Sustainable Catalysis for Green Chemistry and Energy Transition

Dear Colleagues,

Catalysis stands at the forefront of sustainable development, offering transformative solutions in chemistry and energy that are essential in addressing global environmental challenges. By enabling eco-friendly chemical reactions and advancing renewable energy technologies, catalysis is vital in achieving a sustainable future. This field supports green chemistry by reducing waste, enhancing efficiency, and allowing operation under milder conditions, aligning closely with the principles needed for sustainable industry practices. It also plays a pivotal role in moving toward the energy transition, as innovative catalytic systems are vital in developing renewable resources such as hydrogen, biofuels, and CO₂ reduction technologies, offering cleaner alternatives to traditional fossil fuels.

This Special Issue will highlight a range of catalytic innovations designed to meet sustainability goals, with a focus on key areas such as heterogeneous catalysis for renewable energy, emphasizing materials and processes that support hydrogen evolution, CO₂ conversion, and biofuel production. Another critical focus involves photocatalysis and electrocatalysis, enabling solar-driven and electrochemical reactions to transform energy storage and conversion processes.

The scope further encompasses biocatalysis and biomass valorization, exploring enzyme-based systems to convert biomass into valuable chemicals and fuels, thus reducing waste and enhancing resource efficiency. Articles could also cover transition metal and organometallic catalysis with systems designed to operate under mild conditions, improve selectivity, and minimize waste, which is crucial in scalable and green processes.

Integrating catalysis into a circular economy framework is also central to this transition, emphasizing catalytic recycling and waste valorization to close the loop in chemical processes, reducing environmental impacts. Computational catalysis and machine learning represent an exciting frontier, as computational methods and AI are now essential tools in catalyst design, enabling the prediction and optimization of catalytic behavior for more efficient discoveries.

By gathering research at this intersection, this Special Issue will drive advancements in green chemistry and energy, fostering catalytic solutions that support a transition toward a sustainable, low-carbon future.

Prof. Dr. Wajid Zaman
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Saeed Akhtar
Guest Editors

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