Nanoscale Materials for Advanced Electrocatalysts
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Nanoscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electrocatalysis reinforces sustainable fuel synthesis, energy storage, and environmental remediation, and catalyst dimensionality is a powerful lever for performance. This Special Issue focuses on nanoscale materials across dimensionalities, i.e., 0D (clusters, nanoparticles, quantum dots), 1D (nanowires, nanotubes), 2D (graphene, MXenes, layered oxides/chalcogenides), and 3D (aerogels, foams, hierarchically porous frameworks), and on how size, shape, defects, strain, phase, and interfaces evolve under electrochemical bias. We are particularly interested in architectures that couple electron/ion transport with bubble/gas management and wettability, as well as single-atom sites, core–shell/alloys, and heterostructures tailored for HER, OER, ORR, CO2RR, NRR, urea/alcohol oxidation, and metal-air systems in acidic, alkaline, neutral, or saline media.
The Special Issue aims to showcase the following: (i) scalable and green syntheses, (ii) interfacial/defect/phase engineering across dimensions, (iii) in-situ/operando spectroscopy–microscopy and multiscale theory/ML, and (iv) device-level demonstrations (flow cells, MEAs, FCs) with rigorous metrics (ECSA-normalized activity, mass activity, TOF, selectivity, stability at industrial current densities, and accelerated durability protocols). We welcome original articles, communications, perspectives, and reviews that advance reproducibility. Life-cycle/techno-economic analyses and standardization of reporting are encouraged. Purely non-electrochemical catalysis or descriptive materials studies without electrochemical evaluation fall outside the scope unless they directly inform electrocatalyst design or operation.
Dr. Safia Khan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- electrocatalysis
- electrocatalysts
- energy conversion
- fuel cells
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