Advanced Energy Materials: Fundamentals, Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 2728
Special Issue Editor
Interests: batteries; super capacitors; solar photovoltaics (PV); solar PV/Battery systems; renewable energy sources; fuel cells; nanomaterials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental and climate change concerns over the use of fossil fuels and their resource constraints, combined with the ever-increasing world population and energy security fears, have incited an increasing pressure and sense of urgency toward the development of more holistic strategies, including sustainable energy production from renewable energy sources (solar power, wind, etc.), deploying electrified means of transportation, and improved energy delivery systems. However, the large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources (due to their intermittent nature) and electromobility sector (electric vehicles, XEVs) demands advanced electrochemical energy storage devices such as batteries, super capacitors, the hybrids thereof, and other technologies. Owing to their importance, both green/renewable energy sources and electrical storage devices have attracted a large amount of attention from academia, industry, and policy/decision makers, as well as rapidly growing funds and research outputs such as publications, patents, policy briefs, and so on. In this Special Issue, we invite original (full) research articles, reviews, and perspectives on the topics mentioned below. In the case of reviews and perspectives, instead of simply chronicling who did what and when, authors should critically examine and discuss existing research status/landscape, and also put prospects and insights into future research directions, recommend holistic solutions, guidelines for further materials and technology-related development and so forth. Instead of summary-style articles, we anticipate authors to make use of literature knowledge to propose new conclusions, and unanswered questions as forward guidance to the field of energy storage and conversion devices.
List of potential topics to be covered include (but are not limited to):
- Rechargeable batteries based on Li, Na, K, Ca, Mg, Al cations, and other systems;
- Super capacitors, battery/super capacitor hybrid devices;
- Organic and inorganic photovoltaics: dye-sensitized solar cells, organic solar cells, perovskite solar cells, silicon heterojunction solar cells, etc.;
- Integrated solar PV/Battery, solar PV/super capacitor, solar PV/battery–super capacitor systems;
- Renewable energy sources (solar, wind);
- Battery technology and off-grid energy generation/sources;
- Interphases and interfaces in electrochemical devices.
Dr. Gebrekidan Gebresilassie Eshetu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Energy storage devices
- Energy conversion devices
- Batteries
- Super capacitors
- Solar Photovoltaics
- Renewable energy sources
- Off-grid energy
- Nanomaterials
- Interphases/interfaces
