Electrospinning is a simple, versatile, cost-effective, and scalable technique for the growth of highly porous nanofibers. These nanostructures, featured by high aspect ratio, may exhibit a large variety of different sizes, morphologies, composition, and physicochemical properties. By proper post-spinning heat treatment(s), self-standing fibrous mats can also be produced. Large surface area and high porosity make electrospun nanomaterials (both fibers and three-dimensional fiber networks) particularly suitable to numerous energy-related applications. Relevant results and recent advances achieved by their use in rechargeable lithium- and sodium-ion batteries, redox flow batteries, metal-air batteries, supercapacitors, reactors for water desalination via capacitive deionization and for hydrogen production by water splitting, as well as nanogenerators for energy harvesting, and textiles for energy saving will be presented and the future prospects for the large-scale application of electrospun nanomaterials will be discussed.

Electrospun nanomaterials for energy applications: recent advances

SANTANGELO, Saveria
2019-01-01

Abstract

Electrospinning is a simple, versatile, cost-effective, and scalable technique for the growth of highly porous nanofibers. These nanostructures, featured by high aspect ratio, may exhibit a large variety of different sizes, morphologies, composition, and physicochemical properties. By proper post-spinning heat treatment(s), self-standing fibrous mats can also be produced. Large surface area and high porosity make electrospun nanomaterials (both fibers and three-dimensional fiber networks) particularly suitable to numerous energy-related applications. Relevant results and recent advances achieved by their use in rechargeable lithium- and sodium-ion batteries, redox flow batteries, metal-air batteries, supercapacitors, reactors for water desalination via capacitive deionization and for hydrogen production by water splitting, as well as nanogenerators for energy harvesting, and textiles for energy saving will be presented and the future prospects for the large-scale application of electrospun nanomaterials will be discussed.
2019
ELECTROSPINNING, NANOFIBERS, LITHIUM ION BATTERIES, SODIUM ION BATTERIES REDOX FLOW BATTERIES, METAL AIR BATTERIES
SUPERCAPACITORS, CAPACITIVE DEIONIZATION OF WATER, HYDROGEN PRODUCTION BY SOLAR-DRIVEN WATER SPLITTING
NANOGENERATORS FOR ENERGY HARVESTING, TEXTILES FOR ENERGY SAVING, HIGH PERFORMANCE, POROUS CARBON NANOFIBERS
PHASE CHANGE FIBERS, ELECTRICALLY FORCED JETS, CORE SHEATH STRUCTURE, BINDER FREE ANODES, CATHODE MATERIALS
RECENT PROGRESS, ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE
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