Nanostructured Materials for Clean Energy Technologies
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2023)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: semiconductors; nanoengineering; carrier dynamics; interface optimization; photovoltaics; clean fuel production; environmental remediation; biomedical engineering
Interests: energy conversion; optoelectronics; ion implantation and irradiation; air purification; photocatalysis; photoelectrochemical; nanomaterial fabrication
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the past few decades, the energy demand has substantially increased due to unprecedented growth in the human population and economic development. At present, fossil fuels are immensely exploited in order to fulfil the current demand for energy. However, fossil fuels are limited and are rapidly depleting, which is one of the alarming concerns for mankind. In particular, the utilization of fossil fuels has led to global climate change at a staggering rate that negatively impacts human health and other living species. This prompted an increasing number of countries to intensify investment in the transition from fossil fuels to net-zero emission technologies. In this context, renewable energy resources such as solar, hydro, wind, biomass, etc., have emerged as promising alternatives to fossil fuels and attracted considerable attention from the scientific community to attain sustainable development goals.
This Special Issue is intended to accumulate research (research and review articles) based on the broad range of advanced nanostructured materials that can be potentially explored to harvest energy from renewable energy resources to develop clean energy technologies. The proposed topic of this Special Issue is, but is not limited to, the synthesis and development of nanostructured materials for clean energy technologies (energy conversion, storage, catalysis, treatment and remediation). Device architecture, interface engineering and optimizations of the device’s fabrication and integration technologies to make clean energy technologies more reliable, economically viable, and transformative are also of interest.
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Selopal
Dr. Puneet Kaur
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- semiconductors
- nanoengineering
- interface optimization
- carrier dynamics
- energy conversion (photovoltaics and clean fuel)
- energy storage
- water treatment
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