State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China.
Adv Mater. 2018 May;30(21):e1705850. doi: 10.1002/adma.201705850. Epub 2018 Feb 14.
Renewable energy technology has been considered as a "MUST" option to lower the use of fossil fuels for industry and daily life. Designing critical and sophisticated materials is of great importance in order to realize high-performance energy technology. Typically, efficient synthesis and soft surface modification of nanomaterials are important for energy technology. Therefore, there are increasing demands on the rational design of efficient electrocatalysts or electrode materials, which are the key for scalable and practical electrochemical energy devices. Nevertheless, the development of versatile and cheap strategies is one of the main challenges to achieve the aforementioned goals. Accordingly, plasma technology has recently appeared as an extremely promising alternative for the synthesis and surface modification of nanomaterials for electrochemical devices. Here, the recent progress on the development of nonthermal plasma technology is highlighted for the synthesis and surface modification of advanced electrode materials for renewable energy technology including electrocatalysts for fuel cells, water splitting, metal-air batteries, and electrode materials for batteries and supercapacitors, etc.
可再生能源技术被认为是降低工业和日常生活中化石燃料使用的“必备”选择。为了实现高性能的能源技术，设计关键和复杂的材料至关重要。通常，纳米材料的高效合成和软表面改性对于能源技术很重要。因此，人们越来越需要合理设计高效的电催化剂或电极材料，这是可扩展和实用电化学能源设备的关键。然而，开发通用且廉价的策略是实现上述目标的主要挑战之一。因此，等离子体技术最近作为电化学器件中纳米材料的合成和表面改性的一种极具前景的替代方法出现。在这里，强调了非热等离子体技术在用于可再生能源技术的先进电极材料的合成和表面改性方面的最新进展，包括燃料电池、水分解、金属-空气电池的电催化剂以及电池和超级电容器等电极材料。
