Recent advances in electrospun fibers based on transition metal oxides for supercapacitor applications: a review
Recent critical advances in energy storage technologies and progress towards the future "electric" era highlight the enormous demand for sustainable energy storage devices like batteries and supercapacitors (SCs) to meet the acute energy needs of society. SCs are more remarkable among the...
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| Published in | Energy advances Vol. 2; no. 7; pp. 922 - 947 |
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| Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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13.07.2023
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| Summary: | Recent critical advances in energy storage technologies and progress towards the future "electric" era highlight the enormous demand for sustainable energy storage devices like batteries and supercapacitors (SCs) to meet the acute energy needs of society. SCs are more remarkable among the various technologies due to their high power density, extended life cycle, environmental friendliness, and fast charging-discharging. To further improve the performance of SC devices, tremendous research efforts are in progress, including altering the fabrication method, using advanced robust materials and intriguing engineered nanostructures, and designing new architectures. Among the widely available materials, transition metal oxides (TMOs) exhibit good performance in SC technology owing to their high specific capacitance, different oxidation states, chemical and thermal stability and economic viability. So, recent research focuses on developing multifunctional engineered nanostructures and composites of TMOs to improve the SC performance and widen their application towards wearable and healthcare devices. The nanofiber morphology is supposed to have several advantages in SC performance compared to other morphologies owing to its higher specific surface area and aspect ratio, effectively improving the adsorption and electrolyte-ion diffusion process. Electrospinning is the most efficient technique for large-scale nanofiber production in a facile approach. This review discusses the recent progress in the fabrication and electrochemical properties of various TMO-based electrospun fiber electrodes for SC applications. The fundamentals of the electrospinning technique and a basic overview, in addition to the classification of SCs, are summarised. A more detailed insight into the advantages and disadvantages of fiber SCs, with particular attention on electrospun TMO fibers, is also discussed in this review. Finally, a conclusion on different TMO-based electrospun fiber electrodes compared to bimetal TMOs is deliberated by stating the challenges and future prospects of electrospun fiber SC electrodes.
Recent advances in the role of electrospun nanofibers based on transition metal oxides in advanced supercapacitor applications, its challenges and progress towards the future "zero emission electric era" are highlighted in this review. |
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| Bibliography: | Leya Rose Raphael received her MSc degree in Applied Chemistry (Oils, Fats and Aromatics) after receiving her BSc degree in Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Material Science and NanoEngineering Laboratory (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology. She has expertise in the synthesis and characterization of conducting polymers, graphene/2D materials and superhydrophobic membranes. Currently a Senior Research Fellow (SRF), her research work focuses on the development of tailor made 3D Cob-web Nano fibrous electrolytes for high-temperature Li-ion batteries as well as environmental applications. Several book chapters with International Publishers are in her credits. Roshny Joy is a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) at Materials Science and NanoEngineering Lab (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (PSRT), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India. Her current research is focused on high voltage window flexible super capacitors under the guidance of Prof. Prasanth Raghavan. She received her BSc degree from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and MSc degree in Chemistry from Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Rajasthan. She completed her MPhil degree at CUSAT. Her current areas of interest include supercapacitors, 2D materials, nanomaterials and composites and flexible energy storage devices. Sivaramapanicker Sreejith is currently visiting faculty at the Materials Science and Nanoengineering Lab (MSNE-Lab), Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), INDIA in 2010. Subsequently, he became an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2010-2011) at Humboldt University, Germany. He then moved to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2011-2017). Later in 2017, he moved to National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (2017-2019) as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology-NUS, Singapore. His research interest includes the study of functional nanomaterials, hybrids and nanocomposites with a focus on their applications in biological, catalytic and energy systems. He has published more than 65 scientific articles (4600 citations, h-index-29) in leading peer reviewed journals and has contributed to several book chapters. Prof. Prasanth Raghavan is a Professor and Head of the department at the Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (PSRT), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India, and Visiting Professor at Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea and Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), University of Edinburgh, UK. Prof. Prasanth is also holding the Associate/Adjunct Faculty position at the InterUniversity Centre for Nanomaterials and Devices (IUCND), CUSAT. He was indexed as a top 2% scientist in the world by Stanford University, USA in last couple of years. He received his PhD in Engineering under the guidance of Prof. Jou-Hyeon Ahn, from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Geyongsang National University, Republic of Korea, in 2009, supported by a prestigious Brain Korea (BK21) Fellowship. Prof. Prasanth completed his B. Tech and M. Tech from CUSAT. After a couple of years of attachment as a Project Scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-D), New Delhi, he moved to the Republic of Korea for his PhD studies in 2007. His PhD research was focused on the fabrication and investigation of nanoscale fibrous electrolytes for high-performance energy storage devices. After his PhD, Prof. Prasanth joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, as a Research Scientist, in collaboration with the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N) and TUM CREATE, a joint electromobility research centre between Germany's Technische Universität München (TUM) and NTU, where he was working with Prof. (Dr) Rachid Yazami, who successfully introduced graphitic carbon as an anode for commercial lithium-ion batteries, and received the Draper Prize in 2014. After four years in Singapore, Prof. Prasanth moved to Rice University, USA as a Research Scientist, where he worked with Prof. (Dr) Pulickal M Ajayan, the co-inventor of carbon nanotubes, and was fortunate to work with 2019 Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate, Prof. (Dr) John B. Goodenough. Prof. Prasanth was selected for the Brain Korea Fellowship (2007), SAGE Research Foundation Fellowship, Brazil (2009), Estonian Science Foundation Fellowship, European Science Foundation Fellowship (2010), Faculty Recharge, University Grants Commission (UGC), Ministry of Higher Education, India (2015), etc. Prof. Prasanth has received many international awards, including the Young Scientist award, Korean Electrochemical Society (2009), and was selected for the Bharat Vikas Yuva Ratna Award (2016) and recently awarded with an Education Excellence Award (2021), Dr S Radha krishnan Bharat Shiksha National Award (2021) etc. His current research focuses on nanoscale materials and polymer composites for printed and lightweight charge storage solutions, including high-temperature supercapacitors, batteries and tribo electric nanogenerators. Prof. Prasanth has published many research papers in high-impact factor journals, and a number of books/book chapters, and has around 7000 citation and an h-index of 40 plus. He sits on the editorial board as an Editor or Editorial Advisory Board member of SCI international journals including Journal of Materials Research, Nanofabrication, Biomaterials and Polymers Horizon and Frontiers of Materials etc. Prof. Prasanth is a book series editor for Springer Nature, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press etc. Apart from science and technology, Prof. Prasanth is a poet, activist and columnist in online portals and printed media. Prof. Jou-Hyeon Ahn is a professor in Department of Materials Engineering and Convergence Technology, Gyeongsang National University (GNU), Republic of Korea. He received his MS and PhD degree from Department of Chemical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea. His research interest is mainly focused on high energy density next generation batteries including lithium sulfur and sodium sulfur batteries. He has published about 400 scientific articles having citations of about 11500 and an h-index of 60. Prof. Ahn has been indexed as a top 2% scientist in the world by Stanford University, USA in the last couple of years and also listed in the top ranked world scientists by AD Scientific. He sits on the editorial board of a couple of SCI international journals as an Editor or Editorial Advisory Board member. Dr Abhilash Pullanchiyodan is a Chief Minister's Nava Kerala Postdoctoral Fellow (CMNPF) at the Materials Science and NanoEngineering Lab (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (PSRT), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India. He received a BSc and MSc degree in Chemistry, from Kannur University, India, and PhD degree in Chemical Science (Chemistry) in 2018, from Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India. From 2018 he worked as a Post-doctoral fellow/Research staff at University of Glasgow, UK, and later he was awarded the prestigious Royal Society-SERB Newton International Fellowship in 2019. He has also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at National Institute of Technology (NITK), Surathkal, India. He is the recipient of a CSIR-SRF fellowship. His research interests include supercapacitors, batteries, 2D materials, nanomaterial and polymer composites, ink/paste formulations, microwave dielectrics and ceramics. Dr Abhilash has published more than 35 peer reviewed research articles in high impact factor journals and a number of books/book chapters, and has over 900 citations and an h-index of 17. Neethu T. M. Balakrishnan is pursuing her PhD thesis with Prof. Prasanth Raghavan, at Material Science and NanoEngineering Laboratory (MSNE-Lab), Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India. Currently, she is working in the field of energy harvesting and storage devices. Her research work is focused on the development of polymer membrane-based tribo electric nanogenerators and safe electrolytes for heavy duty lithium ion batteries. More than 35 peer reviewed international publications and a good number of international conference proceedings are to her credit. She is the author of the book entitled 'Electrospinning for Advance Energy Storage Applications' on lithium-ion batteries. Her current areas of interest include electrospinning, carbon nanomaterials, ceramics, metal oxides, flexible and bendable energy harvesting and storage solutions such as triboelectric nanogenerators, lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors. Pranav Sreeram is a budding scientist who joined as a graduate student at Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology (PSRT), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Cochin, India in the year 2020. Later he started to work with Prof. Prasanth Raghavn at Materials Science and NanoEngineering Lab (MSNE-Lab) @PSRT from spring 2022. He is working in the research area of the production of nanocellulose and self-assembled lignin nanocrystals from animal manure as a sustainable material for energy harvesting and storage applications. Sreeram is actively involved in the development of flexible solid state polymer electrolytes or quasi solid electrolytes for batteries and supercapacitors. He has keen research interest in nanomaterials, energy harvesting and storage devices, sustainable materials and bio plastics. He has authored a couple of peer reviewed scientific articles or book chapters with leading international academic publishers. He has also been a visi |
| ISSN: | 2753-1457 2753-1457 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d3ya00067b |