Innovative Materials for Photocatalytic Activities and Energy Storage

Dear Colleagues,

Innovative materials will play a fundamental role in the future energy challenges that our world will face. The energy demands of a growing global population and the economic needs of still-underdeveloped countries have to be taken into account while, at the same time, giving careful consideration to the limited resources still available on our planet. The continuous investigation of sustainable energy is and will be the big challenge for the researchers in the upcoming future. The average annual global energy consumption is of 470 EJ (470 billion of billions of joules), while every year, the earth receives 5,500,000 EJ (5.5 million of billions of billions of joule) from the sun: from these numbers, it becomes obvious that future energy production free of fossil fuels would have to be based on solar irradiation intercepted by our planet. These data have compelled the scientific community to pay increasing attention to the area of photocatalysis and energy storage. Photocatalytic processes aim to exploit light energy, possibly coming from the sun, to promote chemical transformations. The development and study of innovative materials that are easy to find and abundant on the earth’s crust, both for photocatalytic processes and for their use in energy storage, will be a stimulating challenge for many scientists in the coming years.

This Special Issue, therefore, is an attempt to contribute to this stimulating topic through enhancing scientific and multidisciplinary knowledge toward improving the performance and development of new materials, bringing some focus onto photocatalysis and energy storage. We therefore invite papers on innovative scientific developments, reviews, case studies, analytical, as well as assessments which are relevant to sustainable and renewable energy systems.

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• innovative abundant earth materials
• light harvesting
• photocatalysts
• renewable energy
• energy storage
• exploitation of sunlight