Innovations in Energy Engineering and Cleaner Production: A Sustainable Chemistry Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

Chemists have a huge responsibility in the transition toward sustainable development that balances the environment, society, and economy. New strategies for the production of materials and renewable energy need to be found that have environmental protection and remediation at their core. This is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, and it is clear that impactful results can only be reached through collaboration between scientific, engineering, and non-scientific disciplines, with each discipline contributing its own point of view.

This Special Issue is focused on sustainable chemistry innovations in energy engineering and cleaner material production. We welcome contributions from scholars who want to share their results on the chemical aspects of sustainable material production and energy engineering. Thus, “materials for sustainable energy” is the main topic, although this Special Issue is more broadly focused on the production of clean materials. Energy efficiency of production is also a topic as well as other important issues, such as reducing environmental impacts and facilitating easier end-of-life recycling. The goal of this Special Issue is to showcase and help define the wide variety of contributions that sustainable chemistry can make to energy engineering and clean material production. This includes not only small-scale lab research work but also scale-up and technology transfer and embedding in industry.

Dr. Francesca Deganello
Prof. Dr. Jan-Willem Bos 
Guest Editors

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