Nanomaterials for Sustainable Waste Conversion, Energy Production, and Environmental Applications
A special issue of Micro (ISSN 2673-8023). This special issue belongs to the section "Microscale Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 20
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Interests: materials process engineering; porous materials; material characterization; kinetics; mesoporous materials; biomass and biowaste valorization; process engineering; gels as food packaging;
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Interests: catalysis; nanomaterials and nanotechnology; ceramic; composite and porous materials; oxide glasses; hybrid materials; mesoporous and phyllomorphic materials based on silicon or carbon; clay based materials; photocatalytic materials; magnetic oxide nanoparticles and zero valence iron; activated carbon materials produced from biomass; structure and physicochemical properties of materials with vibrational spectroscopic techniques; thermal analysis; porosimetry
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Interests: carbon layered materials; porous carbons; functionalization of carbon nanostructures; design, synthesis and evaluation of nanomaterials towards the (electro) catalytic performance; activated carbon materials; nanoparticles; energy storage applications; langmuir-blodgett; electron microscopies; atomic force microscopy; graphene derivatives
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, the race for novel materials development is triggered by several modern applications such as the transition to electric vechicles, high-performance batteries, the replacement of chemical-based materials with bio-based biodegradable materials, etc. The advanced novel materials invented during the last few years have opened new research avenues for medical, energy, environmental, and several other applications. Materials for energy applications, activated carbon, and graphene, as well as active food packaging, food safety, reduced food waste, alternative food preservatives, biopolymers, medical building blocks, and even materials for space exploration and new planet habitation, could possibly originate from byproducts, biomass, and biowastes. Challenges such as the climate change effect, worldwide human hunger, the 9.5 billion global population in 2050, and natural resource limitations, have created new scientific fields for novel as well as innovative materials development. One of the dominant concepts to intensify the effort to solve crucial environmental and living problems on earth's life is the valorization of biomass and biowastes. Nanomaterials exhibiting unique physicochemical properties have emerged as a transformative class of materials. Current tests have indicated that they are highly effective in addressing global environmental and energy challenges. High surface area, tunable porosity, enhanced reactivity, and superior catalytic capacity are some of the advanced properties of these materials. Such properties indicate them as ideal candidates for sustainable waste conversion, energy production, and environmental remediation.
In waste management, energy production, and environmental applications, nanomaterials facilitate the efficient conversion of organic and inorganic waste into valuable products such as biofuels, hydrogen, value-added chemicals, advanced nanocatalysts with enhanced reaction kinetics and selectivity, next-generation energy storage and harvesting systems, etc.
Their application is extended in adsorption, photocatalysis, and membrane filtration for the degradation of organic pollutants, heavy metal removal, water purification, air quality improvement, and carbon capture, as well as in fuel cells, solar cells, batteries, and supercapacitors for improved energy efficiency, stability, and sustainability.
Their involvement in production processes leads to reduced-cost products with a neutral CO2 balance in the production line.
The integration of nanomaterials into sustainable technologies paves the way for greener solutions to global challenges. However, ensuring their safe production, application, and disposal is crucial to minimizing potential environmental and health risks. Future advancements in nanomaterial design, functionalization, and scalability will further drive their role in achieving a more sustainable and cleaner world.
Dr. Constantinos Salmas
Prof. Dr. Michalis Karakassides
Dr. Nikolaos Chalmpes
Guest Editors
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Dr. Constantinos Salmas
Prof. Dr. Michalis Karakassides
Dr. Nikolaos Chalmpes
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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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. Micro is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly 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 1000 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.
Keywords
- nanomaterials
- novel materials
- innovative materials
- biomass valorization
- biomass conversion
- waste management
- waste valorization
- waste conversion
- materials engineering
- materials science
- materials for energy
- materials for environment
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