Nanostructured Carbon Materials for Electrode Design
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2022) | Viewed by 487
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanomaterials; heteroatom-doped carbon; supercapacitors; metal–air batteries; oxygen reduction reaction (ORR); hybrid catalysts; water splitting; green hydrogen; oxygen evolution reaction (OER); hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)
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2. Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Wilenska 4, 87-100 Torun, Poland
Interests: nanomaterials; 3D nano-scale structuration of graphene flakes by physical and chemical methods; carbon molecular sieves; N-rich nano-porous carbon matrixes; thermal direct conversion of polymers to multi-walled carbon nanotubes; porous carbon–based materials for applications in supercapacitors; metal–air batteries; solar cells; biological sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy generation and storage belong to the mainstream of contemporary research. Among all probable solutions, electrochemical energy generators and accumulators play a crucial role among already-existing solutions, as well as in the case of emerging concepts. Plenty of electrochemical cells and batteries incorporate electrodes made of diversified carbon-based materials, such as activated carbons, graphite/graphene, carbon nanotubes. The interest in such materials results from outstanding features, such as high electrical conductivity, the tailoring of structural properties (pore structure and surface area), the insertion of heteroatoms and a heteroatom domain, considerably high chemical stability, the relative ease of manufacturing, wide accessibility, and reasonable and acceptable cost.
Each year, thousands of papers and patents focused on carbon electrode manufacturing and their assembly into electrochemical devices are published. The current Special Issues of Processes, a journal ranked by Scopus and other databases, is aiming to contribute to the worldwide emerging scientific trend in electrochemical research. The Special Issue is devoted to high-quality and original research papers on carbon-based electrode processing (synthesis, manufacturing, heteroatom enrichment, structuring, and multidirectional characterization). Any investigations into the following properties of carbon electrode materials are welcome: chemical composition, specific surface area, pore size distribution, electric conductivity, the chemistry of the surface, the performance of standard electrochemical electrode reactions (ORR and water splitting potential), etc. The relation between carbon electrode properties and the performance of standard electrochemical devices (primary and secondary electrochemical cells, rechargeable and non-rechargeable air–metal batteries, symmetric and asymmetric supercapacitors, fuel cells, water splitting systems, etc.) is of great interest as a bridge between academia and real life. This Special Issue welcomes reviews in analogous areas as the key factor in the structuring and consolidation of the knowledge on nanostructured carbon electrodes. Industry-originated and industry-devoted papers dealing with the features of market-available materials and devices are particularly invited.
Dr. Anna Ilnicka
Prof. Dr. Jerzy P. Lukaszewicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon-based materials
- activated carbon
- graphene
- graphite
- electrodes
- nanostructure
- porosity
- air–metal batteries
- supercapacitors
- fuel cells
- flow cells
- heteroatom enrichment
- oxygen reduction reaction
- water splitting
