High Performance Polymers for Energy Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 384
Special Issue Editor
Interests: scanning probe lithography; energy storage; supercapacitors; graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides; nanodevices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
At present, mankind needs to develop new materials and devices that are flexible, lightweight, low-cost, environmentally friendly, and ideally, biodegradable, abundant and multifunctional. This is due to the challenges we are facing such as the climate change, the contamination, the unfeasibility of the traditional energy sources and the unstoppable increase in the demand of electronic devices in our day-to-day lives. Polymers meet the aforementioned requirements. Therefore, they are investigated in this Special Issue on the development of sustainable and highly efficient devices for energy storage and conversion.
The title of this Special Issue in Polymers is ‘High-Performance Polymers for Energy Applications’. We welcome papers that report energy applications using the following materials:
(a) New polymeric materials that present outstanding or promising properties or performance;
(b) Well-known and widely used polymers that present improved properties or performance through novel engineering and fabrication strategies.
Energy applications include solar cells, electrochemical cells, catalysts, fuel cells, supercapacitors, batteries hydrogen storage, and beyond.
Dr. Yu Kyoung Ryu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymer-based energy storage devices
- polymer-based energy conversion devices
- organic solar cells
- organic fuel cells
- polymer supercapacitors
- polymer batteries
- polymer electrodes
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