Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy Harvesting and Conversion
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 December 2025 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon nanomaterials; battery; metal electrodes; aqueous electrolytes; interfacial engineering; nanoparticles
Interests: electrocatalysis; photocatalysis; hydrogen evolution; single-atom catalysts; metal-air battery; high entropy alloy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The transition toward sustainable energy calls for advanced materials and technologies that enable efficient energy harvesting and conversion with minimal environmental impact. Nanotechnology provides powerful tools to unlock unprecedented possibilities for capturing, storing, and converting energy in environmentally responsible ways. From single-atom catalysts to nanoengineered electrodes, nanomaterials across multiple dimensions and scales have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in enhancing charge transport, efficient surface chemistry, and nano-confined environments, making them key enablers in the advancement of sustainable and powerful energy technologies.
This Special Issue, “Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy Harvesting and Conversion”, will present comprehensive research outlining progress in the application of nanostructures to advance sustainable energy harvesting, conversion, and storage. We invite authors to contribute original articles covering the latest developments in nanostructured sustainable energy technologies.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Nanoengineered catalytic systems—electrocatalytic, photocatalytic, and thermocatalytic processes for water splitting, CO2/N2 reduction, and fuel cells, with emphasis on surface/interface design, spatially confined reaction environments, and the development of sustainable, precious-metal-free catalysts based on earth-abundant metals.
- Sustainable energy devices—coupled systems that combine catalytic conversion with energy storage functionalities, such as catalyst–battery hybrids (such as metal–air, metal–CO2 battery, etc.), advanced aqueous batteries and supercapacitors, and redox-flow energy storage systems, etc.
- Nanomaterial synthesis—green nanostructured synthesis strategies, along with characterization techniques for nanostructures. Functional sustainable nanomaterials.
Dr. Yurong Zhou
Dr. Zhipeng Yu
Dr. Qian Gong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electrocatalysis
- aqueous batteries and supercapacitors
- single-atom catalyst and photocatalysis
- electrochemical actuator
- nanostructured confinement
- interface engineering
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