Functional Nanomaterials for Catalysis, Energy Storage and Sensing Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 139
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Interests: nanomaterials; electrocatalysts and photocatalysts; energy conversion; remediation and sustainability
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Dear Colleagues,
Functional nanomaterials have emerged as a promising research area with numerous applications in catalysis, energy storage, and sensing. These materials possess tailored properties that make them highly efficient in specific tasks, offering significant advantages over traditional materials.
Catalysis: Functional nanomaterials have played a pivotal role in revolutionizing catalysis due to their high surface area, tunable chemical composition, and unique catalytic properties. By manipulating the size, shape, and composition of nanoparticles, researchers can fine-tune their catalytic activity and selectivity, making them highly efficient in transforming raw materials into valuable products.
Energy Storage: As the demand for efficient and sustainable energy storage solutions expands, nanomaterials have emerged as key candidates for addressing these challenges. Nanomaterials offer several advantages, such as a high surface area, shortened diffusion path, and enhanced charge transfer, which improve the energy storage capacity and cycling performance of batteries and supercapacitors. Nanoparticles, nanowires, and nanostructured materials can be engineered in order to optimize the energy storage capacity, charge–discharge rates, and overall stability of the energy storage devices. These advancements have the potential to revolutionize renewable energy systems, electric vehicles, and portable electronic devices.
Sensing Applications: Nanomaterials have unlocked exciting possibilities in the field of sensing and detection. Functional nanomaterials can act as sensors by responding to changes in their environment, such as the temperature, pressure, humidity, or the presence of specific molecules. The high surface-to-volume ratio of nanomaterials enables efficient interaction with analytes, leading to highly sensitive and selective detection systems.
These functional nanomaterials continue to drive research and development in multiple industries, promise further groundbreaking applications in the future, are shaping the landscape of multiple industries, and are enhancing the quality of life of people worldwide.
In this Special Issue, we broadly focus on the fields of catalyst, energy storage, and sensing applications employing functional nanomaterials. We kindly invite authors to contribute original research articles, short communications, and review articles.
Dr. Imgon Hwang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional nanomaterials and composites
- catalysts
- energy storage
- sensing
- environmental applications of nanomaterials
- applied nanotechnology
- analytic characteristics
