Nature-resembled nanostructures for energy storage/conversion applications

Official URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiec.2023.08.041

Nature-inspired nanomaterial is one of the well-investigated nanostructures with favorable properties exhibiting high surface area, more active sites, and tailorable porosity. In energy storage systems, nature-inspired nanomaterials have been highly anticipated to obtain the desired properties. Such nanostructures of nature-inspired nanomaterials include porous carbon, metal oxides/sulfides/phosphides/selenides/hydroxides, and others that have shown exemplary performance in electrochemical energy storage devices. However, the growing studies of nature-inspired nanomaterials have not fully been explored and summarized for numerous applications. This review reports the development of nature-inspired nanomaterials from different applications. Notably, we report the current methodologies and challenges for obtaining nature-inspired nanomaterials for supercapacitors, different types of batteries, catalysis, and substrates. The review ends with addressing the challenges and future perspectives of nature-inspired nanostructures toward their commercialization in electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems.