Novel Materials for Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability is highly desired for humanbeings due to the urgently changing global climate and numerous environmental issues. In past decades, the-state-of-the-art researches have been extensively conducted to achieve sustainable energy conversion and storage.  However, the remained challenges in the commercialization of enegy conversion and stroage devices are to develop novel materials and advanced manufacturing process. Further, the engineering of nanostructures and device-archtectures is of great importance for the energy conversion and storage flatforms. This special issue “Novel Materals for Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage” aims the-state-of-the-art resarch reports of novel nanometerials and engineering of device archtectures with advanced manufacturing process for divergent energy conversion and storage applications with high sustainability involing solar energy systems, electrochemical cells, artificial photosynthesis, CO₂ conversion to over C₂ production or secondary (rechargeable) batteries. The scope of interests includes but is not limited to the following topics:

• Organic, inorganic or hybrid solar cells (i.e. organic (or polymer) solar cells, dye (or QD) sensitized solar cells, thin-film solar cells, perovskite solar cells)
• Solar fuel productions (i.e. artificial photosynthesis, photocatalysts, photoelectrochemical cells)
• Electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting, CO₂ reduction or ammonia (NH₃) synthesis
• Cleaning technologies for removal of VOC or other pollutants
• Anode, cathode and seperator materials for secondary batteries
• Nano-sciences and technologies for energy conversion and storage deives
• Manufacturing process for energy conversion and storage deives
• Engineering of device archtecture and structure design for efficient energy conversion and storage

Particularly, this special issue calls for papers on advanced materials and device architectures promoting efficient energy conversion and high capability of energy storage.

Prof. Dr. Jung Kyu Kim
Guest Editor

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