Quantum Dots based Materials for New Generation Supercapacitors Application: A Recent Overview

Quantum Dots based Materials for New Generation Supercapacitors Application: A Recent Overview

Gaurav Tatrari, Manoj Karakoti, Mayank Pathak, Anirban Dandapat, Tanmoy Rath, Nanda Gopal Sahoo

The need of energy storage and related devices are increasing day by day, due to the expansion of global population. To deal with such universal crisis, current energy storage devices like supercapacitors need to be improved in their performances and qualities. In this regard, quantum dots (QDs) are extensively being studied, especially due to their excellent properties. The utilization of QDs in supercapacitors is huge as electrode material as well as for fluorescent electrolytes. Various QDs based composites have been made for the same, which includes doping with various metals, non-metals and carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) like graphene, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) etc. In the present chapter the current advancement and futuristic possibilities of supercapacitors have been mentioned extensively.

Keywords
Carbon Nanomaterials, Graphene Quantum Dots, Heteroatom Doping, Energy Storage Devices, Supercapacitors

Published online 2/1/2020, 36 pages

Citation: Gaurav Tatrari, Manoj Karakoti, Mayank Pathak, Anirban Dandapat, Tanmoy Rath, Nanda Gopal Sahoo, Quantum Dots based Materials for New Generation Supercapacitors Application: A Recent Overview, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 96, pp 216-250, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644901250-9

Part of the book on Quantum Dots

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