Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Advanced Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 January 2022) | Viewed by 5592
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global warming is a major cause of concern. Consumption of fossil fuels has to be reduced in order to diminish CO2 emissions by 40% by the year 2030 as per the Paris Agreement. Therefore, alternative sources, using solar, wind, water, biofuels, etc., are constantly being explored to meet the global demands for renewable and sustainable energy. Solar cells are used to convert light into electricity using photovoltaic materials. Recently developed materials like two-dimensional MXenes are promised to become supercapacitors that store energy in their layered structures. Yttria-stabilized zirconia solid oxide fuel cells have been demonstrated to run commercial vehicles based on hydrogen fuels. The developers of the Li-ion battery, which laid the foundation for wireless electronics such as mobile phones and laptops, won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Nuclear power is another clean and sustainable source of energy. Traditionally, nuclear fission reactors have been considered dangerous to human civilization due to severe radioactive emission of high-atomic-weight solid oxide nuclear fuels, but with the advent of newer materials and technologies, it will be possible to build a sun on earth; i.e., if hydrogen atoms can be fused into helium (the reaction that happens in the Sun), it will create an enormous amount of nuclear fusion energy, enough to meet world demand. These are merely a few examples of material solutions applied to meeting world energy demand. Newer materials to meet the energy requirement for a sustainable future are continuously being searched for and developed. This Special Issue aims to address some of them.
Dr. Awadesh Kumar Mallik
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photovoltaics
- supercapacitors
- fuel cells
- batteries
- thermoelectric
- nuclear
- magneto and piezoelectronics
- materials
- ceramics
- thin films
- devices
- biofuels
- power electronics
- energy
