Transition Metal Oxides: The Material of Choice for Heterogeneous Catalysis
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2019) | Viewed by 5571
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heterogenous catalysis; electrocatalysis; water-splitting; energy conversion; inorganic chemistry; materials chemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The limited availability and environmental impacts of using fossil-based energy sources as primary energy is increasingly forcing engineers and scientists to develop techniques that allow to extract electric energy from alternative sources including solar energy. Electrochemically initiated water splitting allows the conversion of electricity into hydrogen plus oxygen thus the combination of both techniques potentially represents an environmentally friendly and potentially commercially exploitable solar to fuel conversion pathway provided that the electrocatalysts are non-toxic, highly efficient and based on cost-efficient and earth abundant elements.
Transition metal oxides (TMO) including Fe-, Ni-, Co- and Mn-oxides fulfill these requirements and can be created on conductive substrates. Despite recent progress in the exploitation of TMOs as water splitting catalysts there exist significant challenges to improve the overall properties, and to enable wider, practical applications of TMOs in heterogeneous catalysis. This special Issue, is designed to promote publications of new research and technological developments on transition metal-oxide based materials suitable to serve as highly efficient heterogenous catalysts. We invite contributions on topics that include, but is not limited to, alternative energy conversion and storage techniques.
Dr. Helmut Schäfer
Dr. Jorg. D. Hardege
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Transition metal oxides
- Electrocatalysis
- Water Splitting
- Oxygen evolution reaction
- Hydrogen evolution reaction
- Methanol oxidation
- Selective conversion of organic compound
- Fischer Tropsch catalysts
- Steam reforming
- Heterogenous catalysis
