Advances in the Design, Synthesis and Applications of Nanostructured Materials
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design and synthesis of new materials; nanostructured and atomic level materials; energy storage; hydrogen production; electro-oxidation of molecules
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Interests: biorefinery; bioenergy; catalysts
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The improvement in the quality of life people now experience has largely been due to the constant technological progress being made in our society. This progress has been achieved thanks to the use of new materials with nanometric dimensions, which have improved electrical and optical properties and have allowed us to solve various, mainly energy-based and environmental, problems through applications such as photovoltaic cells, fuel cells, sensors, batteries, and supercapacitors, among others. The nanostructures used in these applications are obtained from various precursors, which has led to them having a large number of conformations, designs, and compositions, with the latter being subdivided into inorganic, organic, or composite compositions.
This Special Issue on “Advances in the Design, Synthesis and Applications of Nanostructured Materials” seeks high-quality works focusing on the latest advances in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials used in energy storage and generation and catalytic and electrocatalytic processes.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The synthesis and electrosynthesis of nanostructured conducting polymers.
- The synthesis and electrosynthesis of nanomaterials with capacitive properties from wastes.
- The synthesis and electrosynthesis of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs).
- The synthesis and characterization of carbon-biobased nanostructures from unconventional raw materials.
- The application of nanomaterials in energy, biorefinery, catalysts, and electrocatalysts, among others.
Dr. Andrés Ramírez Ramírez
Dr. María Eugenia González
Dr. Mara Cea
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- nanostructures
- energy
- environment
- catalyst
- carbon-biobased nanostructures
- nanocomposite materials
- supercapacitors
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