Advanced Carbonaceous Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D: Energy Storage and Application".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2025) | Viewed by 997
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrolysis; CO2 reduction; nanomaterials; polymerization
Interests: carbon materials; electrocatalysis; in situ characterizations; water electrolysis; X-ray absorption spectroscopy
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Interests: nanocomposites; electrocatalytic oxygen or hydrogen evolution; efficient ORR catalyst; fuel cells; electrocatalytic mechanism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To satisfy increasing energy demands in a low-carbon economy, the development of new materials that improve the efficiency of energy conversion and storage systems is critical to future energy transition. Carbonaceous materials provide tremendous opportunities in energy conversion and storage applications owing to their exceptional electrical conductivity, outstanding physicochemical stability, and tunable surface architectures. Over the past three decades or so, considerable efforts have been made to exploit the unique properties of carbon nanomaterials such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene to use them as energy materials, with tremendous progress in the development of high-performance energy conversion (e.g., solar cells and fuel cells) and storage (e.g., supercapacitors and batteries) devices, from their synthesis to their practical applications. This Special Issue aims to gather articles that provide an overview of the most recent advancements in various carbon materials toward energy conversion and storage in diverse areas, including but not limited to solar and fuel cells, batteries, and electrocatalytic applications.
Dr. Yong Zhao
Dr. Bin Wu
Prof. Dr. Xiulin Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon materials
- energy conversion
- energy storage synthesis applications
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