Over the past decades, there have been many projections on the future depletion of the fossil fuel reserves on earth as well as the rapid increase in green-house gas emissions. There is clearly an urgent need for the development of renewable energy technologies. On a different frontier, growth and manipulation of materials on the nanometer scale have progressed at a fast pace. Selected recent and significant advances in the development of nanomaterials for renewable energy applications are reviewed here, and special emphases are given to the studies of solar-driven photocatalytic hydrogen production, electricity generation with dye-sensitized solar cells, solid-state hydrogen storage, and electric energy storage with lithium ion rechargeable batteries. © 2012 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Chen, X., Li, C., Grätzel, M., Kostecki, R., & Mao, S. S. (2012). Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage. Chemical Society Reviews, 41(23), 7909–7937. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cs35230c
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