title: Engineering Synergy: Energy and Mass Transport in Hybrid Nanomaterials.
abstract: An emerging class of materials that are hybrid in nature is propelling a technological revolution in energy, touching many fundamental aspects of energy-generation, storage, and conservation. Hybrid materials combine classical inorganic and organic components to yield materials that manifest new functionalities unattainable in traditional composites or other related multicomponent materials, which have additive function only. This Research News article highlights the exciting materials design innovations that hybrid materials enable, with an eye toward energy-relevant applications involving charge, heat, and mass transport.
authors.affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Eun Seon
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: The California Maritime Academy, 200 Maritime Academy Drive, Vallejo, CA, 94590, USA.
authors.forename: Nelson E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Coates
authors.affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Jason D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Forster
authors.affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ruminski
authors.affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.|Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Russ
authors.affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Ayaskanta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sahu
authors.affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.|Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Norman C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Urban
keywords: charge transport; gas-barrier materials; interfaces; polymer-inorganic hybrids; thermal transport