Catalysis for Environmental and Renewable Energy Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Catalysts are extensively used in different technologies and play a fundamental role in the efficient generation of renewable energy and pollution and gas emission control. The development of porous catalysts from low-cost methods with nano Architex structures could open new avenues in the field of the future catalysis industry. Despite the fact that catalysts have remarkable performance, they pose, in some cases, a negative environmental impact due to their massive use, which is imposed by intensive production strategies. Therefore, a reorientation in the search of new materials, such as environmentally friendly catalysts, is urgently needed. Hence, the development of novel EFCs to face sustainable energy production and climate change problems, as well as to abate industrial emissions, has become a challenge in the current research fields. The perovskites, metal-organic framework materials, and nanocarbon from waste plastic could be focused for the future.

A great variety of catalytic materials, which include single metals as well as mixed metals (and their oxides), is currently being used, either supported over alumina, silica, titania, ceria, zirconia, activated carbons, and zeolites. In a similar way to make alternative attractive materials with a lower cost and less polluting, side product methodology is the main focus of the present Special Issue.  Nanoparticles or nanomaterials with a porous nature research topic are also welcomed in this Special Issue.

Dr. Rajabathar Jothi Ramalingam
Guest Editor

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