Advanced Catalysis for Energy and a Sustainable Environment
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 2844
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy storage (supercapacitors); renewable energy; biomass to biofuels CO2 capture; wastewater treatment; heterogeneous catalysis; adsorption
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Catalysis has long played an important role in chemical, petrochemicals, and allied industries. However, its role has been escalated to the sustainable energy domain, with minimal environmental impact. This transformation has created opportunities for researchers/academics/scientists globally to design, develop, and test cost-effective catalysts. Catalysis advancements occupy a distinguished position within the realm of scientific solutions aimed at sustainable energy and promoting environmental conservation. Indeed, an efficient catalyst allows reactions under mild conditions (i.e., moderate or lower temperatures and pressures) and reduced energy consumption, operational costs, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Recent years have been characterized by considerable advancements in catalytic materials, including nanostructured, heteroatoms, 1D/2D/3D catalysts, and composite catalysts for enhancing reaction rates, product yield, selectivity, and long-term stability. Some areas for advanced catalysis include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Hydrogen and Clean Fuels: Catalytic, photocatalytic, electrocatalytic, and decarbonization processes, among others;
- Green Catalysis: Generation of energy or fuels using green catalysts, aqueous-phase catalysis, etc.;
- Biomass Conversion: Conversion of renewable biomass into biofuels, biochemicals, and other compounds;
- Minimizing Harmful Emissions: Catalysts to reduce harmful gases or CO2 formation, CO2 conversion into valuable chemicals and fuels, etc.;
- Wastewater Treatment: Catalysts for wastewater treatment, dye degradation, metal treatment, chemical treatment, pollutant and contaminant removal from water, etc.;
- Sustainable Catalysis: Biocatalysts, organo-catalysts, and rare earth-based catalysts to minimize toxicity and environmental risks.
Despite remarkable progress, advancements in catalytic technologies still need to be fully explored. Catalysts’ durability and recyclability in multiple processes also require further research. Thus, original research papers and reviews aligned with the above themes are welcome in this Special Issue of Catalysts.
Dr. Khursheed B. Ansari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable energy
- environmental remediation
- advanced catalytic materials
- biomass conversion
- CO2 conversion
- wastewater treatment
- catalyst sustainability (durability/recyclability)
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