Energy systems and green sourced nanomaterials—A today’s outlook

Abstract

Owing to current growing demands of environmental friendly energy devices, innumerable green materials/nanomaterials have been applied to design the desired high tech devices. Amongst energy devices, supercapacitors have been ranked distinctively for efficient energy storage competence. Principally, green nanocomposites derived from green or ecological polymers and green nanoparticles have been scrutinized for supercapacitor components. Concerning this, current review has been planned to sketch the energy storage application of green nanocomposites, predominantly for supercapacitors. In this concern, mostly synthetic green polymers (such as polyaniline, polypyrrole, etc.) and their blends with natural polymers (like chitosan) having fine biodegradability, non-toxicity, low cost, and superior device end performance have been found as the noteworthy materials. Additionally, green nanofillers like carbon nanoparticles (carbon nanotube, graphene, etc.) and metal nanoparticles have been processed with green polymers via ecological techniques, like in situ, solution, sonication, mixing, hydrothermal, exfoliation, reduction, etc., to form the anticipated energy device components. In consequence, the designed ecological nanocomposites expectedly had the advantages of low price/weight, superior mechanical/heat resilience, electron transference, capacitance, power/charge density, charge-discharge, sustainability as well as environmentally friendliness for energy related methodological systems. Incidentally, the design and performance challenges towards the application of ecological nanocomposites in energy storage devices have been conversed.