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Microwave-assisted synthesis of functional electrode materials for energy applications

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Functional electrode materials play an increasingly important role in the advancement of energy conversion and storage technologies used in batteries, electrolyzers, supercapacitors, fuel cells, and other electrochemical devices. To address the problems related to accelerating demand for the so-called renewable energy, which are simultaneously coupled with environmental concerns, new generations of materials, engineering methodologies, and innovative techniques are necessary. Among many synthetic methods, microwave-assisted synthesis becomes nowadays a very popular approach to efficiently control both the composition and morphology of solids. In this review, we focus on its applications to create new advanced energy electrode materials.

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Financial support from SFB 749, the cluster of excellence Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Physik-Department ECS, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Faheem K. Butt & Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka

  2. Department of Physics, The University of Lahore, 1-Km Raiwind Road, Lahore, Pakistan

    Faheem K. Butt

  3. Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Schellingstraße 4, 80799, Munich, Germany

    Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka

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Butt, F.K., Bandarenka, A.S. Microwave-assisted synthesis of functional electrode materials for energy applications. J Solid State Electrochem 20, 2915–2928 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-016-3315-3

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