The generation of energy required to meet the increasing global demand should not compromise the environment and the future of the planet. Nowadays renewable energies have been identified as potential alternatives to fossil fuels which do harm to the plant with CO2 emissions. Subsequently, solar energy is seen as the most versatile and the largest source of heat and electricity for the future globally.
However, as solar is an intermittent source and has variable outputs, energy storage technologies are required in order to facilitate the heat and electricity demands from solar energy and to ensure that the supply matches these demand. Most importantly, the high-efficiency utilization of solar energy necessitates considerable advancement in energy storage technologies and materials to overcome its intermittent nature.