Sustainable Photochemical Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Production
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2023) | Viewed by 1636
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the development of new materials and test-bed prototypes based on abundant elements for solar fuel production
Interests: design and fabricate novel photoelectrodes/catalysts with high selectivity, high stability for photoelectrochemical/electrochemical CO2 reduction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global climate change is one of the largest nontraditional challenges to the environment and human development. Therefore, reducing greenhouse gas emissions has become the focus of international politics and cooperation for economic development. Among emerging green technologies, photochemical system has been viewed as a promising approach to reduce CO2 emission and achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, which utilizes solar energy and converting water/CO2 to hydrogen or carbon-based fuels. To date, numerous photochemical systems have been developed to obtain a viable solar-to-fuel production with decent energy efficiency, including photocatalytic, photovoltaic-electrochemical, photoelectrochemical, solar thermochemical, etc. However, more efforts in both the scientific and engineering aspects are still needed to meet the requirement of industrial implementation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Calculation of thermal, photo- or electrocatalysis behavior on the basis of quantum mechanical considerations;
- Multi-physics simulation framework for photochemical systems;
- Materials for photocatalytic, photovoltaic–electrochemical, photoelectrochemical, solar thermochemical, and other emerging systems;
- Prototype devices for water splitting or CO2
Dr. Ya Liu
Dr. Feng Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solar energy
- photochemical
- hydrogen
- carbon-based fuels
