Innovative nanomaterials for energy storage: Moving toward nature-inspired systems

The current needs of finding more efficient materials with tunable properties have served as a motivation for the scientific community to move toward nature-inspired hierarchical materials adhering to the green analytical chemistry principles also because of the high complexity and efficiency of systems in nature. Such type of materials has exhibited highly dynamic interfacial interactions, which are outstandingly valuable for sensing and energy storage applications. Nature-based systems have displayed remarkable features, in terms of energy density, coulombic efficiency behavior, cycling stability energy, durability, and sensitivity. More interestingly, the aforementioned properties could be tuned by modifying the interfacial interactions within the material components. Along this contribution, recent developments on the design of green analytical nature-inspired hierarchical materials will be addressed, especially paying attention to the relationship between interfacial interactions and material features.