Featured Papers and Reviews of Advanced Materials for Sensing, Energy Conversion and Storage
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 996
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Interests: tactile sensor; triboelectric electronic device; energy conversion
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Dear Colleagues,
Currently sustainable energy harvesting, energy storage, and smart sensors are among the hottest topics of research in electrical power engineering and environmental monitoring as they can continuously harvest energy from environment, fulfill the requirement of distributed systems, enhance power system stability, reduce the environmental influence of energy generation, enhance system integration, and also increase the coverage of renewable energy source. This Special Issue aims to present comprehensive reviews of the most popular advanced functional materials for energy harvesters such as energy harvesters that collect solar energy, mechanical energy, and thermal energy, and electrochemical energy storage devices, including various secondary batteries and supercapacitors. With attention to the above, insightful reviews on advanced materials for smart sensors are also highly appreciated in terms of current progress, challenges, limitations, contribution, and the objective of each direction. The integration between energy harvesters, storage devices and the as-based self-powered sensing systems represent the most popular types of sensors in the era of the Internet of Things. In the present Special Issue, we welcome contributions from any groups in the field with the aim of giving a balanced view of the current state of the art in this promising discipline.
Prof. Dr. Ning Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- advanced materials
- energy harvesters
- solar cell
- triboelectric nanogenerator
- themoelectric generator
- Li-ion battery
- zinc ion battery
- flexible sensor
- water splitting
- integrated system
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