Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting and Environmental Sensing Application
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 78
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Interests: colloid/interface phenomenon; nanomaterials; biosensors; energy harvesting
Interests: secondary batteries; fuel cells; electrode materials; smart binder; electrolytes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, concerns about sustainable energy and the environment have become focal points worldwide due to the depletion of fossil fuels and global warming. One of the possible solutions for sustainable energy problems is energy harvesting, which obtains electrical energy transformed from light, mechanical agitation, and heat. For the last decades, the first technologies, i.e., solar cells to scavenge energy from light have been intensively studied and brought a huge advancement. However, there is still much room for further development for other technologies, which are called nanogenerators (NGs), to obtain electrical energy from mechanical and heat energy. Rapid and reliable environmental problem detection is required to keep the environment sustainable, which can be achieved via next-generation sensors offering on-site monitoring, real-time and visually interpretable data, simplification of detection and analysis procedures, and easy accessibility to non-specialists, etc.
For the last decades, nanomaterials have attracted much attention due to their unique and tunable properties, markedly different from their bulk counterparts, such as superior electronic, optical, magnetic, and chemical reactivity. These properties are especially beneficial for enhancing the performance of many devices. In particular, nanomaterials have been integrated into the energy-harvesting devices and the environmental sensors to help the devices and sensors do better jobs with higher performance.
This Special Issue focuses on developing and implementing energy harvesters and/or sensors incorporated with nanomaterials to improve performance, sensitivity, and accessibility, and thus it welcomes any full papers, reviews, and communications that would advance knowledge regarding any of the following areas:
- Fabrication, and implementation of nanomaterial-based energy harvesters
- Novel approaches to hybridized and/or multi-modal energy harvesters
- Energy harvesters for wearable and/or implantable devices
- Energy harvesters with enhanced performance due to application of nanomaterials
- New approaches to fabricate or implement nanomaterials-based environmental sensors
- Portable and/or wearable environmental sensors
- Novel approaches to multi-modal and/or multi-analyte sensing
- Environmental sensors with enhanced sensitivity due to application of nanomaterials
Prof. Dr. Sangkwon Park
Prof. Dr. Il Tae Kim
Guest Editors
Dr. Tan Nhiem Ly
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- nanomaterial-based nanogenerators (NGs)
- piezoelectric and/or triboelectric nanogenerators (PENGs/TENGs)
- pyroelectric nanogenerators (PyNGs)
- hybridized nanogenerators
- new nanomaterials for improved performance
- enhanced power generation
- nanomaterial-based environmental sensing
- on-site detection
- real-time detection
- user-friendly sensors
- sensors for wearable and/or implantable devices
- smartphone-based or artificial intelligence-combined sensors
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