Progress in Polymer Hybrid and Nano Composites for Energy and Environmental Applications
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Macromolecular Crystals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 September 2023) | Viewed by 5195
Special Issue Editors
Interests: co-ordination polymers; metal-organic frameworks (MoFs); covalent-organic frameworks (CoFs); conductivity; energy; electronics materials; electrochemistry; semiconductors
Interests: nanomaterials; carbon nanotubes; anti-cancer drugs; their biological interactions and porphyrin chemistry
Interests: Nanocrystals; Nanocomposites; Heterogeneous Catalysis; Surface Science; Nanomaterials Characterization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to the Special Issue “Progress in Polymer Hybrid and Nano Composites for Energy and Environmental applications”, which will be published in the journal Crystals.
Organic and co-ordination polymer nanocomposites/nanomaterials have been of considerable interest due to their relevance in energy and environmental applications. Over the last few decades, organic polymers composites/nanocomposites have emerged as an alternative to metals, woods, and ceramics due to their ease of processing, productivity, and cost reduction. Furthermore, they have garnered high demands in the aerospace, automotives, microelectronics, infrastructure and construction, medical, and chemical industries. Similarly, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent–organic frameworks (COFs) and their composites/nanocomposites have shown considerable interests in fields such as gas adsorption/separation, catalysis, sensing, energy, optoelectronic, biomedical, and environmental applications. This Special Issue will mainly focus on new strategies and approaches to develop new polymer composites/nanocomposites, including organic polymer composites and MOFs/COFs related materials; detailed studies on structural, electrical, and optical properties; and energy-related applications. We will highly appreciate the authors to include the crystal structure of the relevant material in their manuscripts because this is helpful for readers and is relevant for the journal Crystals.
This Special Issue will broadly focus on the following topics:
- Design and synthesis of the organic and coordination polymers and their composite materials;
- Applications of the polymer composites in energy and catalysis;
- Metal–organic frameworks and covalent–organic frameworks: synthesis, crystal structures, optical and electrical properties, and their applications in appropriate fields;
- Crystal structures of hybrid materials;
- Semiconducting hybrid composite/nanocomposite materials;
- Rational Design of nano-composites towards catalytic, energy, biological, and environmental applications;
- Understanding of optical/electronic properties of nano-materials and hybrid nano-composite materials using novel spectroscopic methods.
In this Special Issue, we would like to receive manuscripts on design and synthesis of polymers, MOFs, COFs composites, nanocomposites, nanomaterials, catalysts, sensors, and energy storage materials. If the articles are related to the topics mentioned above, we also encourage you to submit them in the form of reviews.
Dr. Ashok Yadav
Dr. Prashant Dubey
Dr. Kasala Prabhakar Reddy
Dr. Gurivi Reddy Yettapu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymers hybrid composites
- nanocomposites/ nanomaterials
- metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
- covalent-organic frameworks (COFs)
- novel materials
- semiconductor nanocrystals
- energy
- catalysis
- spectroscopy
- biological applications
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