TY - JOUR
T1 - Graphene aerogels for efficient energy storage and conversion
AU - Mao, Jiajun
AU - Iocozzia, James
AU - Huang, Jianying
AU - Meng, Kai
AU - Lai, Yuekun
AU - Lin, Zhiqun
N1 - Funding Information:
James Iocozzia is a graduate student in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor of Science in Polymer and Fiber Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012. His research interests include liquid crystals, nanocomposites and block copolymers. He is a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow, a Graduate Student Presi dential Fellow, an NSF EAPSI Fellow and a BIONIC Scholar.
Funding Information:
The authors thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21501127 and 51502185), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (BK20140400). We also acknowledge the funds from the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD), and the Jiangsu Scientific and Technological Innovation Team (2013).
Funding Information:
Yuekun Lai received his PhD degree from the Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University. From 2009–2011, he worked as a research fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineer- ing, Nanyang Technological Uni- versity, Singapore. After that, he moved to Muenster University with Prof. Harald Fuchs and Prof. Lifeng Chi under the support of the Humboldt Foundation Scholarship of Germany. He is currently a Professor at the National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, and the School of Textile and Clothing Engineering at the Soochow University since 2013. His research interests focus on bio-inspired intelligent surfaces with special wettability, and energy and environmental materials.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - Concerns over air quality reduction resulting from burning fossil fuels have driven the development of clean and renewable energy sources. Supercapacitors, batteries and solar cells serve as eco-friendly energy storage and conversion systems vitally important for the sustainable development of human society. However, many diverse elements influence the performance of energy storage and conversion systems. The overall efficiency of systems depends on the specific structure and properties of incorporated functional materials. Carbon materials, such as graphene, are especially promising for materials development in the energy storage and conversion fields. Graphene, a two-dimensional (2D) carbon material only a single atom thick, has massless Dirac fermions (electron transport is governed by Dirac's equation), displays outstanding electrical conductivity, superior thermal conductivity and excellent mechanical properties. 2D free-standing graphene films and powders have paved the way for promising energy applications. Recently, much effort has been spent trying to improve the number of active sites in electrode materials within 3D network/aerogel structures derived from graphene. This is because graphene aerogels are promising materials for energy systems due to their porous hierarchical structure which affords rapid electron/ion transport, superior chemical and physical stability, and good cycle performance. This review aims to summarize the synthetic methods, mechanistic aspects, and energy storage and conversion applications of novel 3D network graphene, graphene derivatives and graphene-based materials. Areas of application include supercapacitors, Li-batteries, H2 and thermal energy storage, fuel cells and solar cells.
AB - Concerns over air quality reduction resulting from burning fossil fuels have driven the development of clean and renewable energy sources. Supercapacitors, batteries and solar cells serve as eco-friendly energy storage and conversion systems vitally important for the sustainable development of human society. However, many diverse elements influence the performance of energy storage and conversion systems. The overall efficiency of systems depends on the specific structure and properties of incorporated functional materials. Carbon materials, such as graphene, are especially promising for materials development in the energy storage and conversion fields. Graphene, a two-dimensional (2D) carbon material only a single atom thick, has massless Dirac fermions (electron transport is governed by Dirac's equation), displays outstanding electrical conductivity, superior thermal conductivity and excellent mechanical properties. 2D free-standing graphene films and powders have paved the way for promising energy applications. Recently, much effort has been spent trying to improve the number of active sites in electrode materials within 3D network/aerogel structures derived from graphene. This is because graphene aerogels are promising materials for energy systems due to their porous hierarchical structure which affords rapid electron/ion transport, superior chemical and physical stability, and good cycle performance. This review aims to summarize the synthetic methods, mechanistic aspects, and energy storage and conversion applications of novel 3D network graphene, graphene derivatives and graphene-based materials. Areas of application include supercapacitors, Li-batteries, H2 and thermal energy storage, fuel cells and solar cells.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045909915&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1039/c7ee03031b
DO - 10.1039/c7ee03031b
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85045909915
SN - 1754-5692
VL - 11
SP - 772
EP - 799
JO - Energy and Environmental Science
JF - Energy and Environmental Science
IS - 4
ER -
