Issue 23, 2012

Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage

Abstract

Over the past decades, there have been many projections on the future depletion of the fossil fuel reserves on earth as well as the rapid increase in green-house gas emissions. There is clearly an urgent need for the development of renewable energy technologies. On a different frontier, growth and manipulation of materials on the nanometer scale have progressed at a fast pace. Selected recent and significant advances in the development of nanomaterials for renewable energy applications are reviewed here, and special emphases are given to the studies of solar-driven photocatalytic hydrogen production, electricity generation with dye-sensitized solar cells, solid-state hydrogen storage, and electric energy storage with lithium ion rechargeable batteries.

Graphical abstract: Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage

Article information

Article type
Critical Review
Submitted
31 Aug 2011
First published
18 Sep 2012

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012,41, 7909-7937

Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage

X. Chen, C. Li, M. Grätzel, R. Kostecki and S. S. Mao, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 7909 DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35230C

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