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Front Cover -- NANOSTRUCTURED, FUNCTIONAL, AND FLEXIBLE MATERIALS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE SYSTEMS -- NANOSTRUCTURED, FUNCTIONAL, AND FLEXIBLE MATERIALS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE SYSTEMS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 -- Basic principles in energy conversion and storage -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lithium batteries -- 2.1 Battery principle and basics -- 3. Supercapacitors -- 3.1 Working principle of a supercapacitor -- 4. Dye-sensitized solar cells -- 4.1 Major components of dye-sensitized solar cells -- 4.2 Working principles of dye-sensitized solar cells

5. Hydrogen production by photocatalytic water splitting -- 6. Fuel cell -- 7. Conclusions -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- 2 -- Low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage applications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Synthetic aspects of carbon-based nanomaterials -- 2.1 Synthesis of carbon nanodots -- 2.2 Graphene preparation -- 2.3 Synthesizing graphene quantum dots -- 3. Energy characteristics of carbon nanodots -- 4. Potential properties of graphene -- 5. Carbon nanotubes in renewable energy applications -- 5.1 Hydrogen storage -- 5.2 Solar cells

5.3 Energy conversion using carbon nanotubes -- 5.4 Carbon nanotubes in energy storage -- 5.4.1 Batteries -- 5.4.2 Supercapacitors -- 6. Applications of carbon nanodots in energy conversion and storage -- 6.1 Application in supercapacitors -- 6.2 Application in Li-ion batteries -- 6.3 Application in solar cells -- 6.4 Application in light-emitting diodes -- 7. Applications of graphene in energy conversion and storage -- 7.1 Solar cells -- 7.2 Battery -- 7.3 Fuel cells -- 7.4 Supercapacitors -- 7.5 Hydrogen storage devices

8. Applications of graphene quantum dots related to energy conversion and storage -- 8.1 Supercapacitors -- 8.2 Batteries -- 8.3 Photovoltaic cells/solar cells -- 8.4 Fuel cells -- 9. Summary and future aspects -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- References -- 3 -- Nanostructured bifunctional electrocatalyst support materials for unitized regenerative fuel cells -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Unitized regenerative fuel cell system -- 3. Role of electrocatalysts and electrocatalyst support materials -- 4. Types of electrocatalysts support materials and their performance in a URFC

4.1 Carbon structures as electrocatalyst supports -- 4.2 Unsupported and IrO2-supported electrocatalysts -- 4.3 Ti-based compounds as electrocatalyst supports -- 4.4 Sb-doped SnO2 and SiO2-SO3H electrocatalyst support -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 -- Polymeric nanomaterials in fuel cell applications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Polymeric nanomaterials in microbial fuel cells -- 3. Polymeric nanomaterials in hydrogen fuel cells -- 4. Polymeric nanomaterials in direct methanol fuel cells -- 5. Conclusions and future directions -- References

5 -- Nanocarbon: lost cost materials for perovskite solar cells