New Advances in Chemical Energy Conversion and Storage
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D: Energy Storage and Application".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 May 2025 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transmission electron microscopy; ferroelectric oxides; energy catalysis; structure–property relationship
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Interests: piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials and devices; structure–property relations in solid-state functional materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the ever-increasing energy consumption, intensive attention has been paid to make efficient use of various energy sources, such as wind, geothermal, biomass, and hydropower, and to produce clean and renewable energies such as hydrogen and chemical fuels via photocatalytic water splitting, solar cells, etc. For the natural energy sources, most of them are intermittent and thus are difficult to be harnessed and stored for practical use. Therefore, functional materials that can realize such energy harvesting, storage, and conversion are key components for modern electric/electronic systems/devices applications. Nowadays, these functional materials suffer from several common drawbacks, e.g., low efficiency, low reliability, and high cost, which hinder the potentially practical application in devices. In this context, we launch this Special Issue, aiming to pole the efforts together to push advancement in this direction. Specifically, the collection includes articles, letters, reviews, progress, and perspectives about the fabrication process, the high performance, the fundamental mechanisms, the novel structural and engineering strategies, and the relationship between the structures and macroscopic properties of advanced materials used for energy harvesting, storage, and conversion. The state-of-the-art energy materials include dielectric materials for energy storage, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics, photocatalysis, photovoltaics, fuel cells, batteries, and supercapacitors. Other energy-related functional materials are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Xian-Kui Wei
Dr. Zenghui Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy harvesting
- storage and conversion
- structure–property relationship
- microstructure and fundamental mechanism.
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