Catalytic Energy Storage and Water Splitting

Dear Colleagues,

Cost-effective and high-performance materials for energy applications are key to achieving the goals of current research toward commercialization. The materials for such applications are either costly or their performance is unsatisfactory. Materials must be developed using a facile method for energy storage and production. This Special Issue focuses on cutting-edge research on energy, and particularly on electrochemical energy storage and generation such as batteries, supercapacitors, electrocatalysts, and fuel cells.

The aim of this Special Issue is to cover promising, recent, and novel research trends in the synthesis of functional materials with unique nano and microstructure structures to solve key issues in electrochemical energy storage and water splitting. Submissions to this Special Issue may cover themes including, but not limited, to:

• The precise design, synthesis, and characterization of novel low-cost electrocatalysis
• Fabrication of functional materials derived from MOFs; LDHs, such as nanostructured metal oxides, chalcogenides, nitrides, carbides, and phosphides and their nanocomposites; porous carbon frameworks; and/or single-atom electrocatalysts
• Exploration of advanced core-shell, MOFs, polymers, and metal oxides/chalcogenides/nitrides/carbides/phosphides nanostructures for energy storage systems, such as supercapacitors, rechargeable Li⁺/Na⁺/K⁺/Mg²⁺/Zn²⁺ ion batteries, Li–S batteries, and metal–air batteries and electrocatalysis, such as hydrogen reduction/evolution reactions, oxygen reduction/evolution reactions, and overall water splitting.

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• Nanomaterials for catalytic activities
• Materials for energy storage applications
• Electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reactions
• Materials for oxygen evolution reactions
• 2D materials for energy applications
• Chalcogenides for energy storage and generation
• Polymeric materials and their composites for energy applications
• Metal-ion batteries and supercapacitors