Emerging Trends in Advanced Materials for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) and Supercapacitors
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 284
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Interests: Electrocatalysts; Energy storage; Fuel cells; Hydrogen generation; electrode; carbon nano architecture;
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Dear Colleagues,
Advanced functional materials are increasingly being investigated and applied in various new technologies and devices for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Supercapacitors demonstrate a great potential as a new excellent energy storage device owing to their fast charge-discharge rate, wide operating temperature range, and long-term stability. It is well known that the performance of supercapacitors depends mainly on electrode materials. The development of effective electrocatalysts for energy conversion is a key aspect for fuel cells, in which the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) involves several critical bottlenecks due to the dilatory reaction kinetics and multiple proton-couple electron transfer steps. It is important to develop electrocatalysts with high efficiency and durability, based on advanced functional materials to achieve low-cost electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Great efforts have been made to obtain high-performance Pt-free electrocatalysts such as Pt-free alloys, metal oxides, and carbon-based composite catalysts. Recent progress suggests that low cost and durable functional carbon materials can potentially be developed as efficient electrocatalysts. In this special issue a collection of recent studies about the subject of emerging trends in advanced materials as the electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) and supercapacitors is presented.
Dr. Mehdi Mehrpooya
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional materials
- electrocatalyst
- supercapacitors
- oxygen reduction reaction
- fuel cells
- energy conversion
- energy storage
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