Molecular Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 15255
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrochemical batteries: photoelectrochemical cells; computational spectroscopy; potential energy surfaces; machine learning; ab initio modeling; large scale density functional methods
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2. KU-KIST Green School Graduate School of Energy and Environment, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Interests: carbon nanotube; fullerene; graphene; carbon electrodes; perovskite solar cells; organic solar cells; silicon solar cells; flexible devices; stretchable devices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging energy conversion and storage technologies use molecular materials to achieve a high level of performance, for example, electron/hole transport materials in perovskite-based solar cells (PSC), hosts or emitters in light emitting diodes (LED), or active electrode materials in lithium and sodium ion batteries. It is not a stretch to say that progress in molecular material development is a key determinant in the eventual success of these technologies.
The development, characterization, and computational modelling of molecular materials for these diverse applications often rely on similar methods, tools, and ideas for rational design of characteristics such as redox potential, charge transport properties, and optical properties. Recent developments have also demonstrated that molecular materials can be versatile in that the same molecule or molecular design can be successfully used in several of these technologies.
This Special Issue aims to bring together work on molecular design by experimental and computational means for application in energy conversion and storage to highlight common design themes among the technologies and to facilitate the cross-fertilization of ideas needed for the development of high performance molecular materials.
Dr. Sergei Manzhos
Prof. Il Jeon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- perovskite solar cells
- organic solar cells
- light emitting diodes
- electron transport materials
- hole transport materials
- organic batteries
- redox flow batteries
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