Nanostructured Carbon-base Compounds in Renewable Energy Conversion, Energy Storage, and Environment Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The discoveries of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene ignited research booms chronologically in low-dimensional nanomaterials. Beyond these famous nanostructured carbon allotropes, various kinds of nanostructured carbon compounds have been synthesized and characterized recently, playing more and more important roles in sensing, pollutant degradation, renewable energy conversion, and energy storage. It is time to highlight new discoveries in the emerging fields and guide their potential applications.

This Special Issue is open for all contributors in the field of inorganic nanostructured carbon-base compounds beyond fullerenes/carbon nanotubes/graphene, especially in renewable energy conversions, energy storages, and environments. We invite submissions of original research and review articles to this Special Issue of Molecules, in areas that include but are not limited to the following:

• Nanostructured allotropes: nanodiamonds, carbon dots;
• Carbon compounds: carbides, carbonates, carbon nitride;
• Synthesis, characterization, modification, physical/chemical property, devices;
• Electrocatalytics, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, electronics, optoelectronics, and sensing;
• Solar cells, fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, sensors.

Prof. Yucheng Lan
Dr. Hongdong Li
Dr. Lawrence P. Cook
Guest Editors

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