Towards Affordable Catalysis in Energy and Environmental Science
A special issue of Inorganics (ISSN 2304-6740). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Solid-State Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 654
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass valorization; heterogeneous catalysis; hydrogen generation; environment catalysis
Interests: catalysis; metal oxides; spectroscopy; density functional theory
Interests: single-atom catalysts; CO2 conversion; CH4 partial oxidation; emission control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The resolution of global environmental issues demands the advancement of energy and environmental sciences. Catalysis has a transformative impact on such fields, playing crucial roles in pollution abatement and industrial carbon-footprint reduction. Progress in the development of catalytic process necessitates not only the scaling and deployment of technologies for their end use, but the advancement in understanding of fundamental science of the catalysts and the extension of that knowledge to materials that exhibit enhanced catalytic performance. From a practical point of view, such developed processes must offer cost-effective solutions. In this context, research interests on catalysts of Earth-abundant elements as replacements for noble metals continue to accelerate; however, such a replacement must also accompany facile catalyst synthetic protocols that enable mass production, as well as alternative chemical reaction pathways that employ cheap feedstocks. Extensive efforts are underway to develop such affordable catalytic systems with the aim of expanding the current knowledge in this area. Given the gravity of this topical area, we are pleased to invite the contribution of original research, communications, review articles, and perspectives to the Special Issue, “Towards Affordable Catalysis in Energy and Environmental Science”.
Prof. Dr. Jianghao Zhang
Dr. Nicholas R. Jaegers
Prof. Dr. Pengfei Xie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- catalysis
- Earth-abundant metals
- cost reduction
- facile synthesis
- energy conversion, storage, and harvest
- environmental science
