Advances in Nanostructured Catalysts for Energy and Environmental Applications

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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• 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