A review on synthesis of graphene, h-BN and MoS2 for energy storage applications: Recent progress and perspectives

• Published in: Nano research Vol. 12; no. 11; pp. 2655 - 2694
• Main Authors: Kumar, Rajesh, Sahoo, Sumanta, Joanni, Ednan, Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Yadav, Ram Manohar, Verma, Rajiv Kumar, Singh, Dinesh Pratap, Tan, Wai Kian, Pérez del Pino, Angel, Moshkalev, Stanislav A., Matsuda, Atsunori
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing Tsinghua University Press 01.11.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra; Biomedicine; Biotechnology; Boron; Boron nitride; Catalysts; Chemical vapor deposition; Chemistry and Materials Science; Clean energy; Condensed Matter Physics; Energy; Energy research; Energy storage; Graphene; Heavy metals; Layered materials; Liquid phases; Materials Science; Metal oxides; Molybdenum; Molybdenum disulfide; Nanotechnology; Organic chemistry; Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition; Review Article; Reviews; Storage batteries; Substrates; Supercapacitors; inorganic layered materials; hierarchical structures; battery; energy storage; graphene; supercapacitor
• ISSN: 1998-0124; 1998-0000
• DOI: 10.1007/s12274-019-2467-8

The significance of graphene and its two-dimensional (2D) analogous inorganic layered materials especially as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and molybdenum disulphide (MoS 2 ) for “clean energy” applications became apparent over the last few years due to their extraordinary properties. In this review article we study the current progress and selected challenges in the syntheses of graphene, h-BN and MoS 2 including energy storage applications as supercapacitors and batteries. Various substrates/catalysts (metals/insulator/semiconducting) have been used to obtain graphene, h-BN and MoS 2 using different kinds of precursors. The most widespread methods for synthesis of graphene, h-BN and MoS 2 layers are chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma-enhanced CVD, hydro/solvothermal methods, liquid phase exfoliation, physical methods etc. Current research has shown that graphene, h-BN and MoS 2 layered materials modified with metal oxide can have an insightful influence on the performance of energy storage devices as supercapacitors and batteries. This review article also contains the discussion on the opportunities and perspectives of these materials (graphene, h-BN and MoS 2 ) in the energy storage fields. We expect that this written review article including recent research on energy storage will help in generating new insights for further development and practical applications of graphene, h-BN and MoS 2 layers based materials.