Improved Circular Economy Design Utilizing Novel Metal Oxides
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 455
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Interests: metal oxides; thin films; solid catalysts; semiconductors; solar cells; water treatment
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Dear Colleagues,
Metal oxide (MOs) nanoparticles have found various applications due to their high surface area-to-volume ratio, high reactivity, and good size distribution. Metal oxides are particularly promising in high-temperature thermoelectric (TE) materials due to their excellent high-temperature stability, eco-friendliness, and cost-effectiveness. Their stability also makes them good at performing catalysis reactions at high temperatures such as those in steelmaking >1300oC.
In our research center, we investigate sustainable steelmaking approaches and investigate the efficacy of utilizing agricultural, plastic waste, and biomass feedstocks, which have enormous opportunities to be a renewable carbon source in processes such as steelmaking, providing the solution to several environmental problems and reducing greenhouse gas emission by cutting down their reliance on virgin coal and other non-renewable (and often more expensive) feedstocks, improving the overall circular economy.
In this Special Issue, we hope to encourage researchers to submit their research utilizing MOs in the design of improved circular economy systems, performance, recycling, and material associated with the topics listed below.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Metals;
- Catalysis;
- Combustion;
- Green steelmaking;
- Greenhouse gas reduction;
- CO2 capture;
- Anti-fouling approaches;
- Green chemistry;
- Water clean-up
Dr. Eurig Wyn Jones
Guest Editor
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