Electrospun Nanomaterials for Energy Applications: Recent Advances
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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.
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OpenAlex topics: Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication · Advanced battery technologies research · Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, dell’Energia, dell’Ambiente e dei Materiali, Università “Mediterranea”, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
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