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Efficiency Enhancement of Renewable Energy Systems Using Nanotechnology

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Energy has a fundamental part to play in the industrial and the socio-economic development of a country. It is imperative on the part of mankind to curb the disadvantages of the industrial era that human civilization has brought in the twenty-first century. It has become a dire need to use alternative sources of energy in place of non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels which tremendously contribute to the problem of global warming. Nanotechnology is creating a lot of responsiveness these days and henceforth building lot of anticipations not only within the community of academicians but also among governments, various commercial sectors, and investors. It is the combination of chemistry and engineering which deals with the design, study, creation, manipulation, synthesis, and application of functional materials, devices, and systems using control of matter at a scale of 1 and 100 nm. Focusing on the renewable energy domain, nanotechnology has the potential to significantly reduce the input to energy production, storage, and its use and is viewed as a new candidate for clean and sustainable energy applications. It is serving to considerably improve and revolutionize the technological and industrial sectors such as homeland security, information technology, transportation, energy, medicine, environmental science, food safety, etc.

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Raina, N., Sharma, P., Slathia, P.S., Bhagat, D., Pathak, A.K. (2020). Efficiency Enhancement of Renewable Energy Systems Using Nanotechnology. In: Bhushan, I., Singh, V., Tripathi, D. (eds) Nanomaterials and Environmental Biotechnology. Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34544-0_15

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