Introduction to advanced energy storage materials

What materials are used in Advanced Energy Systems?

While taking economic and regulatory aspects into account, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the range of materials used for advanced energy systems, including fossil, nuclear, solar, bio, wind, geothermal, ocean and hydropower, hydrogen, and nuclear, as well as thermal energy storage and electrochemical storage in fuel cells.

What are the strategies for developing advanced energy storage materials?

The strategies for developing these advanced energy storage materials, including nanostructuring, nano-/microcombination, hybridization, pore-structure control, configuration design, surface modification, and composition optimization, are discussed.

Why do we need advanced energy storage materials?

To fulfill the newly emerging applications, such as powering EVs/HEVs and portable electronics, advanced energy storage materials with superior integrated performance that enables high energy and power density and environmentally benign, convenient, and flexible storage of energy are highly demanded.

What are the state-of-the-art advances in energy storage materials?

The state-of-the-art progresses on hydrogen storage materials, electrode materials of LIBs, and electrode materials of supercapacitors are presented in Sections 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Section 5 is the summary and outlook for future research and development of advanced energy storage materials.

What is thermal energy storage?

Thermal energy storage is another method for adjusting the time discrepancy between power supply and demand. Excess thermal energy is stored in a material as sensible or latent heat by warming up or melting the material.

What are the requirements for thermal energy storage materials?

The candidates of thermal energy storage materials should satisfy thermal, physical, chemical, economic, and environmental requirements, described as follows: Chemical requirements: high chemical stability, no degradation, noncorrosive to the construction material, nontoxic, nonflammable, and nonexplosive; Economic requirements: cheap and abundant;