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New Insights into Hybrid Materials Based on Conductive Polymers and Their Use in Energy-Related Applications

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2023) | Viewed by 2559

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Department of Chemistry, Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, F-75006 Paris, France
Interests: hybrid electrode materials; conductive polymers; molecular chemistry; electrochemistry; interfaces; thin films; photocatalysis; photovoltaics; solar energy conversion and devices

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Facing ever-increasing energy demands, limited fossil resources linked to environmental concerns and intermittent renewable energy supplies, Mankind urgently needs to find ways towards global sustainability. Several pathways are explored. Challenges, common to various approaches, have emerged for the development of clean, low-cost and stable energy technologies. Despite their promising potential and the important advances of the past decades, the efficiency of these technologies remains hampered by detrimental losses and degradation processes within the materials and devices.

Advanced hybrid materials engineering is one of the key areas to develop in order to overcome these drawbacks, by combining the advantages of carefully chosen components. Among these, conductive polymers have attracted much interest due to their tunable properties and easy processability. Understanding the correlation of device performances with material properties, further developing their processing technology and mastering their integration into functional devices is a timely, challenging and dynamic multidisciplinary field of research.

This Special Issue in Energy Materials aims to gather both original articles and reviews that report the recent progress in the development of electronic hybrid materials based on conductive polymers, having designed structures and tunable properties for applications ranging from energy harvesting (piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics, etc.), to conversion (photovoltaics, (photo)electrocatalysis, etc.) and storage (supercapacitors, batteries, etc.).

Dr. Marie-Pierre Santoni
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • hybrid materials
  • conductive polymers
  • synthetic methods
  • thin films
  • interfaces
  • charge transfers and transport
  • semi-conductors
  • optoelectronic devices and their engineering
  • photovoltaics
  • electrocatalysis and photocatalysis

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New Insights into Hybrid Materials Based on Conductive Polymers and Their Use in Energy-Related Applications
by Marie-Pierre Santoni
Materials 2022, 15(14), 4928; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ma15144928 - 15 Jul 2022
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This Special Issue in Materials aims to gather both articles and reviews that report the recent progress in the development of electronic hybrid materials based on conductive polymers, with designed structures and tunable properties for applications ranging from energy harvesting (piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics, etc [...] Read more.
This Special Issue in Materials aims to gather both articles and reviews that report the recent progress in the development of electronic hybrid materials based on conductive polymers, with designed structures and tunable properties for applications ranging from energy harvesting (piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics, etc [...] Full article

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New PEDOT Derivatives Electrocoated on Silicon Nanowires Protected with ALD Nanometric Alumina for Ultrastable Microsupercapacitors
by Marc Dietrich, Loïc Paillardet, Anthony Valero, Mathieu Deschanels, Philippe Azaïs, Pascal Gentile and Saïd Sadki
Materials 2022, 15(17), 5997; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ma15175997 - 30 Aug 2022
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This work deals with electroactive conducting polymers (ECPs) used as a complementary component on purely capacitive silicon nanowires protected by a 3 nm alumina layer. Accordingly, in this work, we use a fast and simple deposition method to create a pseudocapacitive material based [...] Read more.
This work deals with electroactive conducting polymers (ECPs) used as a complementary component on purely capacitive silicon nanowires protected by a 3 nm alumina layer. Accordingly, in this work, we use a fast and simple deposition method to create a pseudocapacitive material based on the electropolymerization in aqueous micellar media (SDS and SDBS 0.01 M) of hydroxymethyl-EDOT (EDOT-OH) onto 3 nm alumina-coated silicon nanowires (Al3@SiNWs). The composite material displays remarkable capacitive behavior with a specific capacitance of 4.75 mF·cm−2 at a current density of 19 µA·cm−2 in aqueous Na2SO4 electrolyte. Full article
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