Advanced Materials for Sustainable Energy and Catalysis

Dear Colleagues,

The transition toward a low-carbon and sustainable society has created an urgent demand for advanced materials that enable efficient energy conversion, storage, and catalytic transformation. In recent years, significant progress has been made in the design and synthesis of functional materials with tailored structures and compositions, opening new opportunities to address critical challenges in sustainable energy and catalysis.

This Special Issue, ‘Advanced Materials for Sustainable Energy and Catalysis’, seeks to showcase recent advances in the development, characterization, and application of innovative materials for sustainable energy and catalytic processes. We welcome high-quality contributions exploring how such materials can improve the performance of technologies, including hydrogen production, oxygen reduction and evolution reactions, carbon dioxide capture and conversion, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, biomass conversion, fuel cells, batteries, and supercapacitors. Particular interest will be given to studies on structure–performance relationships, in situ and operando characterization, mechanistic understanding at the atomic and molecular scales, and computational or data-driven approaches for material discovery and process optimization.

Interdisciplinary research bridging materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering, nanotechnology, and energy science is especially encouraged. Both fundamental investigations and application-oriented studies are welcome, including original research articles, communications, and review papers. By bringing together cutting-edge research in this rapidly evolving field, this Special Issue will provide a timely platform for scientific exchange and support the development of next-generation materials and catalytic technologies for a cleaner, more sustainable future.

Dr. Kang Sun
Guest Editor

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