Oxide Materials for Energy Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 270
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The sustainable development of mankind requires the improvement and use of clean energy sources. Tremendous efforts have been devoted to researching effective energy conversion or storage technologies, such as ion batteries, solar cells, fuel cells, photocatalysis, or photoelectrochemical water splitting. Oxide materials, especially transition metal oxides, have an indispensable role in these fields. While marked progresses have been achieved, research on the efficiency, stability, and safety of oxide materials, as well as the fundamental mechanisms behind them, is still lacking. Therefore, this Special Issue of Materials aims to provide a collection of papers on research on oxide materials for various energy applications, which include, but are not limited to:
- The application of oxide materials on ion batteries, solar cells, fuel cells, and catalysis;
- The strategies to promote the efficiency of energy conversion or storage for oxide materials;
- Characterization technologies, especially operando technologies, to resolve the fundamental mechanisms concerning the efficiency, stability, safety, etc.;
- Calculations for oxide materials to understand various issues on energy conversion.
Dr. Zhengping Fu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- oxide materials
- ion batteries
- solar cells
- fuel cells
- catalysis
- characterization technologies
- calculations
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