1. Introduction. Limited availability of fossil energy resources and severe environmental pollution cause an intensive demand for alternative renewable clean energy resources, thereby boosting the development of energy storage and conversion devices, e.g. lithium metal batteries, fuel cells and capacitors [1].However, liquid organic …
3 · 2-dimensional (2D) piezoelectric materials have gained significant attention due to their potential applications in flexible energy harvesting and storage devices. …
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 …
In today''s world, carbon-based materials research is much wider wherein, it requires a lot of processing techniques to manufacture or synthesize. Moreover, the processing methods through …
In this review, we comprehensively summarize the current state-of-the-art development and progress in the synthesis of various MXene-based materials focusing on their performance and application as efficient electrocatalysts in different operating media of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and energy …
The flexoelectric effect, as a novel form of the electromechanical coupling phenomenon, has attracted significant attention in the fields of materials science and electronic devices. It refers to the interaction between strain gradients and electric dipole moments or electric field intensity gradients and strain. In contrast to the traditional …
The use of nanomaterials in energy storage devices improves the performance of the devices with its morphologies and properties like high surface area, tunable pore size, good ionic and …
SCs are therefore being thoroughly investigated in the field of energy storage, because of their large specific capacity, higher specific power, higher specific energy/capacity density, extremely long-life cycle, and environmental friendliness in comparison to batteries [127, 128].At the same time, a significant obstacle still exists in …
Electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems such as electrochemical capacitors, batteries and fuel cells are considered as the most important technologies proposing environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions to address rapidly growing global energy demands and environmental concerns. Their commercial …
Memristive technology has been rapidly emerging as a potential alternative to traditional CMOS technology, which is facing fundamental limitations in its development. Since oxide-based resistive …
The Review discusses the state-of-the-art polymer nanocomposites from three key aspects: dipole activity, breakdown resistance and heat tolerance for capacitive …
The review is divided into the areas of thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, mechanical harvesting, magnetic harvesting, multimode harvesting techniques, modeling of energy-harvesting materials and devices. Each of these sections starts with an overview and also contains a sub-section commenting on the role of nano-materials in this area …
Carbon nanotube-based materials are gaining considerable attention as novel materials for renewable energy conversion and storage. The novel optoelectronic properties of CNTs (e.g., exceptionally high surface area, thermal conductivity, electron mobility, and mechanical strength) can be advantageous for applications toward energy …
1. Introduction. The graphene successfully peeled from graphite in 2004 aroused tremendous research interests in two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, due to their unusual physical and chemical properties [1].Accordingly, 2D structures, such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and so forth, present great potential for …
Rajesh Kumar is recipient of Ramanujan fellowship award from Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, India to work in Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), Kanpur, India. He earned his PhD degree in Physics from Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. He is recipient of prestigious JSPS …
Electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems such as electrochemical capacitors, batteries and fuel cells are considered as the most important technologies proposing …
Transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) has been introduced as an emerging 2D materials.. MXenes are employed in a wide variety of areas including water splitting, batteries and other energy storage. • MXenes-based materials in the light of synthesis and applications are also discussed.
2.1 Solar photovoltaic systems. Solar energy is used in two different ways: one through the solar thermal route using solar collectors, heaters, dryers, etc., and the other through the solar electricity route using SPV, as shown in Fig. 1.A SPV system consists of arrays and combinations of PV panels, a charge controller for direct current …
Electrochemical supercapacitors (SCs) have innumerably met the demand for various energy storage applications by virtue of their excellent reversibility, swift …
In recent years, the development of energy storage devices has received much attention due to the increasing demand for renewable energy. Supercapacitors (SCs) have attracted considerable attention among various energy storage devices due to their high specific capacity, high power density, long cycle life, economic …
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