Sustainable Materials for Renewable Energy Applications
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 3879
Special Issue Editor
2 CENIMAT|i3N, FCT-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Almada, 2829-516, Portugal
Interests: conjugated polymers; multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials; energy harvesters; sensors; wearables and paper-based electronics; cellulose-based smart applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable materials as a source for renewable energy applications can bring about a huge advancement in sustainable development, which is the utmost priority and a matter of deep concern for current civilizations. Although there have been rapid developments observed in the sector of renewable energy sources and related applications in the past few decades, there is still a lot more to do to generate a greener world for the future generations to come. Instead of just organizing debates and political agendas, this is really high time for innovating ideas to create new technologies and advanced materials in order to further explore sustainability and develop a circular economy, while at the same time fighting against climate change and environmental issues related to energy resources and applications. Sustainable materials, e.g., biomass and wastes, and biocompatible organic/inorganic/polymeric/hybrid systems, are among many others which are being heavily researched and utilized for renewable energy applications. Innovative systems, both for energy storage and harvesting from sustainable materials, could help us in saving and simultaneously managing enormous energy demands and power quality issues in a transversal way, while their technical developments could still face some challenges regarding transmission, distribution, production, and efficiency. Given the above, there is enough scope and promise to grow green economies and future markets by using sustainable materials for renewable energy applications such as solar cells, fuel cells, bio/green batteries, supercapacitors, different types of energy harvesters, and so on.
In the present context, this Special Issue welcomes papers that contribute to a better understanding of “Sustainable Materials for Renewable Energy Applications”. We expect theoretical and empirical contributions as well as general reviews. Multi/interdisciplinary approaches will be particularly appreciated. The goal is to bring together different viewpoints from different disciplines of the global research community, in order to present and network the latest innovations and developments related to the above topic and also open up the market and future opportunities of this field with sustainable materials.
Covered topics include (but are not limited to):
- Sustainable materials for renewable energy applications;
- Sustainable materials marketing strategies;
- Renewable energy adaptation to technology and sustainability;
- Energy storage and harvesting;
- Energy conversion to efficiency;
- Technological innovations related to energy storage and conversion;
- Techno-socio-economic aspects of sustainable materials towards energy applications;
- Energy modelling and life cycle assessment of new sustainable materials;
- Sustainable materials for sustainable developments and the circular economy.
Dr. Sumita Goswami
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable materials
- renewable energy
- energy storage
- energy harvesting
- energy use efficiency
- energy conversion
- sustainable developments
- circular economy
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