Functional Nanostructured Electro/Photocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Environmental Treatment

A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 1306

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Dear Colleagues,

Increasingly serious environmental concerns have stimulated significant efforts to develop green and efficient energy conversion and waste treatment technologies, among which electrocatalysis has been considered as a clean and renewable one. The development of high-efficiency and durable electrocatalysts to promote electrochemical reactions is highly desirable.

With this Special Issue of Nanomaterials titled “Functional Nanostructured Electro/Photocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Environmental Treatment”, we encourage authors to share their developments in the design, characterization, and application of nanostructured electro/photocatalysts for various electro/photocatalytic reactions, including but not limited to biomass upgrading and the reactions of hydrogen evolution, oxygen evolution, CO2 reduction, N2 reduction/oxidation, NO3/NO2/NO reduction, chlorine evolution, and O2 reduction, mainly focusing on the production of renewable energy and valuable chemicals and wastewater treatment.

Dr. Yi Huang
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Keywords

  • nanostructured catalysts
  • electrocatalysis
  • photocatalysis
  • reduction reactions
  • oxidation reactions
  • biomass upgrading
  • renewable energy
  • valuable chemicals
  • wastewater treatment.

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Highly Efficient Peroxymonosulfate Electroactivation on Co(OH)2 Nanoarray Electrode for Pefloxacin Degradation
by Tonghui Bao, Hui Ke, Wanjiang Li, Linke Cai and Yi Huang
Nanomaterials 2024, 14(15), 1312; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14151312 - 4 Aug 2024
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The activation of PMS to produce active species is an attractive technique for antibiotic degradation but is restricted to the low reaction kinetics and high costs. In this work, a cobalt-based catalyst was prepared by in situ electrodeposition to enhance the electrically activated [...] Read more.
The activation of PMS to produce active species is an attractive technique for antibiotic degradation but is restricted to the low reaction kinetics and high costs. In this work, a cobalt-based catalyst was prepared by in situ electrodeposition to enhance the electrically activated PMS process for the degradation of antibiotics. Almost 100% of pefloxacin (PFX) was removed within 10 min by employing Co(OH)2 as the catalyst in the electrically activated peroxymonosulfate (PMS) process, and the reaction kinetic constant reached 0.52 min−1. The redox processes of Co2+ and Co3+ in Co(OH)2 catalysts were considered to be the main pathways for PMS activation, in which 1O2 was the main active species. Furthermore, this strategy could also achieve excellent degradation efficiency for other organic pollutants. This study provides an effective and low-cost strategy with no secondary pollution for pollutant degradation. Full article
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