Metal Oxide Functional Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026 | Viewed by 18
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metal oxides; gas sensing; material failure; tribocatalysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Metal oxide materials exhibit a wide range of physical phenomena, such as semi-conductive, dielectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric, ferroelectric, and triboelectric effects, which can be used in many technological applications. Many metal oxide nanomaterials, such as TiO2, ZnO, ferroelectric perovskite BaTiO3, BiFeO3, and (K/Na)NbO3, have recently emerged as star materials in numerous fields, including photovoltaic solar cell devices, piezoelectric or pyroelectric energy conversion, energy harvesting and storage, and catalysis. The purpose of this Special Issue is to highlight recent advances in metal oxide nanomaterials for application in energy and environmental sciences. Examples include the synthesis and characterization of novel semi-condcutive/ferroelectric/piezoelectric/pyroelectric/dielectric metal oxide nanocrystals and their performance in terms of photocatalysis, photovoltaic devices, electro-optical control, capacitance, piezocatalysis, pyrocatalysis, tribocatalysis, energy harvesting, photoluminescence, and so on. Their utilization in energy applications like solar cells, supercapacitors, and energy harvesters, and their applications in environmental science, such as dye degradation, antibacterial uses, splitting water into hydrogen, CO2 reduction, and nitrogen fixation, etc., are also of interest.
This Special Issue covers all aspects of metal oxide nanomaterials, including theory, synthetic efforts, novel processing methods, and the developments in application of energy and environmental sciences. Reports of novel or improved applications of metal oxide nanomaterials in different areas are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Wanping Chen
Prof. Dr. Yanmin Jia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- piezocatalysis
- pyrocatalysis
- tribocatalysis
- photocatalysis
- capacitors
- nanogenerators
- flexocatalysis
- contact-electro-catalysis
- mechanocatalysis
- magneto-electro-catalysis
- ferroelectrics
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