Hybrid Nanocomposites for Sustainable Development: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2021) | Viewed by 15214
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Interests: nanocomposites; nanoparticles; graphene oxide; graphene-based materials; synthesis; structural characterization; green chemistry; heterogeneous catalysis; selective hydrogenation; environmental catalysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Increasing energy demand and serious environmental issues, such as air pollution and global warming, are drastically threatening sustainable development. This has sparked intensive research on the development of sustainable, environmentally friendly technologies. The challenge is to obtain innovative materials to use in technologies for renewable energy and sustainable applications. In this context, hybrid nanocomposites are emerging as some of the most advanced next-generation systems for a large variety of possible applications, ranging from sensing and energy storage to heterogeneous, electro-, and photocatalysis. These nanostructured hybrids, fabricated by embedding metal or oxide nanoparticles into carbon frameworks (e.g., carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide, and others), exhibit enhanced or novel properties thanks to their intrinsic physicochemical features, such as high specific surface area, chemical inertness, great mechanical strength, and excellent electrical and thermal conductivity. It then becomes fundamentally important to acquire a detailed understanding of the structure and properties of these hybrid nanocomposites with outstanding performances.
This Special Issue of Nanomaterials will attempt to cover the current state-of-the-art in the field of hybrid nanocomposites, concerning their synthesis, properties, characterization, and applications in environmental processes and for energy conversion and storage
Prof. Dr. Maria Grazia Musolino
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hybrid nanocomposites
- carbon-based nanocomposites
- metal and metal oxide nanoparticles
- carbon frameworks
- synthesis
- characterization
- properties
- sustainable processes
- energy conversion and storage
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