Carbon nanotubes for energy applications

Abstract

Use of energy and realizing a sustainable production are the greatest challenges of this century. All human activities require and presume the availability of energy, and it is the center of societal development. Nanotechnology plays an essential role in device applications for energy conversion and storage, green engineering of environmental friendly materials, and in environmental monitoring. Due to their unique structural, electronic, and mechanical properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their hybrid nanocomposites received immense research attention for their applications in different fields. Here the applications of CNTs in different energy conversion and storage devices are reviewed. Development of CNTs in integrated energy conversion technologies is a promising progress toward the efforts to solve the energy challenge for future.