Transport and Energy Conversion at the Nanoscale and Molecular Scale

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in a Special Issue on “Transport and Energy Conversion at the Nanoscale and Molecular Scale”, to be published in Processes. Processes (ISSN 2227-9717; CODEN: PROCCO, Impact Factor: 3.352) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on processes in materials, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and related process/systems engineering research fields.

The rapidly growing demand for faster electronics and sustainable energy consumption has posed a significant challenge for a vast array of scientific communities, including nanoscience, physics, chemistry, and engineering. To address this challenge, tremendous attention has been paid to nano- and molecular-scale systems, as they hold promise for achieving unprecedented control and manipulation of charge transport and energy conversion. A deep mechanistic understanding of charge transport and energy conversion at the nanoscale and molecular scale, therefore, is central for the development of technologies that could have a transformative impact on a wide variety of applications, spanning from quantum computing, energy harvesting, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, to biomedical engineering and space exploration.

This Special Issue on “Transport and Energy Conversion at the Nanoscale and Molecular Scale” seeks high-quality work and topics focusing on progress in the development of new methods and mechanisms for probing and understanding charge transport and energy conversion in nano- and molecular-scale devices. The topics of interest will include, but are not limited to, nanoelectronics and molecular electronics, nanoscale thermal transport and conversion, thermoelectricity, nanoscale thermal photovoltaics, nanoplasmonics, batteries, and fuel cells.  This Special Issue will publish both original research and review articles.

The potential non-exhaustive list of topics to be covered includes:  

• Nanoscale heat transfer;
• Molecular electronics;
• Nanoelectronics;
• Nanoscale energy conversion;
• Thermoelectricity;
• Thermochemistry;
• Thermal transport;
• Nanoscale thermal photovoltaics;
• Nanoscale photothermal phenomena;
• Plasmon-driven photochemistry;

Prof. Dr. Kun Wang
Dr. Han Hu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• nanotechnology
• nanostructures
• molecules
• charge transport
• heat transfer
• energy conversion
• electrochemical