Design and Application of Nanomaterials in Photoenergy Conversions
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 42
Special Issue Editor
Interests: solar-to-fuel conversion; photocatalysis; water splitting reaction; inorganic nanomaterial chemistry; 1D/2D nanomaterials; interfacial engineering of nanostructured materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The environmental challenges caused by using fossil fuels, as well as their reduced reserves, have led to an urgent demand for the widespread use of sustainable and clean energy. In this context, much effort has been devoted to developing the efficient utilization of solar energy, which is viewed as one of the most important practical renewable energy sources for large-scale use in the form of heat, electricity, and chemicals. Solar-to-fuel conversion, using semiconductors, is a promising avenue for the storage of solar energy in molecular bonds by conducting different reactions with catalysts, such as hydrogen production, CO2 reduction for organic fuels, N2 reduction to NH3, degradation of pollutants, etc. The design and optimization of semiconductor-based photocatalysts are key to the efficiency of photocatalytic reactions, particularly in relation to boosting the light absorption, charge separation, and surface reactivity. Therefore, it is highly essential to design new catalysts with optimal structures, tunable morphology, and abundant active sites, which provide a substantial scope for catalyst design and are now attracting extensive research attention.
The present Special Issue in Nanomaterials aims to present the use of nanocatalysts in photoenergy conversion reactions, which may inspire some new innovations in the rational design and synthesis of efficient photocatalysts, speeding up the the commercial use of clean energy technologies. By summarizing the current research progress on their use for photocatalysis, we hope this Special Issue can inspire some new ideas for the future design of high performance photocatalysts and provide some clues for achieving the final target, i.e., their industrial use.
Dr. Rama Krishna Chava
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- one-dimensional heterostructures
- porous two-dimensional nanosheets
- interfacial engineering
- photocatalysis
- solar-to-fuel conversion reactions
- nanostructured photocatalysts
- defect-engineered photocatalysts
- environmental remediation reactions
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