Conducting Polymer-Carbon Material-Based Nanostructured Composites for Energy Storage and Conversion

Abstract

Nanomaterials have gained tremendous applications in multiple fields like biomedical, environmental and energy storage applications. Their versatility and multifunctionality makes them an exquisite choice in such fields which is a direct consequence of features like increased surface area to volume ratio, quantum confinement, increased chemical reactivity, tailored functionalization, tunable emission, enhanced mechanical and thermal conductivity along with drug delivery and diagnostics. Conducting polymers, on the other hand, offer high electrical conductivity and high mechanical strength in addition to their ease of fabrication. Conducting polymers are helpful in electrochemical applications including batteries and supercapacitors because they can undergo reversible redox processes. Because of their high electrical conductivity, vast surface area, mechanical strength, chemical stability, and adaptable morphologies, carbon-based materials are unique in energy storage applications.