Functional Oxide Materials for Energy and Environmental Processes

Dear Colleagues,

Functional oxide materials exhibit a broad range of electrical, dielectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, catalytic, ionic, optical, and magnetic properties, making them important for emerging energy and environmental technologies. Through compositional modification, defect engineering, interface design, and advanced processing, oxide materials can be tailored for applications including energy storage and conversion, catalysis, sensing, separation, pollutant remediation, and sustainable chemical processes.

Recent developments in bulk ceramics, thin films, heterostructures, nanostructures, porous materials, and composites have created new opportunities to improve functional performance, operational stability, and processing efficiency. A deeper understanding of the relationships among composition, crystal structure, defects, interfaces, processing conditions, and macroscopic properties is essential for translating these materials into practical devices and processes.

This Special Issue, entitled “Functional Oxide Materials for Energy and Environmental Processes”, seeks high-quality original research articles, reviews, and communications addressing recent advances in the design, preparation, characterization, modelling, and application of functional oxide materials.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ferroelectric, dielectric, piezoelectric, and electrocaloric oxides;
• Oxide materials for energy storage and conversion;
• Photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and heterogeneous catalysis;
• Solid electrolytes, ionic conductors, and fuel-cell materials;
• Environmental sensing, gas detection, and pollutant remediation;
• Oxide membranes, porous materials, and separation processes;
• Thin films, heterostructures, nanomaterials, and composites;
• Defect, interface, domain, and microstructure engineering;
• Sustainable synthesis, processing, modelling, and device integration.

Dr. Yunlong Sun
Dr. Lei Wang
Dr. Xun Geng
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.