Experimental Analysis of Nanomaterial Based Conductors for High-Efficiency Energy Transfer

Abstract

Increased need of efficient transmission systems of energy has led to extensive studies done in nanomaterial-based conductors because they have better electrical, thermal and mechanical characteristics. This paper is an experimental research in which the properties of nanomaterials conductors, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene and silver nanowires, are compared with traditional conductive materials. Electrical conductivity, energy loss, thermal stability and scalability were considered as key parameters and analyzed under controlled laboratory conditions. The findings show that the nanomaterials have much less resistive losses, and much higher current carrying capacity, which can be good candidates of the next generation energy system. Nonetheless, there are practical constraints that are crucial to commercialization like the high cost of production, the material lacks stability in large-scale integration and fabrication issues. The research needs to be done in the future so as to concentrate on the cost-effective synthesis methods, hybrid material development and the implementation strategies on large scale to bring the gap between the laboratory performance and the real-life working.