Advanced Energy Materials: Innovations and Challenges

Dear colleagues,

This Special Issue is focused on the trends and prospects of energy materials representing a class of materials used in a variety of ways. For example, high-energy materials could be used in the civilian sector for mining, construction, or spacecraft engineering, while in the military sector, they are applied for defense and security. Energy materials are also used for energy storage in batteries and supercapacitors, as well as for energy conversion through solar cells, fuel cells, thermoelectric devices, etc. These materials are important in solving current global challenges such as increased energy consumption and environmental pollution.

The aim of this Special Issue is to summarize the success of the fundamental science and applied research on materials used for the harvesting, conversion, storage, transmission, and utilization of energy. The issue will also include achievements in decreasing materials’ sensitivity, toxicity, instability, and proneness to decomposition or degradation over a short time. Further additions to this issue will include modern and advanced signal flare compositions, an understanding of the ignition mechanisms, and continuing development of advanced ignition methods. Moreover, techniques for the characterization of energy materials and their output as well as principles and effects of explosions will be discussed in this Special Issue. We aim to disseminate the most recent advances and perspectives related to the development of new approaches to designing and investigating advanced energy materials and their safe application. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Novel theoretical approaches to evaluating properties of high-energy materials;
• Synthesis of advanced energy materials;
• Properties of advanced energy materials and methods for their improvement;
• Maintenance of high-energy materials;
• Novel methods for high-energy material recognition.

Dr. Jelena Tamuliene
Dr. Jonas Sarlauskas
Guest Editors

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