Catalysis and New Energy Materials
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: catalysis; new energy materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global transition toward a sustainable and carbon-neutral energy future constitutes one of the most urgent scientific and societal challenges of our era; advancing high-performance energy materials and the catalytic processes that underpin their function is essential for this transformation. Catalysis is crucial in enhancing the efficiency, selectivity, and feasibility of next-generation energy conversion and storage systems, ranging from renewable fuel production to advanced electrochemical storage technologies.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest advances and emerging trends at the dynamic intersection of catalysis and new energy materials. It seeks to cover a wide spectrum of applications where catalytic innovation is indispensable, including (but not limited to) the following areas:
- Electrocatalysis: water splitting (HER, OER), CO2/N2 reduction, fuel cells, and metal–air batteries;
- Photocatalysis: solar-driven hydrogen generation, artificial photosynthesis, and light-powered environmental remediation;
- Thermocatalysis: biomass valorization, methane reforming, and sustainable chemical synthesis;
- Catalytic Materials in Energy Storage: enhancing the efficiency, stability, and cycle life of batteries and supercapacitors.
The performance of these systems is determined by the physicochemical characteristics of the catalytic materials. Ongoing research is exploring rational design strategies that can be employed to manipulate key features, such as electronic structure, active site density and accessibility, porosity, and defect engineering. We particularly welcome contributions on novel material platforms, including single-atom catalysts, high-entropy alloys, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and their derivatives, covalent organic frameworks (COFs), MXenes, nano-heterostructures, and advanced carbon-based composites. Establishing robust structure–property correlations will be pivotal in developing catalysts with superior activity, selectivity, and long-term durability.
We warmly invite you to contribute original research articles or comprehensive reviews to this Special Issue and share your most recent findings with the broader scientific community.
If you would like to submit papers for publication in this Special Issue or have any questions, please contact the in-house Editor, Mr. Ives Liu (ives.liu@mdpi.com).
Dr. Pengcheng Dai
Dr. Xin Gu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable energy conversion
- electrocatalysis
- photocatalysis
- thermocatalysis for green fuels
- advanced energy storage materials
- single-atom and nano-structured catalysts
- high-entropy alloys and MXenes
- structure-property relationships
- in situ/operando characterization
- computational modeling
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