William Dichtel, chemist pioneering the assembly of molecules into stable, high-surface-area networks with potential applications in electronic, optical, and energy storage devices.
It appears that one of the most important group of materials are the conducting polymers with a vast field of applications from primarily passive materials such as coatings and containers to active materials with useful optical, electronic, energy storage, and mechanical properties.
Tailor-made nanotube arrays possess great potential for developing high-performance optical and electrochemical energy storage devices.
Tailor-made porous nanotube arrays are of great technological interest for the development of high-performance optical and electrochemical energy storage devices.
Among the inorganic materials enjoying widespread contemporary interest, the metal oxide based solid phases occupy a prominent position by virtue of their applications to catalysis, sorption, molecular electronics, energy storage, optical materials and ceramics.
However, the challenges related to transition metal oxide electrochromic-batteries include poor energy storage, low optical contrast, and high fabrication cost.
It provides a general introduction of structure-property relations; defect chemistry including Kroger-Vink diandam and charged point defect; ionic conductivity in electrochemical intercalation energy storage materials; optical properties of wide bandgap metal oxides; spin, charge and crystal structure coupling, and their ordering and disordering.
Because the molecular connectivity between polymer and inorganic components facilitates the realization of very high concentrations of inorganic component, particle brush-based composites hold the promise to realize novel high-performance engineering materials with a wide range of applications, for example, in the area of energy storage or optical materials.
The synthesis route presented here is robust and may be extended to fabricate other nanostructures for various applications in electrochemical energy storage and optical devices.
Liu, C. et al. Enhanced energy storage in chaotic optical resonators.
