Recent Advances of Catalysts and Nanostructured Materials

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasing recognition of the importance of nanostructured materials in heterogenous catalysis, it is timely to assemble this Special Issue to provide an up-to-date overview of the status of novel methods for nanostrucutred catalyst synthesis, as well as advances in catalysts. The advent of nanotechnology has allowed an immense scope and opportunities for the fabrication of desired nanostructured catalysts with large surface-to-volume ratios (and, hence, attractive chemical reactivities) and unique functionalities to heterogenous catalysis. Several disciplines of modern materials sciences are essential to the discovery, development, and improvement of advanced catalysts and nanostructured catalysts for chemical, petrochemical, environmental, energy, commodity, and fine chemical processes. Despite the impressive progress in all types of advanced catalysts and nanostructured catalysts, significant challenges still remain to be addressed. Nanostructured catalysts have played and will undoubtedly continue to play critical roles in the future development of catalysis technologies.

The objective of this Special Issue is to collect the newest and most crucial techniques for the controlled synthesis of nanostructured solid-state materials used as catalysis, particularly on state-of-the-art works on advance of catalysts and nanostructured materials. In addition to original research papers, comprehensive review articles are most welcome. It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit contributions to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Shaojun Yuan
Prof. Dr. Yuxin Zhang
Guest Editors

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