Polymer nanocomposite material for energy storage application

Earth is marching towards disaster due to global warming. The main cause of global warming is the release of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels. Due to the excessive usage of fossil fuels, the earth's temperature is increasing day by day. Therefore, several safety precautions have been undertaken to obtain energy from sources other than fossil fuels such as solar, tide, wind, hydrogen, and other renewable energy sources that have been developed over time to address the issue of global warming. However, these operations generate intermittent energy, which cannot use directly at that instant: as a result, an energy storage device is required to store the excess energy from these sources. The battery is a promising solution to storage energy. Hence, worldwide research is going on to develop different aspects of components to enhance its efficiency of a battery. Polymer nanocomposite (PNC) plays a crucial role to enhance battery performance. PNC has numerous advantages in Lithium-ion batteries which results high working voltage, high capacity, long life cycle& low toxicity. If the existing costly toxic inorganic electrodes replaced by PNC like Si-PANI, CuO-PPy, and LiFeO2-PPy, then electronic and ionic transfer will faster with better mechanical integrity. In addition, PNCs materials have revolutionized separators with better thermal stability, higher electrochemical performance, and longer durability than those polyolefin polymer membranes made up of polyethylene and polypropylene. In this book chapter, we have focused on several novel polymer nanocomposite materials for the electrode as well as separator materials for Lithium-Ion battery applications.