Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion, Storage and Environmental Applications
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2019) | Viewed by 296
Special Issue Editor
Interests: solar to chemical energy conversion; solar hydrogen production; photoreduction of waste plastic to fuel; energy storage; photocatalysis; energy-efficient buildings; wastewater treatment; DSSCS
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are kindly invited to submit your research work to this Special Issue, which is intended to collect a series of papers on the thematic issue of “Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion, Storage and Environmental Applications”. Achieving clean energy and a sustainable environment are grand challenges that the world is facing and nanostructured materials, such as nanowires, nanorods and quantum dot structures have played a key role in addressing these challenges. Nanomaterials have provided a new direction and contributed to the growth of the world economy. Nanostructure and nano-architecture-based properties such as surface to volume ratios, favourable transport properties, altered physical properties and confinement effects have been extensively studied for solar energy conversion, storage and environment applications.
The continuous discovery of efficient and novel advanced materials is crucial for the development of a sustainable society and economy. The discovery of new materials is the backbone of recent technological breakthroughs; however, today's global challenges of a sustainable environment and clean energy production and storage require the discovery of new classes of energy materials. This Special Issue will highlight recent advances in sustainable design, development and fabrication of nanostructured materials for efficient energy conversion, storage and environmental applications. Therefore, we invite scientists to contribute review and original papers describing recent findings in the field of nanostructured materials, including texture-controlled synthesis and its effect on performance.
The topics will cover, but are not limited to the following:
- Sustainable synthesis/fabrication of nanoparticles
- Sustainable methods for thin-film deposition
- Stabilization and functionalization of nanomaterials
- Energy conversion applications
- Photovoltaic
- Solar fuel (water Splitting, CO2 Photoreduction)
- DSSCs
- Thin-film solar cells
- Fuel cells
- Thermoelectric
- Energy Storage
- Electrochemical storage
- Batteries
- Thermal storage
- H2 storage
- Environmental application
Dr. Asif Ali Tahir
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nanomaterials fabrication
- Photovoltaic
- DSSCs
- Materials for H2 production
- Nanomaterials for energy storage
- Environment remediation
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