Graphene and Other 2D Layered Based Nanomaterials for Energy Applications

Dear Colleagues,

During the last decades, the world-wide power consumption has grown almost 15-fold. The most intensely exploited primary power sources are petroleum (30%), coal (20%), natural gas (20%), and nuclear fuel (6%). This has caused the increase in the carbon dioxide release into the atmosphere 4.5 times during the last 50 years, which gives rise to considerable ecological problems. Besides that, the obtained estimates of the conventional energy source resources demonstrate that the oil and gas resources are hardly sufficient for 100 years.  Thus, on the one hand, one of the basic problems of the modern power industry is to find alternative renewable power sources (e.g., hydrogen) and efficiently increase their share in the general power consumption. On the other hand, it is necessary to develop strategies for more efficient power storage, transmission, and conversion.  This is of particular interest owing to active development of the Internet of Things solutions, which require designing innovative low-power machines, systems, and devices.

In this view, graphene and other 2D Layered based nanomaterials that are characterized by unique atomic and electronic structures offer a broadest diversity of solutions and strategies in the field of energy applications. Chemical and physical properties of these materials may be efficiently designed, engineered and tuned for each specific energy application by using the controllable synthesis procedure, structure modification by chemical and physical methods, introducing impurities or creating defects, and also by combining them in hybrid structures.

The area of interest of the Special Issue is very broad. We expect contributions on the following topics:

• 2D materials
• layered materials
• 2D carbon-based nanocomposite and nanostructures
• graphene and graphene derivatives (GO, rGO, etc.)
• carbon nanotubes and their derivatives
• carbon nanofibers
• 2D layered hybrid nanomaterial-based films
• transition metal dichalcogenides (MX2)
• WS2
• MoS2
• transition metal carbides
• transition metal nitrides
• transition metal carbonitrides (MXenes)
• silicene
• germanene
• stanene
• van der Waals heterostructures
• interfaces
• 2D layered-based composites

Dr. Maria Brzhezinskaya
Guest Editor

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