Recent Advances in Nanostructured Catalysts for Hydrogen Production
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 598
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hydrogen energy; carrier & storage; interfacial activity; metal nanoclusters; greenhouse gas mitigation
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Dear Colleagues,
Hydrogen has the potential to become a popular fuel source due to the environmental friendliness of its use, facilitating the achievement of existing net-zero emissions goals. Today, the energy sector is transforming, largely due to the introduction of the concept of hydrogen economy. However, choosing to utilize hydrogen production technology is a key factor in determining the real environmental friendliness of its use. In fact, the cost of hydrogen production is lower compared to that of fossil raw materials, but the environmental impact of the latter is far greater than that of hydrogen produced from water or biomass. However, as hydrogen is a significantly less dense fuel, its storage and transport are inefficient. Hence, hydrogen production and storage, as well as transport and utilization, with insignificant environmental repercussions, have gained attention among the scientific community in recent years. Hydrogen has found its utilization in the transport sector, e.g., in vehicles, and in stationary applications such as industrial and domestic power generation.
The catalytic steam reforming of methane still remains an existing commercial source of hydrogen production with respect to technological development as well as economic perspectives. However, water electrolysis, biomass pyrolysis, and methane splitting are processes that generate high-purity hydrogen. Keeping in mind the need for pure hydrogen, this Special Issue is focused on, but not limited to, inviting original research articles, communications, perspectives, and review articles aimed at exploring the following topics:
- Recent advancements in pure hydrogen production processes;
- Economic aspects of pure hydrogen production;
- The role of theoretical simulations, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in pure-hydrogen production;
- Novel nanomaterial-based heterogeneous catalysts.
Dr. Wasim Ullah Khan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hydrogen
- net-zero carbon footprint
- climate change
- water electrolysis
- biomass
- ammonia splitting
- methane splitting
- thermolysis
- heterogeneous catalysts
- circular economy
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