Advanced Functional Materials for Energy Harvesting and Storage Devices, Volume II
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D:Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 4508
Special Issue Editors
Interests: functional nanomaterials; flexible energy storage and conversion devices; supercapacitors; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; nanogenerators
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Interests: synthesis of 2D atomic crystals and their device applications; synthesis of metal oxides and their device physics; electrohydrodynamic lithography; atomic layer deposition
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Very recently, the fabrication of energy-harvesting, storage, and conversion systems, including nanogenerators, supercapacitors, lithium-ion batteries, solar cells, photo/electro-catalysts, etc., has received remarkable attention and, in recent years, become a hot research topic. Up to now, numerous researchers have utilized different functional materials, including two-dimensional (2D) materials, MXenes, metal oxides, metal phosphides, metal sulfides, metal–organic frameworks, etc., as the active materials for energy-harvesting, storage, and conversion systems. However, there are still many challenges to overcome, such as the low output voltage of piezoelectric nanogenerators, the poor output current density of triboelectric nanogenerators, the poor power density of supercapacitors, the poor cyclic stability of lithium-ion batteries, the low conversion efficiency of solar cells, etc. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers and review articles that focus on novel developments in energy-harvesting, storage, and conversion systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Triboelectric nanogenerators;
- Pyroelectric nanogenerators;
- Piezoelectric nanogenerators;
- Supercapacitors;
- Lithium-ion batteries;
- Solar cells.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Dr. Yongteng Qian
Prof. Dr. Dae Joon Kang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- functional materials
- energy-harvesting devices
- energy storage and conversion devices
- flexible devices
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