Advances in Fuel Cells: Materials, Technologies, and Applications
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 June 2025 | Viewed by 607
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fuel cells; nanotechnology; nanomaterials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Zero-carbon science and new energy technologies have attracted intense attention, including high-value utilization of CO2, fuel cells, energy storage devices, etc. Rational design of advanced nanomaterials is crucial to enhance reaction kinetics and energy conversion/storage efficiency. A deep understanding of the intrinsic structure–property relationship of electrode materials is an important prerequisite for the development of next-generation electrode materials. In recent years, scientists have made a series of important advances in the field of electrode material design, scale-up preparation, and device optimization, which provide important technical support for carbon neutrality. In view of the dynamic developments in zero-carbon science and new energy technologies, this Special Issue aims to publish exciting achievements related to electrode materials, synthetic methods, and performance breakthroughs for energy and environmental technologies.
This issue includes the below-listed and associated topics:
(i) Hydrogen fuel cell/Ammonia fuel cell/Solid oxide fuel cell/Solid oxide electrolytic cell;
(ii) Electrocatalytic/photocatalytic CO2 reduction;
(iii) Water splitting and metal-air batteries, including oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), etc.;
(iv) All-solid-state sodium Li/Na batteries and wide-temperature batteries;
(v) Aqueous Zn-based batteries;
(vi) Supercapacitor;
(vii) Advanced materials for energy conversion/storage.
Prof. Dr. Zhipeng Li
Dr. Qichen Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CO2 reduction
- fuel cell
- Li/Na/Zn batteries
- energy electrocatalysis
- energy materials
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