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.
New materials hold the key to fundamental advances in energy conversion and storage, both of which are vital in order to meet the challenge of global warming and the finite nature of fossil fuels. Nanomaterials in particular offer unique properties or combinations of properties as electrodes and electrolytes in a range of energy devices.
For the application of energy generation, nanosized materials recorded two-time thermoelectric performance higher than those of conventional materials. Different energy applications: energy generation, storage, conversion, and saving up on nanomaterials substances (Wang et al. 2020)
This review takes a holistic approach to energy storage, considering battery materials that exhibit bulk redox reactions and supercapacitor materials that store charge owing to the surface processes together, because nanostructuring often leads to erasing boundaries between these two energy storage solutions.
In this review, the recent progress of nanostructured materials in electrochemical energy conversion and storage is reviewed. The advances in the energy materials for Li-ion, Li–S, and Li–O 2 batteries, supercapacitors and electrocatalysis (including oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) and oxygen evolution reactions (OER)) are involved.
Nanomaterials have the potential to revolutionize energy research in several ways, including more efficient energy conversion and storage, as well as enabling new technologies. One of the most exciting roles for nanomaterials, especially 2D materials, is in the fields of catalysis and energy storage.