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Advanced Carbon Materials in Environment and Energy Storage

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2026) | Viewed by 809

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Interests: synthesis of metal sulfide nanoparticles/nanocomposites; metal oxides; carbon quantum dots and carbon nanotubes; applications in nanotechnology; chemical sensing; water treatment; renewable energy
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Dear Colleagues,

We are glad to extend an invitation to you to participate and contribute to a special edition of Advanced Carbon Materials in Environment and Energy Storage. This issue is planned to highlight the cutting-edge developments and inventive uses for carbon-based materials, with a major focus on environmental issues and energy storage. The goal of this Special Issue is to compile state-of-the-art research on the synthesis, characterization, and uses of carbon compounds for energy storage and environmental protection technologies.

Original research pieces, reviews, and brief messages on the following subjects are welcome, while they are not restricted to them: advanced carbon materials, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon dots, activated carbon, and carbon fibers, being synthesized and modified; carbon materials being used in carbon sequestration, pollution capture, analytical methods, and water and air purification; materials made of carbon for energy storage devices, such as batteries, supercapacitors, and green and ecological synthesis techniques for carbon compounds; carbon compounds with hybrid properties for analytical applications, remediation of environmental pollutants, improved energy storage, and conversion performance; and carbon components included in solar energy and fuel cell devices.

Dr. Johannes Zanoxolo Mbese
Dr. Lawrence Mzukisi Madikizela
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Keywords

  • graphene
  • carbon nanotubes
  • energy storage
  • environmental remediation
  • sustainable synthesis
  • hybrid carbon materials
  • solar energy and fuel cells

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Research on the Current Development Status of Redox Flow Batteries
by Runze Li, Han Yan, Yang Guo, Zizhen Yan, Shiling Yuan and Meng Lin
Molecules 2026, 31(6), 943; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules31060943 - 11 Mar 2026
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In recent years, flow batteries have emerged as a crucial technological solution for large-scale energy storage, leveraging their unique power-capacity decoupling characteristics and long cycle life to demonstrate significant potential in applications such as renewable energy integration and grid frequency regulation. Based on [...] Read more.
In recent years, flow batteries have emerged as a crucial technological solution for large-scale energy storage, leveraging their unique power-capacity decoupling characteristics and long cycle life to demonstrate significant potential in applications such as renewable energy integration and grid frequency regulation. Based on differences in electrolyte systems, mainstream flow battery technologies are primarily categorized into three types: all-vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs), iron-chromium redox flow batteries (ICFBs), and zinc-based redox flow batteries (ZRFBs). However, each of these technologies faces critical challenges in practical commercialization: VRFBs are constrained by cost pressures due to fluctuations in vanadium resource prices and relatively low energy efficiency; ICFBs require urgent solutions to issues such as hydrogen evolution side reactions at the negative electrode and the sluggish kinetic responses of the Cr3+/Cr2+ redox couple; while ZRFBs grapple with safety concerns such as zinc dendrite growth and morphology instability. To overcome these technical bottlenecks, extensive innovative research has been conducted in key materials (electrodes, ion-exchange membranes, electrolytes). Against this backdrop, this paper systematically reviews recent advances in the modification and optimization of flow battery technologies and conducts an extended discussion on the emerging organic redox flow batteries in recent years. Full article
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