Green Energy and Environmental Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Human society is facing great challenges due to various worldwide energy and environmental problems such as global warming, increasing energy consumption and serious environmental pollution. Although scholars have made great efforts to solve these problems through sustainable development, such as by utilizing clean energy (solar energy, wind energy, nuclear energy, etc.), developing efficient energy storage devices (batteries and super capacitors), exploring new technology of pollution purification, using environmentally friendly products instead of overexploiting natural resources and causing serious pollution, etc., it is urgent to further study the development of new high-performance materials in green energy and environment-related fields. Green energy materials can be used for energy storage and conversion, such as in batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, solar cells, photocatalysis/electrocatalysis, etc. Green environmental materials can be used for the elimination and reuse of pollutants, such as environmental photocatalysis/electrocatalysis, adsorbing materials, recyclable materials, membrane materials, etc. Green energy and environmental materials include, but are not limited to: carbon materials; phosphorus materials; metal oxides; perovskite materials; layered materials such as MoS₂, WTe₂, LDH, and clay; etc.

The objectives of this topic are broad, as we recognize the complexity of issues and challenges related to energy and environmental materials, and therefore, interdisciplinary experimental and theoretical work across basic science and engineering disciplines is particularly welcome. These areas include, but are not limited to, nanomaterials and their composites in energy and environment applications.

Dr. Hongda Li
Dr. Shumin Chen
Dr. Xintong Liu
Dr. Xiong He
Collection Editors

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