Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Electrodes
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2769
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Interests: nanomaterials; electrochemistry; energy conversion and storage; catalysis
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Interests: nanomaterials; electrochemistry; electrochemical supercapacitors; catalysis
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Interests: nanomaterials; energy conversion and storage; electrochemistry; biosensors; electrocatalysis
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Interests: batteries; supercapacitors; organic batteries; polymer electrolyte
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy storage devices, especially supercapacitors (SCs) and batteries are the main chemical-based modern sources widely used in our daily life, for example in starting vehicles and children's toys. However, the increasing demand for these devices is concerning due to the dependency of everything on energy. To avoid these problems, researchers are continuously searching for an alternative to fossil fuels, such as an electrochemical supercapacitors, fuel cells, and batteries. Developing efficient materials for energy storage applications, especially for supercapacitors and batteries which are the most promising and important power sources used in daily life, has attracted much attention. However, the SCs performance depends on the electrode, i.e., active material, the current collector behavior including electrical conductivity, surface area, porosity, electrochemical activity, and morphological geometries which directly affect the performance of the SCs. Therefore, the selection of the perfectly effective electrode development is highly important as its acts as a bridge between the active materials and the outer terminal during the energy storage process. Therefore, various types of current collectors have been used such as two-dimensional carbon paper, metal-based meshes, metal-based wires, steel mesh, graphite rods, three-dimensional nickel foam, etc. Among them, the three-dimensional electrodes have gained considerable attention for the development of energy storage devices due to a high surface area, excellent electrical conductivity, controllable pore size, low cost, highly stable, three-dimensional structure, etc. The large surface area and three-dimensional structure are helpful when interacting with the electrolyte during the electrochemical process; whereas, the porosity reduces the path length of the ionic diffusion which enhances the overall performance of the electrodes.
Dr. Sajid Ali Ansari
Dr. Nazish Parveen
Dr. Md. Mahbubur Rahman
Dr. Ziyauddin Khan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- energy storage
- three dimensional
- supercapacitor
- battery
- fuel cell
- electrochemical cell
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