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Nanomaterials for Energy Storage: Latest Advances and Prospects

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Advanced Energy Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 4185

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Sami-ullah Rather

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Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
Interests: energy storage of nanomaterials; highly porous materials and composites; nanocatalytic adsorption of hydrogen; development of novel metallic organic frameworks (MOFs) and ionic liquids (ILs) for CO2 capture
Dr. Cheng-Yu Wang

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, EF358, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
Interests: porous materials; surface modification; catalysis; gas adsorption/separation; hydrogen energy storage materials
Dr. Mohammad Ismail

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Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology and Informatics, University Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus 21030, Terengganu, Malaysia
Interests: nanostructured materials; nanomaterials; advanced materials
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

To sustain rapid growth of technology in the future, the efficient use of energy is a key aspect. Rapid depletion of carbon-based fossil fuels and increased environmental pollution makes it inevitable that we will shift from non-renewable fossil fuels to potent, dependable, and renewable energy sources for sustainable development.

Nanotechnology and nanomaterials have been part of human life for many decades, directly or indirectly. For the last three decades, with advances in the technology, the true potential of nanomaterials has been realized in fields ranging from engineering to medicine. Nanostructured materials provide a huge surface area to volume ratio, controllable physical and chemical characteristics, size allocation, surface morphology, and crystallinity. These characteristics are currently utilized for interconnected energy applications including hydrogen uptake, CO2 capture, solar cells, catalysts, and batteries. Solid state hydrogen storage and CO2 capture in nanoporous materials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), metallic organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and zeolites is the clean, versatile, and safest renewable energy for the wide range of transport and industrial applications. In parallel, various other energy storage systems such as thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic, and electrochemical are also in place to strengthen the generation of sustainable energy sources. In the future, materials with nanosized particles, along with porous and cavities structures, will play an important role as far as energy storage is concerned

This Special Issue will highlight the execution of nanostructured materials for energy storage in the field of engineering, medicine, nanotechnology, physics and chemistry. The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the scientific, technical and engineering challenges we face in the transition from nonrenewable energy sources to renewable energy sources. We invite researchers and academics globally to devote original research manuscripts, rapid communications, and reviews in order to elucidate the progress of porous nanomaterials to uptake various kinds of gases in order to find a solution for the depletion of fossil fuels and consequent global warming effects.

Subtopics:

  • Preparation and characterization of nanostructured materials;
  • Synthesis, characterization, and applications of porous materials such as CNTs, MOFs, COFs and zeolites;
  • Nanomaterials for lithium-ion batteries;
  • Photovoltaic conversion of the solar energy to clean renewable energy;
  • Energy storage devices such as Li-ion Batteries and capacitors;
  • Hydrogen and fuel cells;
  • Energy storage in nanostructured materials;
  • Nanoporous materials for energy conversion;
  • Hydrogen storage in nanostructured carbons;
  • Energy storage in Metal doped carbon nanotubes and metal organic frameworks.

Prof. Dr. Sami-ullah Rather
Dr. Cheng-Yu Wang
Dr. Mohammad Ismail
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • hydrogen storage
  • CO2 capture
  • energy storage
  • batteries
  • nanomaterials
  • carbon nanotubes
  • metallic-organic frameworks (MOFs)
  • metal hydrides and alloys
  • energy conversion and storage
  • fuel cells
  • nanomaterial synthesis
  • nanostructured oxides and composites

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Economic and Technical Analysis of a Hybrid Dry Cooling Cycle to Replace Conventional Wet Cooling Towers for High Process Cooling Loads
by Aqeel Ahmad Taimoor, Usman Saeed, Sami-ullah Rather, Saad Al-Shahrani, Hisham S. Bamufleh, Hesham Alhumade, Aliyu Adebayo Sulaimon, Walid M. Alalayah and Azmi Mohd Shariff
Energies 2022, 15(21), 7986; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15217986 - 27 Oct 2022
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Scarcity has made fresh water too economically and socially too valuable to be used by the processing industry without restriction. Wet evaporative cooling cycles offer competitive advantages in terms of CoP compared to other cooling cycles with relatively low cost but requiring extensive [...] Read more.
Scarcity has made fresh water too economically and socially too valuable to be used by the processing industry without restriction. Wet evaporative cooling cycles offer competitive advantages in terms of CoP compared to other cooling cycles with relatively low cost but requiring extensive quantities of water. Dry cooling, on the other hand, requires large heat-transfer areas, in addition to high power requirements. In this study, a hybrid cycle is proposed for high-end cooling loads of 215 MW. The proposed cycle combines the benefits of phase change to make dry cycles competitive. Furthermore, the proposed cycle also diminishes the extensive use of various chemicals used in wet cooling cycles. The applicable dry bulb temperature range is 25–50 °C. Variations in cooling fluid cold temperature due to ambient conditions are curtailed to a maximum of 2 °C by the proposed cycle. A technoeconomic comparison of the proposed solution to wet evaporative cooling is presented, and the effects are summarized without providing extensive design calculations. ASPEN modules are used design and simulation. Full article
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Rotating Flow and Heat Transfer of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube and Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Nanofluid with Base Fluid Water over a Stretching Sheet
by Syed Muhammad Ali Haider, Bagh Ali, Qiuwang Wang and Cunlu Zhao
Energies 2022, 15(16), 6060; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15166060 - 21 Aug 2022
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In this article, numerical simulations of the rotational flow of water-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nanofluid containing single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) and hybrid nanofluid containing single- and multiple-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT-MWCNT) over a stretching sheet are performed. The primary goal is to improve thermal transport [...] Read more.
In this article, numerical simulations of the rotational flow of water-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nanofluid containing single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) and hybrid nanofluid containing single- and multiple-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT-MWCNT) over a stretching sheet are performed. The primary goal is to improve thermal transport efficiency due to CNTs extraordinary thermal conductivity. The 3D governing equations for microorganism concentration, energy, momentum, concentration, and mass conservation are transformed into 1D ordinary differentiation via similarity transformations. In a MATLAB environment, the resultant system of equations (ODEs) are then solved using Runge–Kutta fourth order with the shooting process. Tables and graphs were used to show the results of physical parameters. According to our findings, enhancing the rotational parameter λ and the magnetic field M reduce the base fluid velocity along the x-axis, and on the other hand, the opposite tendency is shown along the y-axis. Furthermore, the velocities, temperature, and microorganism concentration profiles of hybrid nanofluid (SWCNT−MWCNT/H2O) are found to be higher than those of mono nanofluid (H2O+SWCNT), while the concentration profile is found to be lower. Full article
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