Pedro Gomez-Romero
Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia, Spain
Title: Advanced electrode materials for hybrid energy storage
Biography
Biography: Pedro Gomez-Romero
Abstract
If nanotechnology is an Enabling Technology, Energy Storage is also increasingly recognized as a key technology to enable our ongoing transition to a sustainable energy model. Electrochemical energy storage will be key to this transition but is still far from optimal. That is why there is still plenty of room for novel types of materials in this trade. Hybrid Nanocomposite Materials offer opportunities for synergy and improved properties.Those formed by electroactive and conducting components are of particular interest for energy storage applications. We have developed a whole line of work dealing with hybrid electroactive and conductive materials for energy storage applications. In this conference we will address some of our recent work towards hybridizing energy storage discussing hybrid electrodes formed by nanocarbons and polyoxometalates or oxides. Furthermore, we will show how hybrids can be designed to take advantage of dual energy storage mechanisms by combining the typical capacitive behavior of supercapacitors with the characteristic faradaic activities of batteries.