Emerging Opportunities of Nanomaterials to Energy Conversion and Storage

 

Abdelhafed Taleb

 

ABSTRACT:

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Over the past few years, nanoscience and nanotechnology have been the focus of significant research interest, from scientists in academia and industry. Nanomaterials play an important role in the development of new materials with new properties or enhanced existing properties. Material design based on nanoparticles as building units appear as a new approach with an unprecedented opportunity to prepare material with desired properties for targeted applications. This approach present the advantage to be flexible by offering a wide range of possibilities to assemble nanoparticles in various architectures. Additionally, it offers new possibilities to combine nanoparticles of different chemical compositions, sizes, shapes, and surface modifications with a myriad of molecules. All these possibilities allow to tune the properties of the designed material; and in turn to target a given application. We will present how the interactions between nanoparticles can guide their design for targeted applications. A general overview of nanoparticles assembly design is provided with an emphasis to targeted applications connected with Energy conversion and storage