Clean energy storage

Ruiz-Garcia C, Jimenez R, Perez-Carvajal J, Berenguer-Murcia A, Darder M, Aranda P, Cazorla-Amoros D, Ruiz-Hitzky E (2014) Graphene-clay based nanomaterials for clean energy storage. Sci Adv Mater 6 151-158... 

With this perspective, electrode materials will play a major role in the next-generation battery design. Electric cars manufacturers and clean energy storage facilities require an increase in both energy density and power density of batteries. This is where nanomaterials are expected to provide a sizeable increment in performance owing to their unique properties. 

Minor and potential new uses include flue-gas desulfurization (44,45), silver-cleaning formulations (46), thermal-energy storage (47), cyanide antidote (48), cement additive (49), aluminum-etching solutions (50), removal of nitrogen dioxide from flue gas (51), concrete-set accelerator (52), stabilizer for acrylamide polymers (53), extreme pressure additives for lubricants (54), multiple-use heating pads (55), in soap and shampoo compositions (56), and as a flame retardant in polycarbonate compositions (57). Moreover, precious metals can be recovered from difficult ores using thiosulfates (58). Use of thiosulfates avoids the environmentally hazardous cyanides. 

Compressed-air energy storage Corporate average fuel economy California Air Resources Board Coal-bed methane Combined cycle gas turbine Carbon/carbon dioxide capture and storage Clean development mechanism Chlorofluorocarbon Computable general equilibrium Compressed gaseous hydrogen Combined heat and power... 

Z.S. Wronski, Materials for rechargeable batteries and clean hydrogen energy storage, Int. Mater. Rev. 46(1) (2001) 1-46. 

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