title: Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage.
abstract: Over the past decades, there have been many projections on the future depletion of the fossil fuel reserves on earth as well as the rapid increase in green-house gas emissions. There is clearly an urgent need for the development of renewable energy technologies. On a different frontier, growth and manipulation of materials on the nanometer scale have progressed at a fast pace. Selected recent and significant advances in the development of nanomaterials for renewable energy applications are reviewed here, and special emphases are given to the studies of solar-driven photocatalytic hydrogen production, electricity generation with dye-sensitized solar cells, solid-state hydrogen storage, and electric energy storage with lithium ion rechargeable batteries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri - Kansas City, 64110, USA. chenxiaobo@umkc.edu
authors.forename: Xiaobo
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Can
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Michaël
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grätzel
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kostecki
authors.forename: Samuel S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Mao