Self-Repairing Energy Materials: Sine Qua Non for a Sustainable Future

TL;DR

This paper emphasizes the importance of developing self-repairing energy materials to enhance sustainability by reducing energy and material costs, aiming for longer-lasting materials in future energy applications.

Contribution

It highlights the need for designing self-repairing principles in energy materials to improve resilience and sustainability in future chemistry.

Findings

Self-repairing materials can extend lifespan and reduce resource consumption.

Design principles for self-repair are crucial for sustainable energy solutions.

Resilient materials are key to lowering energy and material costs.

Abstract

Materials are central to our way of life and future. Energy and materials as resources are connected and the obvious connections between them are the energy cost of materials and the materials cost of energy. For both of these resilience of the materials is critical; thus a major goal of future chemistry should be to find materials for energy that can last longer, i.e., design principles for self-repair in these.