Recent Trends in Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Approaches
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metallic Functional Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 428
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electrochemistry; electrocatalysis; synthetic metals; metal–plymer composites
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the substantial development of technology and improvement in human life style has resulted in an extraordinary demand for energy. Due to high energy consumption and modern lifestyles, emissions of various types of pollution have also increased. In this context, photocatalysis and electrocatalysis are processes that can help not only in the generation of energy and the production of various materials, but can also cope with the degradation processes of harmful pollutants. In electrocatalysis and photocatalysis, the electrode or a special material determines the efficiency of a composed system. A wide range of literature is available on the utilization of metal or metal oxides, in pure or hybrid composite form, for enhanced photo- or electrocatalysis. Another group of materials, termed ’synthetic metals’, are also a sophisticated addition to the field. Synthetic metals are actually conjugated polymers that behave as metals when properly doped. Their hybrids with pure metals lead to a class of promising materials that are used in photocatalysis and electrocatalysis. This Special Issue aims to emphasize recent trends and approaches being practiced in the field and will cover research on the utilization of metals (in any form) such as alloys, base metals including iron, nickel, lead, zinc, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, noble metals including platinum, gold, silver and rhodium, transition metals, semi-metals, synthetic metals, biometals and so on, for photocatlysis and electrocatalysis.
Dr. Salma Bilal
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal, metal oxides, hybrid composites of metal oxides
- energy storage
- energy conversion
- fuel cells
- water splitting
- solar cells
- photodegradation/photocatalysis
- sensors
- biosensors
- CO2 reduction
