Natural Minerals and Biomass for Environment/Energy Catalysis
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Cross-Field Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 1399
Special Issue Editor
2. Key Laboratory of Clay Mineral Applied Research of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: natural mineral; biomass; nanocomposite; photocatalysis; environmental catalysis; energy catalysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural minerals and biomass are earth-abundant materials in the world. Due to their unique properties, including high surface area, functional groups, unique microstructure and active sites, they have great potential in catalysis for CO2 reduction, N2 fixation, H2 generation, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) degradation, wastewater treatment and so forth. They can serve as support or even become involved in the reaction through reconstruction or surface modification. The introduction of minerals/biomass as support could not only significantly reduce the application cost of catalysts, but also effectively avoid the agglomeration of nano-scale catalysts in the application process, which increase the number of active sites, and improve the catalytic efficiency. Over the past years, there has been increasing interest in the development of natural minerals/biomass that can enhance the catalytic performance. However, further improvement of the efficiency of these materials is still needed to fulfil the requirements for large-scale applications.
To facilitate diverse catalytic conversion, numerous efforts have been made towards rational design and controllable construction of novel composites with unique architectures. Particularly, mineral-/biomass-based composites constructed from diverse minerals/biomass can provide opportunities of achieving intriguing properties and enhance performance, benefiting from the synergistic effects at the composite interface. In addition, the role of natural minerals/biomass in composite catalysis, especially the co-catalytic mechanism, still needs to be explored. Hence, this Special Issue aims to demonstrate the recent advancement of natural mineral/biomass materials with various structures to address the challenges in environmental and energy applications.
Prof. Dr. Xiazhang Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural mineral
- biomass material
- nanocomposite
- photocatalysis
- environmental catalysis
- energy catalysis
- CO2 reduction
- VOC degradation
- biomass conversion
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