Journal of Nanomaterials

Development and Fabrication of Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment Applications


Publishing date
03 May 2013
Status
Published
Submission deadline
14 Dec 2012

Lead Editor

1Institute of Biomass Chemistry and Technology, College of Materials Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, 35 Tsinghua East Road, Beijing 100083, China

2Department of Chemistry, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala 75121, Sweden

3College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China


Development and Fabrication of Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment Applications

Description

The increasing environmental problems and deficiencies of sustainable energy sources have become serious issues that are urgently in need of being addressed. With the backdrop of limiting supplies of fossil fuels and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and associated global climate change, there is an urgency to construct energy-converting systems which can move more in the direction of sustainability of nonpolluting energy generation.

The performance of materials depends critically on their microstructures, which requires the development of materials processing techniques to obtain the desired microstructures and morphologies. It is of great importance in future technological applications to understand how the materials behave at nanoscales during working and how controllably manufacture. No matter physical or chemical preparation, forward-looking theoretical guidance and characterization proof are necessary for explaining the formation mechanism so as to design devices with expected properties for nonpolluting energy generation and environmental protection. The aim of this issue is to discuss the nanotechnology for fabrication of advanced nanoscales materials and the recent development of nanostructural analysis techniques for their energy and environmental applications.

Those original and review articles are welcomed, in which researchers expend massive efforts on how to explore more and more excellent energy-converting systems and try to develop and fabricate advanced materials with new ideas and methods to deal with the environmental problems. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Materials for hydrogen generation and storage
  • Materials for CO2 capture and reduction; Solar cells
  • Batteries and supercapacitors
  • III-V semiconductors and energy applications
  • Organic semiconductors and energy applications
  • Quantum dots
  • Materials for environmental protection
  • Theoretical calculation and simulation on nanomaterials for energy-converting systems
  • New physical and chemical formation nanotechnologies and nanostructural characterization techniques

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Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 279309
  • - Editorial

Development and Fabrication of Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment Applications

Wen Zeng | Ming-Guo Ma | ... | Shao-Wen Cao
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 191728
  • - Research Article

HER Catalytic Activity of Electrodeposited Ni-P Nanowires under the Influence of Magnetic Field

Hung-Bin Lee | Jiun-Chen Tsau | Chun-Ying Lee
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 197276
  • - Research Article

The Development of Photocatalyst with Hybrid Material CNT/TiO2 Thin Films for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

Yong Woo Kim | Sang Hee Park
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 367510
  • - Research Article

Preparation of Smooth Surface TiO2 Photoanode for High Energy Conversion Efficiency in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Sasipriya Kathirvel | Huei-Siou Chen | ... | Wen-Ren Li
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 640146
  • - Research Article

Synthesis of Octahedral-Shaped NiO and Approaches to an Anode Material of Manufactured Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Using the Decalcomania Method

Haeran Cho | Huryul Lee | ... | Misook Kang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 423632
  • - Research Article

Effect of Solution Spray Rate on the Properties of Chemically Sprayed ZnO:In Thin Films

Merike Kriisa | Malle Krunks | ... | Arvo Mere
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 452854
  • - Research Article

Preparation of Baking-Free Brick from Manganese Residue and Its Mechanical Properties

Ping Wang | Dong-yan Liu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 606940
  • - Research Article

Characterization of Nanoporous Ceramic Granules Made with Coal Fly Ash and Their Utilization in Phenol Removal from Water

Zhaoqian Jing
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 293464
  • - Research Article

Fabrication and Characterization of Manganese Ferrite Nanospheres as a Magnetic Adsorbent of Chromium

Li-Xia Yang | Feng Wang | ... | Zi-Qi Liu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 127345
  • - Research Article

Pd-Doped SnO2-Based Sensor Detecting Characteristic Fault Hydrocarbon Gases in Transformer Oil

Weigen Chen | Qu Zhou | ... | Fu Wan
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