Novel Energy Materials

A special issue of Nanoenergy Advances (ISSN 2673-706X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 6305

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Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Amadora, Portugal
Interests: materials for energy; fuel cells; water electrolysis; CO2 reduction

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IFIMUP and Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Interests: energy harvesting; nanotechnology applicable to building envelopes; high reflective and cool materials
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Center for Automation and Technology (TEMA), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: advanced carbon nanomaterials; hydrogen storage and spintronics

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “Novel Energy Materials” in the journal Nanoenergy Advances (MDPI) invites authors to publish their state-of-the-art research results on topics including batteries, fuel cells, catalysis, carbon materials, photovoltaics, biofuels, polymer-based hydrogen storage, hydrogen production by various methods, and crystalline porous materials for hydrogen storage. Articles from the International Conference on Advanced Nano Materials (ANM2024, 24–26 July 2024, University of Aveiro, Portugal) and Alternative Energy Materials (AEM2024, 9–11 October 2024 London) will also be included in this Special Issue.

Dr. Carmen M. Rangel
Dr. Joao Ventura
Dr. Elby Titus
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Keywords

  • hydrogen storage
  • fuelcells
  • catalysis
  • carbon materials
  • photovoltaics
  • biofuels
  • polymer-based hydrogen storage
  •  hydrogen energy
  •  crystalline energy materials

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Initial Study of Reduced Graphene Oxide Foams Modified by Mn and Bi as Capacitive Electrode Materials
by Olena Okhay, Tao Yang and Alexander Tkach
Nanoenergy Adv. 2024, 4(4), 318-327; https://doi.org/10.3390/nanoenergyadv4040019 - 29 Oct 2024
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In a view of application of porous materials in wearable electronics and self-powered systems, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) foams modified by Mn or/and Bi were produced in this study to be used as electrodes for supercapacitors. The hydrothermal method and the freeze-drying processes [...] Read more.
In a view of application of porous materials in wearable electronics and self-powered systems, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) foams modified by Mn or/and Bi were produced in this study to be used as electrodes for supercapacitors. The hydrothermal method and the freeze-drying processes were used for the preparation of the materials further morphologically, elementally and structurally analyzed. Based on the electrochemical characterization, Bi-modified rGO foam was found to be more a promising material for capacitive electrodes in comparison to the other prepared materials. Full article
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Measuring Physical and Chemical Properties of Single Nanofibers for Energy Applications—Possibilities and Limits
by Tomasz Blachowicz, Nonsikelelo Sheron Mpofu and Andrea Ehrmann
Nanoenergy Adv. 2024, 4(4), 300-317; https://doi.org/10.3390/nanoenergyadv4040018 - 9 Oct 2024
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Nanofibers can be produced by various techniques, such as a broad range of electrospinning techniques to produce nanofiber mats from different polymers or polymer blends, often filled with metallic or semiconducting nanoparticles or by different nanotechnological bottom-up or top-down methods. They are important [...] Read more.
Nanofibers can be produced by various techniques, such as a broad range of electrospinning techniques to produce nanofiber mats from different polymers or polymer blends, often filled with metallic or semiconducting nanoparticles or by different nanotechnological bottom-up or top-down methods. They are important parts of a wide variety of energy applications, such as batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, or hydrogen storage materials. Usually, their physical or chemical parameters are measured by averaging over a fiber bundle or a part of a nanofiber mat. Here, we report the possibility of measuring the different physical and chemical properties of single nanofibers and nanowires. Such measurements of single nanofiber properties are more complicated than investigations of fiber bundles or whole nanofiber mats and, thus, are less often found in the literature. After a fast increase in such investigations between 2001 and 2009, the numbers of respective studies are now stagnating. This review thus aims to make the different possibilities more visible to a broader scientific audience by providing several examples based on atomic force microscopy (AFM) and other broadly available techniques. The focus of this review is on technologies that reveal more information than the pure surface morphology of nanofibers or nanowires, such as mechanical properties or wettability, porosity, or electrical conductivity. Full article
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