CO₂ Utilization Technologies: Advanced Materials Development & Process System Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

Highly efficient CO₂ conversion and utilization technologies have played a crucial role in shifting from a fossil-based economy to a sustainable, low-carbon economy. Given the thermodynamic stability of CO₂, transforming it into various value-added chemicals and fuels is highly energy-intensive. Therefore, enhancing the kinetics and conversion rate of CO₂ is imperative to make CO₂ utilization technologies economically viable and industrially scalable. This necessitates advanced and innovative material design and process system design for both catalytic thermal CO₂ conversion and electrochemical CO₂ conversion processes. In this special, we aim to collect cutting-edge findings on different CO₂ utilization technologies, both through modelling and experimental analysis. We welcome contributions on CO₂ utilization technologies in the form of research papers and reviews, but not limited to, the following topic areas: 

• Catalyst and electrode materials for CO₂ reduction;
• Reaction kinetics and mechanism;
• Electrochemical conversion of CO₂;
• Catalytic thermal conversion of CO₂;
• Reactor design;
• CO₂ mineralization;
• CO₂ for polymers;
• CO₂ for fuels;
• CO₂ activation;
• BECCUS;
• Negative CO₂ emissions;
• Process design, integration, and control;
• Economic evaluation;
• Thermodynamic analysis;
• Environmental impact analysis;
• Molecular simulation;
• Artificial intelligence algorithms and models.

Dr. Po-Chih Kuo
Dr. Muhammad Aziz
Guest Editors

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