Sustainable Metal Catalysts for Energy, Environment and Generation of High-Value Products, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalysis for Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 56
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heterogenous catalysis; interfaces and surfaces; material characterization; circular economy; physical chemistry
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Interests: heterogenous catalysis; photocatalysis; interfaces and surfaces; material characterization; environmental protection; industrial chemistry; physical chemistry
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Interests: heterogenous catalysis; chemical engineering; material science; air pollution control; catalytic oxidation; volatile organic compounds
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of the previous Special Issue, “Recent Advances and Strategies in the Development of Sustainable Metal Catalysts for Energy, Environment and Generation of High-Value Products”, following its great success.
Heterogeneous catalysis is at the core of most industrial processing procedures for the production of energy and/or high-value products. Due to the dramatic increase in the worldwide population and daily activities of society, meeting the worldwide need for energy and related products has become even more challenging. Therefore, enhancing productibility through the design of highly effective yet sustainable catalysts is urgently required. Meta-based catalysts are a significantly attractive option for running a wide range of catalytic processes. To select a catalyst for a given application, several factors should be considered, with the ideal catalyst having a high catalytic performance, low cost, nontoxic nature, and highly physical/chemical stability, wide availability, excellent recyclability, and lower energy consumption and nontoxic gas production during synthesis, with an eco-friendly end-of-life destination.
This Special Issue aims to discuss the recent advances in designing innovative nontoxic sustainable metal-based catalysts for energy production, high-value product generation, and environmental remediation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Current status and challenges in the green synthesis of cheap and eco-friendly metal-based catalysts;
- Updates and perspectives on techno-economics and life cycle assessment of metal-based catalysts;
- Development of low-metal loading catalysts;
- Design of metal catalysts for the recycling and valorization of waste materials;
- Upcycling of metal-containing waste materials into catalysts;
- Application of metal-based catalysts for energy production and environmental remediation;
- Biomass conversion into highly value products via metal-based catalysts: mechanistic and challenges;
Deactivation mechanisms of metal-based catalysts and approaches to control them.
Dr. Sebastiano Campisi
Dr. Melissa Greta Galloni
Dr. Weidong Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- catalysis
- metal catalysts
- photocatalysis
- electrocatalysis
- energy production
- life cycle
- sustainability
- environmental remediation
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