Carbon Nanotube Nanostructured Hybrid Materials Systems for Renewable Energy Applications
Abstract
Global energy demand is growing
at an alarming and unsustainable rate,
drawing mainly on the use of fossil
fuels. These reserves are decreasing
rapidly and becoming increasingly expensive.
The associated emissions of
greenhouse gases and other toxic pollutants
are becoming environmentally
unacceptable. Energy security has become
a major issue as fossil fuels are
confi ned to few areas in the world and
their availability is controlled by political,
economic, and ecological factors.
A global coherent energy strategy
that encompasses the entire energy life
cycle is required in order to address all
the forms of energy harvesting, storage,
conversion, transmission, and distribution.
Hybrid nanomaterial systems
hold the key to fundamental advances
in direct renewable energy and energy
storage and conversion which are
needed to enable renewable energy and meet the general energy challenges and
associated environmental effects. This
paper presents new approaches and
methodologies used to design and develop
carbon nanotube nanostructured
hybrid nanomaterial systems incorporating
structural and light-absorbing
electron donor polymers, inorganic
semiconductors, metallic and ceramic
nanoparticles as energy harvesting and
storage systems.
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