Sustainable Development of Nanomaterials for Advanced Energy Fuels and Environmental Protection

Dear Colleagues,

Since the beginning of the 21st century, nanomaterials and their applications in catalytic processes have been an intensively growing field of science and knowledge and the rapid development of new methods of synthesis, scaling up and the characterization of nanostructures has directly influenced the expansion of achievable limits, especially in fields such as chemistry and materials engineering. Currently, the central point of interest of research teams, and, in particular, the R&D departments of companies in the energy sector and automotive industry, is a focus on the challenges of sustainable energy production, storage, and its controlled release. This last issue plays a key role in ensuring stable and uninterrupted supply in energy networks and the automotive industry. These ideas especially include the use of H₂, NH₃ and CH₄ to store and manage energy sources in order to optimize the use of energy from renewable sources. According to the concept of sustainable development, these processes should also include the use of greenhouse gases in order to protect the natural environment. Biofuels from renewable sources of the third and, in the future, fourth generation particularly fit into these assumptions. Nanometallic catalysts enable the selective and waste-free production of products that meet environmental protection standards through the use of technologies aimed at adhering to green chemistry guidelines. This necessitates a global look at the chemical processes affecting the natural environment. Nanocatalysts designed for these processes fit into the concept of applying the principles of nuclear economics by increasing the efficiency of individual processes while reducing multi-stage processes and reducing the amount of harmful waste. In the long term, the growing use of nanomaterials in the economy will contribute to a faster energy transformation by reducing the consumption and rational use of energy, as well as reducing the emission of harmful pollutants.

In this special issue on the “Sustainable Development of Nanomaterials for Advanced Energy Fuels and Environmental Protection”, we strongly encourage you to submit original articles, reviews, and short communications, especially those focusing on the use of nanocatalysts in the fields of energy storage, biofuel synthesis, clean energy and resource production processes based on zero-waste technologies, pollution reduction processes and the application of synthesis products in environmental protection.

Dr. Maciej Kapkowski
Dr. Tomasz Siudyga
Dr. Piotr Bartczak
Guest Editors

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