Nanocatalysts for Electro-Oxidation
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 7662
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Interests: electrochemistry; nanocatalyst; nanomaterials for electrochemical energy devices; bifunctional electrochemical devices; power to chemicals and fuels; biosensors; chemosensors
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Dear Colleagues,
Electrochemical oxidation is an important process being a critical part of several technologically relevant devices such as fuel cells, electrolyzers, and electrochemical sensors and biosensors. Electro-oxidation involves the removal of electrons from chemical substance under electric potential. The advent of nanotechnology has heralded a new era in developing catalytic electrode materials for several important electrochemical reactions, such as water oxidation and oxidation of small molecules like hydrogen, ammonia, urea, and methanol. It is imperative to emphasize the electronic structure and high surface area attribute to the nanosize are the main enhancing factors of the anodic reactions. The nanostructured electrode materials for electro-oxidation reactions are designed, synthesized, and characterized using advanced in-situ and ex-situ spectroscopic and microscopic techniques. Having said that, the activity and selectivity of electrochemical oxidation reactions is governed by many factors, including electrolyte pH, nature of the electrolyte, catalyst support, the electrochemically active surface area of nanocatalyst and support, the density of catalytic sites present in the electrodes. Apart from activity and selectivity, stability of nanosize catalyst is a crucial factor in industrial-scale fuel cells or electrolyzers.
All synthetic methods and approaches to prepare nanocatalyst for electrochemical oxidation processes, in-situ/ex-situ spectroscopic and microscopic methods to probe the structure of the nanocatalysts, articles on the investigation of the stability of nanocatalysts, novel methods to improve the dispersion of nanocatalyst on supports are welcome.
We particularly welcome articles that present the study of structure-electrochemical activity relationships and those that contribute toward the understanding of nanocatalyst design principles. We invite submissions of original research articles or comprehensive reviews.
Dr. Palaniappan Subramanian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nanostructures
- Novel catalyst supports
- Nanocomposites
- Electrochemical oxidation of small organic molecules
- Electrochemical water splitting
- Hydrogen anodes in acidic /alkaline electrolytes
- Small organic molecules oxidation
- Ammonia anodic oxidation
- New synthetic approaches for fabrication of nano catalysts
- Structure, property, and electro-oxidation relationships of nanocatalyst
- Stability aspects of nanocatalyst electrodes
- In-operando/in-situ spectroscopic diagnostic methods
- Electrode anodic kinetics and mechanistic invetigations
- Nanocatalyst application in industrial-scale devices
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