Energy Ecosystem: New Policy Understanding, Media Communication and Advanced Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

As we all know, the world is facing energy shortage and environmental pollution problems caused by an excessive traditional energy consumption. In recent years, the international community has paid more attention to carbon dioxide emissions, and the concept of a "zero-carbon society" has gradually taken root in the hearts of the people. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, building an environmentally friendly country and vigorously promoting the use of new energy have become the global consensus.

Developing countries have established a series of preferential policies to vigorously support new energy. Therefore, it is urgent for academic circles to summarize and interpret the energy policies of developing countries and predict their future development trend of energy resources. Meanwhile, in order to establish a sustainable concept as a social consensus, the government promotes public interpretations of new energy through diversified media channels, with both the traditional mass media and new digital media being very important ways towards advocating the public use of energy and the adoption of new energy in the industrial society, especially with novel digital technology developing so quickly, tremendously changing how the public transmits information.  Therefore, the question requiring emphasis is how should the public’s interpretation and cognition of new energy be promoted in the new media environment characterized by social media? The media communication of sustainable energy is a big challenge, especially concerning the implementation of new energy policies in developing countries, but it is the primary method to target an integrated sustainable energy ecology.

The energy industry is the economic lifeline of countries, and even the world, with its improvement and reform relying on energy technology innovations. In the case of a greater future energy shortage, industrial technological innovations will become an important factor affecting international policies. Specifically, the academic community focuses on nine technical fields in the energy industry, including nuclear, wind, solar, biomass and water energy, as well as energy storage, oil and gas, coal and the integration of the smart grid and energy network. Research related to the policy and media communication of this Special Issue can cover the whole energy industry. Regarding the technical level, this topic mainly focuses on various types of energy storage and generation technologies such as superconducting magnetic energy storage, supercapacitor, sodium sulfur battery, lithium ion, flow battery technology, solar cell and hydrogen production. For these studies, the Special Issue would prefer the innovative work of electrochemical analyses, materials syntheses and tests, new electrode and device structure designs, theoretical predictions of electrode materials as well as new analysis and testing methods.

Dr. Mai Li
Prof. Dr. Jiale Wang
Dr. Jingyuan Wu
Dr. Zheyi Meng
Guest Editors

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• new energy
• policy research
• media communication
• electrochemical energy storage
• electrode materials design
• solar cells
• hydrogen production