New Insights into Hybrid Materials Based on Conductive Polymers and Their Use in Energy-Related Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Facing ever-increasing energy demands, limited fossil resources linked to environmental concerns and intermittent renewable energy supplies, Mankind urgently needs to find ways towards global sustainability. Several pathways are explored. Challenges, common to various approaches, have emerged for the development of clean, low-cost and stable energy technologies. Despite their promising potential and the important advances of the past decades, the efficiency of these technologies remains hampered by detrimental losses and degradation processes within the materials and devices.

Advanced hybrid materials engineering is one of the key areas to develop in order to overcome these drawbacks, by combining the advantages of carefully chosen components. Among these, conductive polymers have attracted much interest due to their tunable properties and easy processability. Understanding the correlation of device performances with material properties, further developing their processing technology and mastering their integration into functional devices is a timely, challenging and dynamic multidisciplinary field of research.

This Special Issue in Energy Materials aims to gather both original articles and reviews that report the recent progress in the development of electronic hybrid materials based on conductive polymers, having designed structures and tunable properties for applications ranging from energy harvesting (piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics, etc.), to conversion (photovoltaics, (photo)electrocatalysis, etc.) and storage (supercapacitors, batteries, etc.).

Dr. Marie-Pierre Santoni
Guest Editor

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