Advanced Catalytic Materials in Environmental Applications

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to welcome you to this booming, inspiring, and leading-edge Special Issue entitled “Advanced Catalytic Materials in Environmental Applications”. With the rapid development of human society, the problem of environmental pollutants is becoming increasingly serious. Developing novel and efficient materials for pollutant treatment in water, air, and soil has received widespread approbation and attention. Based on the oxidation–reduction reaction, refractory organics and heavy metals with high toxicity can be converted to small molecules and low toxicity substances by utilizing catalysts under illumination, electricity supply, and heating conditions. In addition, catalysis technology possesses great merits, including environmental sustainability, chemical stability, efficiency, and so on.

Therefore, our aim in this Special Issue focuses on advanced catalytic materials for environmental applications including, but not limited to, photocatalysts, electrocatalysts, and persulfate activators for organic matter degradation, heavy metal catalytic reduction, NO_x and CO₂ catalytic reduction, etc. We look forward to receiving your contributions (both original research papers and reviews) soon, so we can present your excellent findings to a broad audience via open-access publication and supply the research community with new perspectives on advanced catalytic materials and their application in pollutant control.

Dr. Kun Liu
Dr. Hanbing Zhang
Guest Editors

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