. Quina) -- Chapter 24. Microbial Fuel Cells: Design and Evaluation of Catalysts and Device (Sajid Bashir, Shawn P. Mulvaney, William Houf, Luis Villanueva, Zhaohui Wang, Gregory Buck, Jingbo Louise Liu) -- Chapter 25. Smart Energy Trend Observation (Rui Guan, Yunchuan Wan, Sai Raghuveer Chava‡, Jingbo Liu,† Sajid Bashir† and Gao Yongjun) -- Chapter 26. Materials in Renewable Energy: Overview (Ran Wei Yongjun Gao, Zhihua Wu, Sai Raghuveer Chava‡, Jingbo Liu† and Sajid Bashir†) -- Chapter 27. PostFace: Conclusion on Renewable energy strategies for a sustainable future (Weixin Song*, Yongjun Gao, Sajid Bashir, Jingbo Louise Li) -- Index.