Science· 2019Q1
Energy storage: The future enabled by nanomaterials
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- 2019year
Short summary
Nanomaterials integrated into smart architectures can overcome stability issues and enable advanced energy storage for flexible electronics, electric transport, and grid-scale applications.
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Key points
- Nanomaterials can enhance the performance of existing energy storage systems like batteries and supercapacitors.
- Smart architectures combining different nanoparticles are needed to overcome nanomaterial instability.
- Advanced manufacturing approaches are required for integrating nanomaterials into functional devices.
- Future applications include powering distributed sensor networks and flexible/wearable electronics.
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Abstract
Lithium-ion batteries, which power portable electronics, electric vehicles, and stationary storage, have been recognized with the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry. 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. The versatility of nanomaterials can lead to power sources for portable, flexible, foldable, and distributable electronics; electric transportation; and grid-scale storage, as well as integration in living environments and biomedical systems. To overcome limitations of nanomaterials related to high reactivity and chemical instability caused by their high surface area, nanoparticles with different functionalities should be combined in smart architectures on nano- and microscales. The integration of nanomaterials into functional architectures and devices requires the development of advanced manufacturing approaches. We discuss successful strategies and outline a roadmap for the exploitation of nanomaterials for enabling future energy storage applications, such as powering distributed sensor networks and flexible and wearable electronics.
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Field: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic MaterialsMaterials Science