New Insights on Environmentally Friendly Materials

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to this Special Issue on New Insights on Environmentally Friendly Materials.

The environmental significance of materials is attracting increasing attention with the rapid development of industry and the gradual depletion of natural resources. In contrast to traditional materials, environmentally friendly materials are consciously developed to improve the efficiency of resource and energy utilization and to reduce pollutants (waste solids, waste liquids, exhaust gases, etc.). The scope of environmentally friendly materials covers green energy materials, green building materials, environmental engineering materials, biologically functional materials, etc. Although many relevant achievements have been made in the field, it is significant to develop novel environmentally friendly materials with excellent performance using clean and green preparation technologies. There are still many critical scientific questions to be resolved in this regard. Therefore, this Special Issue plans to give new insights into environmentally friendly materials, including advanced technological innovations and optimized application fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Phase-change energy storage materials for secondary energy recovery;
• Utilization of industrial and municipal solid waste in building materials;
• Advanced materials for treatment of waste liquids and exhaust gases;
• Bio-based materials for environmental applications;
• Atomic-scale design of environmentally friendly materials;
• Applications of machine learning in environmentally friendly materials;
• Thermodynamics, first-principles calculations, and molecular dynamics simulations.

Dr. Ziwei Chen
Dr. Ru Ji
Dr. Hao Wang
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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.