Nanostructured Electrode Materials for Next-Generation Energy Storage and Conversion
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editors
Interests: batteries; supercapacitors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid growth of renewable energy technologies, electric vehicles, and portable electronics has driven an unprecedented demand for high-performance energy storage and conversion systems. Conventional electrode materials, while widely used, often face challenges related to capacity, stability, and scalability. Over the past two decades, nanostructured materials have emerged as a transformative solution, owing to their unique physicochemical properties, including high surface area, tunable porosity, improved ion/electron transport, and enhanced electrochemical activity. These advances have already enabled significant progress in lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, and beyond. This field is continuing to evolve rapidly, moving from fundamental investigations of nanostructure synthesis to practical designs for scalable, sustainable, and multifunctional electrode technologies.
This Special Issue on “Nanostructured Electrode Materials for Next-Generation Energy Storage and Conversion” aims to provide a platform for highlighting the latest advances in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of nanostructured electrodes. The scope includes both fundamental and applied research, with a strong emphasis on strategies that bridge the gap between laboratory innovation and real-world deployment. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced nanostructured electrodes for supercapacitors, metal-ion, metal–sulfur, solid-state, and multivalent batteries.
- Hierarchical, porous, and hybrid electrode architectures for improved charge storage.
- Nanomaterial-enabled electrocatalysts for fuel cells, water splitting, and CO₂ reduction.
- Multifunctional nanostructures integrating energy storage with catalysis, sensing, or self-healing.
- Scalable and sustainable synthesis strategies for nanostructured electrodes, including green chemistry approaches.
- In situ and operando studies for probing nanoscale electrochemical processes.
- Computational modeling and machine learning tools for predicting structure–property relationships.
We invite contributions in the form of original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and short communications. Submissions offering mechanistic insights, innovative fabrication techniques, or new concepts for scalable and sustainable energy storage are especially encouraged. Papers that address safety, cost, and environmental sustainability, in addition to electrochemical performance, will also receive particular attention.
We look forward to your valuable contributions and to creating a high-quality collection that will advance the field of nanostructured electrode materials for next-generation energy storage and conversion.
Dr. Sadananda Muduli
Prof. Dr. Antonysamy Dennyson Savariraj
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanostructured materials
- electrode design
- energy storage and conversion
- batteries and supercapacitors
- electrocatalysis
- sustainable synthesis
- next-generation technologies
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