Functional 2D Nanomaterials for Photoelectrochemical Applications
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 4692
Special Issue Editor
Interests: functional nanomaterials; 2D nanomaterials; photoelectrocatalysis; overall water splitting; electrochemical sensors; CO2 utilization; wastewater treatment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have generated extensive research into their unique functional, electrical, and mechanical properties. 2D materials can play an important role in photoelectrochemical applications by incorporating their unique and extraordinary properties into semiconducting photoabsorbers and thus increasing their electrochemical activity. In recent years, various photoelectrochemical applications have been explored using state-of-the-art 2D materials such as graphene, MXene, layered double hydroxides (LDHs), black phosphorus (BP), transition metal sulfides, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), graphdiyne, and their semiconducting nanocomposites. The capability to use these functional materials as cathodes and anodes for a multitude of photoelectrochemical reactions is one of their major benefits. Photoelectrochemical applications include splitting water, reducing toxic gases (CO2, CO, etc), developing sensors, and oxidizing organic and inorganic toxic compounds in wastewater.
This Special Issue is intended to compile research articles, reviews, and communications covering topics related to the development of 2D materials and their nanocomposites for various electrochemical and photoelectrochemical applications.
We are pleased to invite you to submit your original research articles, reviews and communications to this Special Issue. The deadline for manuscript submission is 30 December 2023.
Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Development of 2D photoelectrocatalytic materials
- Photoelectrochemical applications of 2D nanomaterials
- Photoelectrochemical sensors and biosensors
- Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical water splitting
- Photovoltaic cells
- Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)
- Photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2, N2, and CO
- Photoelectrochemical deactivation of pathogens
- Photoelectrochemical oxidation organic and inorganic toxic compounds
- Photoelectrochemical capacitive deionization
- All photoelectrochemical related chemical reactions and applications.
Dr. Bharath Govindan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 2D Nanomaterials
- graphene
- photoelectrochemical applications
- photoelectrochemical sensors
- water splitting
- perovskite cells
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