Carbon Composites for Energy Conversion and Storage
A special issue of Journal of Composites Science (ISSN 2504-477X). This special issue belongs to the section "Carbon Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 2185
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synthesis, characterization, and applications of various novel functional nanomaterials in energy conversion and storage
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Interests: design, synthesis, and characterization of functional nanomaterials for sensing, energy conversion (i.e., water splitting, solar fuels production), and storage (supercapacitors, batteries, and fuel cells)
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Interests: synthesis and characterization of IF-WS2, CNT, graphene, 2D materials, W18O49/NiO for energy generation and storage applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With increasing energy demands and rising concerns about energy shortages, there is an intense effort worldwide to find sustainable and green energy sources as alternatives to widely used fossil fuels. Whilst energy generation from these sustainable sources is of the utmost importance, energy conversion and storage are equally essential. The latter issue relies heavily on the development of smart materials and novel strategies that may generate cost-effective nanomaterials and nanocomposites with superb performance in energy conversion and storage technologies.
Among a plethora of new materials being investigated, carbon combined with various forms of metals/oxides/chalcogenides to create composites with complex structural configurations has shown promising performance, at low cost, in the diverse area of energy conversion and storage. This is an area of particular interest for this Special Issue.
The above interests are the driving force of this Special Issue, which will address the different challenges directly linked to carbon-based advanced composites and summarize recent developments achieved in the broad range of energy conversion and storage applications. The scope of this Special Issue will cover the composite synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation that is associated with the conversion and storage of thermal, solar, electrochemical, mechanical, and hydrogen energies.
Prof. Yanqiu Zhu
Dr. Oluwafunmilola Ola
Dr. Nannan Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nanocomposites
- Functional materials
- Carbon
- Energy conversion
- Energy storage
