The Molecular Foundry, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
The California Maritime Academy, 200 Maritime Academy Drive, Vallejo, CA, 94590, USA.
Adv Mater. 2015 Oct 14;27(38):5744-52. doi: 10.1002/adma.201500130. Epub 2015 Mar 5.
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.
一类新兴的混合材料正在推动能源领域的技术革命，触及到能源产生、存储和保护的许多基本方面。混合材料将经典的无机和有机成分结合在一起，产生了具有新功能的材料，这些功能在传统复合材料或其他相关多组分材料中是无法实现的，而后者只有附加功能。本文重点介绍了混合材料所带来的令人兴奋的材料设计创新，着眼于涉及电荷、热和质量传输的能源相关应用。
