Advanced Catalytic Materials for Energy: Properties and Characterisation

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on advanced catalytic materials for sustainable energy conversion, with a particular emphasis on how composition, interface structure, morphology, and processing govern catalytic performance and durability. Contributions are invited on the design, synthesis, modification, and characterization of catalytic materials relevant to electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, thermocatalysis, and hybrid catalytic systems for reactions associated with hydrogen production, oxygen evolution and reduction, carbon dioxide conversion, nitrogen-related transformations, and energy storage interfaces. Topics of interest include nanostructured catalysts, thin films and coatings, multi-component and heterostructured materials, defect and phase engineering, surface and interface regulation, operando/in situ characterization, and structure–property–performance correlations. This Special Issue particularly welcomes studies that combine material synthesis with rigorous physicochemical characterization and mechanistic insight, thereby advancing the development of catalytic materials for next-generation energy technologies.

Dr. Javid Khan
Guest Editor

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