Insights into Chemical Looping Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Chemical looping technology (CLT) has emerged as a pivotal chemical strategy for advancing clean energy conversion and carbon neutrality, furnishing a versatile platform to tackle pressing global energy and environmental exigencies. Its core lies in innovative redox chemistry, utilizing metal oxide oxygen carriers to separate and transfer oxygen for fuel conversion.

This Special Issue focuses on the fundamental chemical principles and cutting-edge material designs that underpin the sustainable advancement of CLT. We solicit high-quality original research focusing on oxygen carrier chemistry, encompassing their rational synthesis, reaction mechanism elucidation, redox kinetic behavior, and long-term stability under cyclic operational conditions. We also encourage contributions exploring novel chemical pathways for looping systems, the seamless integration with renewable energy sources (e.g., solar-driven redox looping cycles), and the chemical valorization of alternative feedstocks for value-added product generation. Furthermore, submissions leveraging advanced characterization techniques and theoretical modeling approaches to decipher intricate reaction mechanisms and interfacial surface interactions are also highly welcome.

Dr. Liyan Sun
Dr. Ruming Pan
Guest Editors

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