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With the continuous progress of the energy use and demand, functionalized energy storage and conversion device s (ESCDs) are urgently needed. In the meantime, stretchable ESCDs are attracting intensive attention due to their great potential for specific applications, such as wearable electronics, an electronic skin, implant electronics, and other collapsible gadgets. Design and synthesis of nanomaterials are at the core in the development of highly stretchable supercapacitors, batteries, and solar cells for such applications. This chapter first provides a brief summary of research development on the stretchable ESCDs in the past decade through various strategies of device design and manufacturing approach. After that, the focuses are on the advanced engineering of nanomaterials as active materials to achieve the stretchability of these ESCDs while maintaining a stable and functional performance. Finally, some of the challenges and the important directions in the areas of design and synthesis of nanomaterial facing the stretchable ESCDs are discussed concisely.
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This work was supported by the financial assistance by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51302219 and 51472204), the Natural Science Foundation of Shannxi Province (No. 2015JM2045), the Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing (NWPU), China (Grant No. 06-QP-2014), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 3102014JCQ01019), and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 20136102120024 and 20136102140001).
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Xie, K., Wei, B. (2016). Nanomaterials for Stretchable Energy Storage and Conversion Devices. In: Li, Q. (eds) Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32023-6_4
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