Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Nanocrystals, Nanoparticles and Thin Films for Sustainable Energy
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 6463
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanofabrication; metal nanostructures; mesoscopic physics; scanning probe microscopy; plasmonics; laser-based nanofabrication
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent decades have seen the exploitation of nanotechnology potentialities in all technological fields connected to the challenges of human society. In particular, seminal breakthroughs have just been made, and, in the long-term, others are expected in the energy field. In this sense, the worlwide increasing energy demand poses a strict request concerning new sustainable approaches for energy production, conversion, and storage with a minimized environmental impact. Nanotechnology will be able to meet such a request with increasing efficiency in an environmentally and geopolitically sustainable fashion. This is due to its unique capability to provide novel functional materials and devices (by the atomic scale control of matter) that can be used to produce and storage clean, low-cost, sustainable energy.
This Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims at collecting a compilation of review articles and original research papers illustrating the latest developments in the synthesis and self-assembly of nanomaterials (such as nanocrystals, nanoparticles, and thin films) whose combined physical and chemical properties can be efficiently exploited for clean energy production, conversion, and storage. In particular, for this Special Issue, contributions dealing with synthesis and self-assembly approaches, characterization methodologies, applications of structurally and/or chemically functional-designed nanomaterials for the next generation clean energy production, storage, and use devices are welcomed. Multidisciplinary approaches crossing physical, chemical, and engineering competences are expected for the full exploitation of the nanomaterials properties at the forefront of nanotechnology.
Contributions regarding nanomaterials for sustainable energy falling within the following topics are particularly encouraged:
- Nanomaterials for solar cells, fuel cells, hydrogen production and storage, new generation batteries, supercapacitors, thermoelectric devices, and solid-state lighting systems;
- Combinations of different classes of nanomaterials in rationale-designed nanocomposites (organic-inorganic, metallo-dielectric, 0D-1D-2D hybrids, metal-organic frameworks, etc.);
- Nanocatalysis;
- Electrochemical energy production and storage;
- Green self-assebly-based nanofabrication;
- Photocatalytic, thermoelectric, photoelectrochemical, piezoelectric, piezotronic, and artificial photosynthetic nanomaterials;
- Nanostructured devices for energy-efficient buildings;
- Cutting-edge techniques for the quantitative characterization of morphological, structural, chemical, optical, electrical, magnetic, etc., properties of nanostructures (advanced spectroscopies, microscopies, etc.).
Dr. Francesco Ruffino
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- solar cells
- fuel cells
- batteries
- supercapacitors
- thermoelectricity
- catalysis
- hydrogen
- lighting
