Novel Energy Storage Devices based on Carbon and Oxide Nanostructures
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D：Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2021) | Viewed by 10167
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Over the past few decades, energy storage devices have become the focus of intense research due to their potential to replace fossil fuels for certain applications. They have numerous advantages such as high power and energy densities, cost-effectiveness, prolonged lifespan, and negligible environmental impact. Nanostructured carbon as electrode has been widely studied due to its potential in revolutionizing the energy storage and conversion technology. Metal oxide nanostructures possess great potential as high-performance electrode materials due to their high theoretical specific capacitance, high charge storage capability, and pseudo capacitive nature. However, for metal oxides, a few drawbacks such as quick capacitance fading, structural damage during charge-discharge, sluggish electronic/ionic transport, and low rate performance remain. These drawbacks can be compensated for by hybridizing metal oxides with nanostructured carbon of excellent electrical and mechanical properties. These hybrid electrodes hold great promise in developing high-efficiency energy storage devices and can bring a step change in this technology.
Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers and review articles that focus on novel electrode developments based on carbon and oxide nanostructures including material processing, characterization, optimization of properties, and quality assurance approaches for high-performance energy storage devices.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Dr. Supriya Chakrabarti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- supercapacitor
- battery
- electrode material
- nanomaterials
- nanostructured carbon
- metal oxide nanostructure
- electrochemical properties
- material characterization
- pseudo capacitance
- double layer capacitance
- energy storage device
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