Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the rapidly changing global climate and numerous environmental issues, the development of renewable energies and their storage with sustainability is highly desired. In recent years, polymers and their applications have recently received significant interest as a reliable approach for achieving sustainable energy storage and conversion. The use of polymers for the energy storage and conversion has been investigated intensely over the past few decades such as dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), organic photovoltaics (OSC), perovskite solar cells (PSC), fuel cells, and secondary batteries.

This Special Issue “Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion” covers the nanostructured polymers (or nano-polymers) and engineering of device architecture with an advanced polymer-based process for divergent energy storage and conversion applications with high sustainability involving solar energy systems, electrochemical cells, photocatalysts, artificial photosynthesis, fuel cells, supercapacitors, CO₂ conversions, or secondary (rechargeable) batteries. The scope of interests includes but is not limited to the following topics:

• Organic, inorganic, or hybrid solar cells (i.e., organic (or polymer) solar cells, dye (or QD) sensitized solar cells, thin-film solar cells, and perovskite solar cells);
• Solar fuel productions (i.e., artificial photosynthesis, photocatalysts, and photoelectrochemical cells);
• Electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting, CO₂ reduction, or ammonia (NH₃) synthesis;
• Electrode and membrane materials for fuel cells, capacitors, and secondary batteries;
• Nano-sciences and technologies for energy storage and conversion devices;
• The manufacturing process for energy storage and conversion devices;
• The engineering of device architecture and structure design for efficient energy storage and conversion.

Particularly, this Special Issue calls for papers on advanced polymer materials, the modulation of polymers and device architectures promoting high capability of energy storage, and efficient energy conversion.

Prof. Dr. Jung Kyu Kim
Guest Editor

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