Structure-properties relationship for energy storage redox polymers: a review

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 373-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narendra Singh Chundawat ◽  
Nishigandh Pande ◽  
Ghasem Sargazi ◽  
Mazaher Gholipourmalekabadi ◽  
Narendra Pal Singh Chauhan

AbstractRedox-active polymers among the energy storage materials (ESMs) are very attractive due to their exceptional advantages such as high stability and processability as well as their simple manufacturing. Their applications are found to useful in electric vehicle, ultraright computers, intelligent electric gadgets, mobile sensor systems, and portable intelligent clothing. They are found to be more efficient and advantageous in terms of superior processing capacity, quick loading unloading, stronger security, lengthy life cycle, versatility, adjustment to various scales, excellent fabrication process capabilities, light weight, flexible, most significantly cost efficiency, and non-toxicity in order to satisfy the requirement for the usage of these potential applications. The redox-active polymers are produced through organic synthesis, which allows the design and free modification of chemical constructions, which allow for the structure of organic compounds. The redox-active polymers can be finely tuned for the desired ESMs applications with their chemical structures and electrochemical properties. The redox-active polymers synthesis also offers the benefits of high-scale, relatively low reaction, and a low demand for energy. In this review we discussed the relationship between structural properties of different polymers for solar energy and their energy storage applications.

2012 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250050
Author(s):  
MINGTAO ZHENG ◽  
XIANGRONG LIU ◽  
CHENGLONG HE ◽  
YONG XIAO ◽  
BINGFU LEI ◽  
...  

Here we report a simple in situ template approach for the synthesis of uniformly-shaped straight carbon microtubes (SCMTs) under moderate conditions, in which zinc carbonate powder and glycol were used as starting materials. The morphology and microstructure of SCMTs were characterized by SEM, TEM, HRTEM, XRD and Raman spectrum. The length and diameter of SCMTs can be controlled by simply varying the concentration of zinc carbonate in glycol. Experimental results show that ZnO nanorods generated during the process act as an in situ template for SCMT formation. Owing to their large inner spacing, SCMTs may have potential applications in supporter materials for drugs, dyes, and catalysts, microreactors, and hydrogen or energy storage materials.


Author(s):  
Zhiying Meng ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Mengqing Dong ◽  
Yue Zhang ◽  
Fengmin Cui ◽  
...  

Redox-active covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with dense redox sites are promising electrical energy storage materials with robust architectures, high surface areas, insolubility in electrolytes, and open pores for electrolyte transportation,...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarun Parangi ◽  
Manish Kumar Mishra

With the increased attention on sustainable energy, a novel interest has been generated towards construction of energy storage materials and energy conversion devices at minimum environmental impact. Apart from the various potential applications of titanium dioxide (TiO2), a variety of TiO2 nanostructure (nanoparticles, nanorods, nanoneedles, nanowires, and nanotubes) are being studied as a promising materials in durable active battery materials. The specific features such as high safety, low cost, thermal and chemical stability, and moderate capacity of TiO2 nanomaterial made itself as a most interesting candidate for fulfilling the current demand and understanding the related challenges towards the preparation of effective energy storage system. Many more synthetic approaches have been adapted to design different nanostructures for improving the electronic conductivity of TiO2 by combining with other materials such as carbonaceous materials, conducting polymers, metal oxides etc. The combination can be done through incorporating and doping methods to synthesize TiO2-based anodic materials having more open channels and active sites for lithium and/or sodium ion transportation. The present chapter contained a broad literature and discussion on the synthetic approaches for TiO2-based anodic materials for enhancing the lithium ion batteries (LIBs) and sodium ion batteries (SIBs) performance. Based on lithium storage mechanism and role of anodic material, we could conclude on future exploitation development of titania and titania based materials as energy storage materials.


Author(s):  
Ning An ◽  
Zhen Guo ◽  
Jiao Xin ◽  
Yuan-Yuan He ◽  
Ke-Feng Xie ◽  
...  

Redox-active covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an emerging class of energy storage materials due to their notably abundant active sites, well-defined channels and highly surface areas. However, their poor electrical...


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 3717-3725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziyang Song ◽  
Ling Miao ◽  
Liangchun Li ◽  
Dazhang Zhu ◽  
Yaokang Lv ◽  
...  

A universal route based on benzoquinone and amines with different chemical structures and compositions is developed to engineer geometrically tailored, highly redox-active O/N codoped porous carbons for high-efficiency energy storage.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-440
Author(s):  
Jeanne N’Diaye ◽  
Raunaq Bagchi ◽  
Jane Y. Howe ◽  
Keryn Lian

The pressing concerns of environmental sustainability and growing needs of clean energy have raised the demands of carbon and organic based energy storage materials to a higher level. Redox-active organic-carbon composites electrodes are emerging to be enablers for high-performance, high power and long-lasting energy storage solutions, especially for electrochemical capacitors (EC). This review discusses the electrochemical redox active organic compounds and their composites with various carbonaceous materials focusing on capacitive performance. Starting with the most common conducting polymers, we expand the scope to other emerging redox active molecules, compounds and polymers as well as common carbonaceous substrates in composite electrodes, including graphene, carbon nanotube and activated carbon. We then discuss the first-principles computational studies pertaining to the interactions between the components in the composites. The fabrication methodologies for the composites with thin organic coatings are presented with their merits and shortcomings. The capacitive performances and features of the redox active organic-carbon composite electrodes are then summarized. Finally, we offer some perspectives and future directions to achieve a fundamental understanding and to better design organic-carbon composite electrodes for ECs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1429-1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaona Li ◽  
Jianwen Liang ◽  
Xiaofei Yang ◽  
Keegan R. Adair ◽  
Changhong Wang ◽  
...  

This review focuses on fundamental understanding, various synthesis routes, chemical/electrochemical stability of halide-based lithium superionic conductors, and their potential applications in energy storage as well as related challenges.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
L.F. Kozin ◽  
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S.V. Volkov ◽  
A.V. Sviatogor ◽  
B.I. Daniltsev ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Matuszek ◽  
R. Vijayaraghavan ◽  
Craig Forsyth ◽  
Surianarayanan Mahadevan ◽  
Mega Kar ◽  
...  

Renewable energy has the ultimate capacity to resolve the environmental and scarcity challenges of the world’s energy supplies. However, both the utility of these sources and the economics of their implementation are strongly limited by their intermittent nature; inexpensive means of energy storage therefore needs to be part of the design. Distributed thermal energy storage is surprisingly underdeveloped in this context, in part due to the lack of advanced storage materials. Here, we describe a novel family of thermal energy storage materials based on pyrazolium cation, that operate in the 100-220°C temperature range, offering safe, inexpensive capacity, opening new pathways for high efficiency collection and storage of both solar-thermal energy, as well as excess wind power. We probe the molecular origins of the high thermal energy storage capacity of these ionic materials and demonstrate extended cycling that provides a basis for further scale up and development.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-397
Author(s):  
Corneliu S. Stan ◽  
Petronela Horlescu ◽  
Daniel Sutiman ◽  
Carmen Mita ◽  
Cristian Peptu ◽  
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