New Insights into Electrocatalysis
A special issue of ChemEngineering (ISSN 2305-7084).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2021) | Viewed by 6417
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on the latest developments in the understanding of electrocatalytic processes for energy conversion and storage.
As demands for alternative energy sources to fossil fuels increase and the effects of rising CO2 levels get more severe, the need for an energy transition towards more sustainable energy sources becomes obvious. Electrocatalysis can contribute to this transition in several ways: by developing catalysts for energy conversion devices like fuel cells and electrolyzers, developing alternative processes for the chemical industry that allow the use of intermittent energy sources, and by developing processes for carbon capture and utilization.
This has sparked a rising interest in electrocatalysis in the recent decades; nonetheless, significant progress is necessary in virtually all the mentioned fields in order to effectively contribute to the proliferation of renewable energy sources. Key issues are linked to the clarification of the processes at the electrode/electrolyte interface and its status under reaction conditions, such as: the identification of active sites, elucidation of adsorption processes on complex surfaces, surface restructuring and dealloying, improving catalyst stability and understanding the deactivation and dissolution mechanisms, tuning of adsorption energies, the possibility of breaking the scaling relations, etc. Addressing these issues necessitates a multidisciplinary approach, linking theory and experiment.
We invite original research articles, as well as reviews and perspective articles, with a focus on the understanding of electrochemical processes and providing new insights into electrocatalysis.
Dr. Viktor Čolić
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- electrochemistry
- energy conversion
- electrochemical energy storage
- electrosynthesis
- electrode/electrolyte interface
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