Electrochemical analysis and energy storage applications of nanomaterials

Why are multifunctional nanomaterials important?

Multifunctional nanomaterials play an important task in energy production, energy exchange, energy storage, energy economy, and energy spread applications due to their exceptional properties, such as outstanding electron transportation ability and thermal conductivity, high surface/volume area, and chemical stability.

What are inorganic nanomaterials used for?

Specific attention is given to inorganic nanomaterials for advanced energy storage, conservation, transmission, and conversion applications, which strongly rely on the optical, mechanical, thermal, catalytic, and electrical properties of energy materials.

Can nanomaterials improve the performance of energy storage devices?

The development of nanomaterials and their related processing into electrodes and devices can improve the performance and/or development of the existing energy storage systems. We provide a perspective on recent progress in the application of nanomaterials in energy storage devices, such as supercapacitors and batteries.

What is research on multifunctional nanomaterials?

Research on multifunctional nanomaterials investigates how a material's structure affects all of its characteristics, including its fabrication and design processes , . There are a few hurdles in the way of using inorganic multifunctional nanomaterials for advanced energy applications.

Which nanomaterials are used in energy storage?

Although the number of studies of various phenomena related to the performance of nanomaterials in energy storage is increasing year by year, only a few of them—such as graphene sheets, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), carbon black, and silicon nanoparticles—are currently used in commercial devices, primarily as additives (18).

How surface chemistry can deal with nanomaterials?

Since conversion of energy requires physical interaction in between surface of electrode, specific surface area, surface energy, and surface chemistry can deal with nanomaterial because they are having high surface to volume ratio, because of small dimension of the material they are more favourable for charge transport (Zhang et al. 2013).