PATENT on Electroactive Nanofluids (ENFs) for energy storage in Flow Cells
New review Chem.Soc.Rev. 2015 just published
Category: Research Lines
Research we are presently working on
Research Lines
Overview
Highlights
Advanced Nanomaterials Synthesis and Fabrication
Energy Storage
- Li-ion battery was the past. We are developing Zn technologies, from Zn-Ion Capacitors to Zinc-Ion Batteries to Zn-Air Batteries
- Supercapacitors, but with added energy storage
- Hybrid devices and materials, combining the best of supercaps and batteries
- To Flow or not to flow? Maybe both, with nanopastes in the middle
HIGHLIGHTS
OUR SPECIALTY: Hybrids, hybrids, hybrids. Hybrid Supercapacitors made of hybrid electrodes for hybrid energy storage.
We work on batteries (great energy, poor power), we work on supercapacitors (great power, poor energy). Now we also work on hybridizing them to get extra energy density while keeping high power… and much longer durability.
European Patent 2015 filed
As part of project NEST on Nanowires for Energy Storage a European Patent has been presented by CSIC and CEA researchers on oxide-coated Si-Nanowires as improved electrodes for micro-supercapacitors in combination with salt-doped ionic liquid electrolytes.
New review Chem.Soc.Rev. 2015 just published
Chemical Society Reviews Tutorial Review
Hybrid energy storage: the merging of battery and supercapacitor chemistries
D.P. Dubal, O. Ayyad, V. Ruiz and P. Gómez-Romero*
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015,44, 1777-1790 DOI: 10.1039/C4CS00266K
hybrid energy storage review