Advances in Nanostructured Catalysts for Energy and Environmental Applications
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 1810
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synthesis, crystal facet engineering, assembly, and characterization of semiconductor nanomaterials for energy harvesting and storage applications; synthesis of the nanostructured metal electrodes by an electrochemical method and studying new applications; electrochemical, photochemical, photoelectrochemical water splitting, and CO2 reduction
Interests: nanostructured materials for electrochemical applications, for example, water splitting and anti-corrosion; design and preparation of novel photocatalytic materials; fracture sensitivity of materials induced by hydrogen embrittlement in the environment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The issue of energy shortage and environmental crisis is becoming increasingly serious due to the economy's and society's rapid expansion. Developing green and renewable technologies for environmental remediation and energy production is critical to solving these problems. Nanostructured catalysts have attracted worldwide attention for water splitting, CO2 reduction, N2 reduction, and degradation of organic pollutants via photochemical, electrochemical, and photoelectrochemical strategies. The catalytic reactivity of catalysts is critically affected by their electronic and surface atomic structures, which depend strongly on their nanostructure. Therefore, the regulation of the structure of the catalysts is one of the best ways to modulate the catalytic properties. This Special Issue, “Advances in Nanostructured Catalysts for Energy and Environmental Applications” aims to promote advances in synthetic strategies of nanostructured catalysts, crystal facet engineering, heterostructure, band gap engineering, morphology tailoring, plasmonic coupling, co-catalyst loading, and other aspects for energy and environmental applications, such as photo-/electro-/photoelectro-chemical water splitting for hydrogen and oxygen, reduction of CO2 and N2 into value-added chemicals, photodegradation of organic pollutants, anti-corrosion, etc. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. We look forward to receiving your contributions and believe that we may open up new creative viewpoints and advance interdisciplinary cooperation in these research areas.
Dr. Jin You Zheng
Dr. Songjie Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanostructured catalysts
- crystal facet engineering
- surface modification
- heterostructure
- band gap engineering
- electrocatalytic water splitting
- photocatalytic water splitting
- photoelectrochemical water splitting
- photodegradation
- anti-corrosion
- CO2 reduction
- N2 reduction
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