Nanomaterials for Energy and Environment Applications
A special issue of AppliedChem (ISSN 2673-9623).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 8747
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Interests: photoelectrochemistry; electrochemistry; catalysis; nanomaterials synthesis for energy application
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Dear Colleagues,
Establishing current clean energy resources is essential for developing renewable, sustainable, economic, and eco-friendly strategies to tackle the impending energy crisis. Over recent decades, scientists have been developing electrochemical (EC) and photo-electrochemical (PEC) systems such as rechargeable batteries, supercapacitors, water electrolyzers, fuel cells, solar cells, photovoltaic cells, and sensors to tackle the green energy crisis that has been a major concern. Yet, these systems face severe limitations in terms of their electrode materials, leading to sluggish reaction kinetics, long-term stability loss, and industrial applications, which pose a serious issue in their performances. Recently, the potential developments in the design of nanomaterials and their synthesis procedures have been focused on to cater to clean energy needs. The engineered nanomaterials are applied as electrode materials in EC and PEC reactions, implying various energy conversion and storage device applications. Thus, the production cost per unit of energy, industrial installation costs, and environment vulnerability reduces considerably. An enormous number of research articles cover the phenomenal performances of these materials; however, deep insights into the interpretation of these materials lack discussion. Moreover, significant efforts to devise the efficient implementation of the materials are essential to achieve realistic supremacy.
This Special Issue aims to present research articles that showcase the development of the new and modular synthesis of the nanomaterials that enhance the pollution-free aspect of the green energy race. Research analysis fused with theory, simulation, and experiment is desired to work out the challenges the green energy race faces that are bound to the electrochemical (EC) and photo-electrochemical (PEC) systems.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage systems;
- Photocatalysis;
- Electrocatalysis;
- Organic and Inorganic Photovoltaics;
- Fuel Cells;
- Metal-gas (O2/N2/CO2) Batteries;
- Solar Cells;
- Energy technologies for sustainable environment.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Uk Sim
Dr. Subramani Surendran
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanotechnology
- functional materials
- energy conversion
- energy storage
- solar energy
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