Novel Nanomaterials for Photocatalysis
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Photochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 714
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photocatalysis; degradation kinetics; advanced oxidation/reduction processes; nanomaterial surface properties
Interests: Nanomaterials green synthesis; multifunctional materials; composite materials; surface modification; antimicrobial activity
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Interests: polymers; composites; nanomaterials; green materials; natural extracts; antibacterial nanoparticles; electrospinning; material characterization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in photocatalytic nanomaterials have introduced innovative materials with enhanced light absorption, charge separation, and catalytic efficiency. These achievements address critical challenges in environmental remediation, clean energy production, and sustainable chemistry. Key innovations include plasmonic hybrids, Earth-abundant cocatalysts, and biomass conversion strategies driven by structural and compositional engineering. Nanomaterials are considered the best photocatalysts due to their high stability, safety, low cost, and superior photoactivity. Photocatalysis is an environmentally friendly, cost-effective, and highly efficient approach for removing various pollutants, such as heavy metals, organic, inorganic, and microbial contaminants, in the presence of light and catalysts, and it is also a key technology for producing clean fuels.
We hope this Special Issue of Molecules will cover the recent progress in nanomaterials for photocatalysis, including the synthesis of new and improved photocatalysts using chemical, physical, and biological approaches, new applications, and the in-depth comprehension of reaction mechanisms.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The design and synthesis of nanomaterial photocatalysts with tailored optical properties.
- Nanomaterial photocatalysts for clean fuel resources.
- Nanomaterial photocatalysts for CO2 reduction.
- Photocatalytic advanced oxidation/reduction processes for the degradation of environmental pollutants.
- Studies of the photocatalysis reaction mechanism.
- Self-cleaning surfaces using photocatalysis.
- Factors affecting the activity of nanomaterial photocatalysts.
- Nanomaterial photocatalysts for biological applications.
Dr. Joanna Kisała
Dr. Denisa Ficai
Dr. Gianluca Viscusi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photocatalyst synthesis
- band gap engineering
- enhanced light absorption
- clean energy
- advanced oxidation/reduction processes
- self-cleaning coatings
- photocatalysis reaction mechanisms
- artificial photosynthesis
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