Nanotechnology for Energy Storage

Nano-stmctured materials are distinguished from conventional polycrystalline materials by the size of the structural entities that comprises them, microstructures comprising nanoscale domains in at least one dimension. The ability to control a material s structure and composition at the nano-level has demonstrated that materials and devices having properties intrinsically different from their polycrystalline counterparts can be fabricated. As tailoring of fundamental properties becomes possible at the atomic level, the prospect of developing novel materials and devices with new applications become viable. 

Conventional rechargeable Li batteries exhibit rather poor rate performance, even compared with old technologies such as lead-acid [2]. Achieving high rate rechargeable Li-ion batteries depends ultimately of the dimension of the active particles for both negative and positive electrodes. One of the prospective solutions for the preparation of electrodes with high power density is the choice of 

This chapter is organized as follows. The first part is devoted to the synthesis and physicochemical properties of nanoscale functional electrode materials in various 

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Banerjee, P., I. Perez, L. Henn-Lecordier, S. B. Lee, and G. W. Rubloff. 2009. Nano tubular metal-insulator-metal capacitor arrays for energy storage. Nature Nanotechnology 4 292-296. 

Nanotechnology for Material Development on Future Energy Storage... 

Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of science and technology that appeared at the junction of electronics, physics, chemistry, biology, and material science. The unique properties of nanostructures, when the key role is played by the quantum properties of the substance, are used for development of new effective catalysts, sensors, displays, energy storage and conversion systems, biomedical materials and devices, etc. (Brushan 2010). 

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