Emerging Molecular Research on Photocatalytic Functional Materials
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aimed at the environment and energy issues, photocatalysis is an emerging green technology that has wide applications in the degradation of environmental pollutants, water splitting, amine oxidation coupling reactions, and carbon dioxide reduction. Until now, varieties of functional nanocomposites as photocatalysts based on organic or inorganic molecular have been designed and prepared, such as, polymer, metal-organic complexes, covalent organic frameworks (COFs), metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), metal oxides/sulfides, inorganic carbon-nitrogen materials, etc. To improve photocatalytic conversion efficiency and explore the pathways of photocatalytic, it is very necessary to regulate the composition, structure and properties of materials from the molecular level perspective. In particular, the effective combination of different molecular composition is conducive to having synergistic effects on regulating the photoelectric-physical-chemical properties, energy potential position and increasing active sites. This special issue focuses on the design and development of photocatalytic functional materials to exploit the photocatalytic mechanism on the molecular level for precisely regulating the structure and composition of photocatalysts. Researchers’ new findings on photocatalytic functional composites are invited to be submitted to this special issue.
Dr. Yifan Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photocatalytic materials
- molecular level
- functional optimization
- mechanism
- synergistic effects
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