DESIGN OF NANOSTRUCTURES FOR FLEXIBLE ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE

Flexible energy conversion and storage applications have attracted great attention for decades as they can, to a certain extent, contribute to releasing the pressure caused by fossil energy shortage. Designing nanostructures for flexible energy conversion and storage is a promising way due to their unique physical and chemical properties for future research. In this chapter, we provide a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art research activities related to nanostructures based flexible energy conversion and storage. In the energy conversion part, we highlight the significance of nanostructures-based flexible photovoltaic (PV) applications as well as the brief discussions on the possibilities to make other forms of energy conversion applications flexible through nanostructure design. In the energy storage part we specially give emphasis to flexible lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and supercapacitors for the great potential they have shown for practical use. All these applications are believed to be developed towards high performance and low cost direction due to the booming perspective of nanotechnology.