Recent Innovations in Nanostructured Coatings for Sustainable Energy Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue will incorporate a wide range of research areas, with a particular focus on advanced materials, coatings, and thin films optimized for sustainable energy technologies. We invite researchers to submit their work, highlighting new advanced coating materials including thin films, quantum dots, and surface coatings designed to increase performance in a variety of systems. The thematic content includes self-healing coatings, anti-corrosion, thermal coatings, and graphene coatings, focusing on their applications in important energy-related devices such as lithium-ion batteries, solar cells, and thermoelectric devices.

In this context, a significant part of the Special Issue will examine in detail the complexity of molecular structures and intermolecular interactions in these advanced materials. In addition to understanding and exploiting these interactions which are the most important to enhance the performance of coatings and thin materials. We encourage contributions from theoretical studies, molecular modeling, and experimental research works. For instance, we would like to consider all aspects of thin electrode coatings for batteries and electrochemical cells, the effect of coatings on charge/discharge rates, ion diffusion kinetics, etc. that would contribute to enhancing battery performance. We would like to encourage submitting experimental research work focused on spectroscopic techniques that describe the dynamic aspects including investigation of vibrational modes, electronic excitations, and other spectroscopic features. Studies of intermolecular interactions will be a great contribution, particularly those exploring the effect of asymmetry on potential catalytic performance, etc.  Researchers are encouraged to submit their work on the effect of molecular asymmetry on reactivity, selectivity, and overall catalytic efficiency.

In addition, contributions investigating the environmental impact of nanostructured coatings and their integration into smart grid technologies are encouraged. These investigations will contribute to the essential knowledge of the field and lead to the development of more advanced materials.

Dr. Oleg Starovoytov
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• sustainable energy
• nanostructured materials
• self-healing coatings
• anti-corrosion coatings
• thermal coatings
• graphene coatings
• molecular structure
• intermolecular interactions
• charge transfer