Advanced Ceramic Materials for Energy Applications I
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced and Functional Ceramics and Glasses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2023) | Viewed by 2450
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Interests: nanoparticles; multiferroics; ferroelectrics
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Dear Colleagues,
In the last several years, environmental issues related to energy production and consumption and increasing energy demand have become a central point in governments’ concerns. The environmental issues directly related to energy production and consumption include air pollution, climate change, water pollution, thermal pollution, and solid waste disposal. New sustainable technologies supported by advanced materials are a necessity for renewable energy harvesting, storage, and transport. In this view, ceramic materials play an essential role in developing improved or new technologies based on the electrochemical, piezoelectric, or thermoelectric conversion of energy among others, and for insulating applications and emission control. This Special Issue aims to provide selected contributions on advances in the design, synthesis, characterization, and improved properties of advanced ceramic materials for energy-related applications.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Design strategies for advanced ceramic materials;
- Processing of ceramics for energy applications;
- Characterization methods for advanced ceramic materials;
- Ceramics for energy storage applications: solid-state batteries, capacitors, supercapacitors;
- Ceramics for energy conversion: solid oxide fuel cells, piezoelectric ceramics for energy-harvesting devices, thermoelectric ceramics for solid-state energy conversion;
- Ceramics for high-temperature heat exchangers;
- Ceramic turbine blades;
- Ceramics for emission control.
Dr. Vasile Adrian Surdu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ceramics
- energy storage
- energy harvesting
- piezoelectric
- thermoelectric
- solid oxide fuel cells
- turbine blades
- batteries
- capacitors
- supercapacitors
- synthesis
- sintering
- high temperature
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