Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, most of renewable energy sources always present some obvious disadvantages including the intermittent and unstable power supply, resulting in the mismatching between energy supply and actual demand, which seriously restrains their large-scale applications. To improve the energy utilization efficiency, exploring high performance large-scale energy storage system becomes a key factor and high performance electrode materials is the core component. Nanomaterials possess large specific surface area, rich pore structure, special physical and chemical properties, which is deemed to the suitable materials for energy storage. However, just simply utilizing these nanomaterials is not enough. To further enhance the electrochemical performance, functionalization of nanomaterials including the structure optimization, composite architecture and elemental doping is necessary. But some breakthroughs about functional nanomaterials are still needed, including understanding the energy storage behavior at nanoscale, exploring the relationship of functionalization and energy storage performance as well as studying the potential chemical and physical mechanisms of functional nanomaterials for energy storage.

This special issue mainly focuses on the energy storage applications of functional nanomaterials, which can accelerate the development of highly-efficient, rapid, and low-cost energy storage system. We also welcome the researches related to integrated devices, flexible devices for energy storage. Meanwhile, we sincerely hope this special issue will provide some new insights of functional nanomaterials for energy storage application.

Prof. Dr. Likun Pan
Prof. Dr. Jinliang Li
Dr. Jiabao Li
Guest Editors

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