Future Sustainable Energy Materials
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Advanced Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 364
Special Issue Editor
Interests: materials physics; energy materials; quantum materials; sustainability; neutron scattering; X-ray spectroscopy; muon spin rotation
Special Issue Information
One of the most important scientific problems to solve in our modern society is how to harvest, store, and efficiently utilize sustainable energy. Current energy technologies and materials have several limitations in performance, lifetime, safety, as well as disadvantages concerning recyclability, natural resources, and environmental impact. In order to accomplish a paradigm shift in this crucial field, a new generation of sustainable energy materials needs to be developed and understood. Recent developments in experimental techniques, both in-house and large-scale facilities (X-ray, neutron, and muon sources) are now opening up new possibilities. Such methods allow scientists to directly study structure (atomic, electronic, magnetic) on the atomic scale as well as real-time dynamics of both individual materials along with in operando studies of actual working devices. In addition, state-of-the-art computational methods are used in parallel to both predict and understand intrinsic material properties.
In this Special Issue of Energies, we wish to collect a series of articles that showcase current advances and emerging fields within Future Sustainable Energy Materials. We therefore kindly invite leading scientists to submit papers within a comprehensive scope covering materials and devices within, e.g., batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, photovoltaics, permanent magnets, thermoelectrics, as well as electrolysis, catalysis, and energy efficiency.
We look forward to high-quality research presented in a spirit that makes the science accessible also to non-specialists. This will allow our Special Issue to be applied not only by the scientific community but also to function as an overview for industry, funding bodies, and policy makers.
Prof. Dr. Martin Månsson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- energy materials and devices
- sustainable society
- environmental impact
- batteries
- supercapacitors
- hydrogen storage
- fuel cells
- photovoltaics
- permanent magnets
- thermoelectrics
- electrolysis
- catalysis
- energy conversion
- energy storage
- energy efficiency
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