Low-Dimensional Functional Materials and Devices
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2021) | Viewed by 13652
Special Issue Editor
Interests: low-dimensional functional materials and their applications; 2D materials synthesis; lithium ion battery; sodium ion battery; Mg ion battery; supercapacitor; catalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
When the size and dimensions of various materials are reduced to the nanoscale regime, the materials will exhibit particular dimension-dependent electronic structures and physical and chemical characters. Low-dimensional materials, such as one-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional (2D) graphene, have received great attention for their optical, thermal, electrical, biomedical, environmental and catalytic applications. Moreover, low-dimensional materials are also emerging as the functional building blocks for advanced devices, including energy storage and conversion systems and nanomechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems. Particularly, graphene-like 2D nanomaterials are constructed by unique planar crystals with atomic scale thickness, resulting in a high percentage of surface atoms, highly efficient active sites and specific facets exposed on the external surface, which can convert almost active materials into surfaces and allow ultrafast surface-dominant electrochemical and catalytic processes. Low-dimensional functional materials and devices are a typical interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary frontier subject. Research in this field has mainly been related to material synthesis, characterization and functionalization as well as device fabrication and measurement. The challenges and prospects of low-dimensional functional materials and devices are, at present, wide open and require scientific attention.
This Special Issue on “Low-Dimensional Functional Materials and Devices” welcomes original research work and reviews on experimental or theoretical/computational studies of all kinds of subjects related to this field. The development of novel low-dimensional functional materials and their applications in lithium ion batteries, sodium ion batteries, magnesium ion batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, supercapacitors and catalysis comprises a short—and definitely not exhaustive—list of possible subjects for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Chuanbao Cao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 0D, 1D and 2D materials synthesis
- lithium ion battery
- sodium ion battery
- Mg ion battery
- fuel cell
- solar cell
- supercapacitor
- catalysis
- biomedical applications
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