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Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting and Storage

Guest Editors:

Muhammad Nadeem Zafar: University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Xiao Chen: Beijing Normal University, China

Submission Status: Closed   |   Submission Deadline: Closed


Functional Composite Materials is calling for submission of both research papers and review papers to “Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting and Storage” collection.

It is widely recognized that nanotechnology has emerged and has applications in a lot of research fields. Nanotechnology and nanomaterials have a vital role in energy harvesting and storage systems such as supercapacitors, water splitting, hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evaluation reaction (OER) and other systems. Functional nanomaterials have pushed the rapid development in energy storage and energy harvesting systems, which attracts more and more innovative and novel research. Therefore, this collection focuses on the fundamentals, synthesis, characterizations, and applications of nanomaterials/nanocomposites in energy harvesting and energy storage research fields.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 7.

Meet the Guest Editors

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 Xiao Chen: Beijing Normal University, China

Xiao Chen focuses on multifunctional metal organic frameworks, nanocarbon materials, aerogels, and hydrogels for energy conversion and storage applications, such as photothermal, electrothermal, thermoelectric, magnetocaloric conversion and storage. He is a youth editorial board member of Exploration and DeCarbon. He is also a guest editor of Frontiers in Energy Research and Energies. In the past five years, as the first author or corresponding author, he has published more than 40 SCI papers in Chem. Rev., Joule, Energy Environ. Sci., Matter, iScience, ACS Nano, EnergyChem, Adv. Sci., Nano Energy, Energy Storage Mater., Carbon Energy, Aggregate, Chem. Eng. J., etc. Furthermore, he has applied for 30 national invention patents and 10 authorized.

Muhammad Nadeem Zafar: University of Gujrat, Pakistan

Muhammad Nadeem Zafar’s research interests involve synthesis of metal nanomaterials such as metal oxide, binary metal oxides, binary metal oxides/sulfides, nanocomposites, doped nanomaterials, modified nanocomposites and their applications in water splitting, HER, OER, H2 production as well as catalytic degradation of pollutants. He is working as editor for Frontiers in Chemistry, Current Applied Sciences, and Environmental Protection Research. He has published around 100 publications in well reputed journals like Journal of Cleaner Production, Fuel, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Composites Part B: Engineering, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Analytical Chemistry etc.

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About the collection

Functional Composite Materials is calling for submission of both research papers and review papers to “Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting and Storage” collection.

It is widely recognized that nanotechnology has emerged and has applications in a lot of research fields. Nanotechnology and nanomaterials have a vital role in energy harvesting and storage systems such as supercapacitors, water splitting, hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evaluation reaction (OER) and other systems. Functional nanomaterials have pushed the rapid development in energy storage and energy harvesting systems, which attracts more and more innovative and novel research. Therefore, this collection focuses on the fundamentals, synthesis, characterizations, and applications of nanomaterials/nanocomposites in energy harvesting and energy storage research fields.

Possible topics include in this collection but not limited to the following topics:

  • Nanocomposites for water splitting
  • Functional nanomaterials for energy storage
  • Green nanomaterials for energy storage and energy harvesting
  • Functional nanomaterials and heterojunctions for HER and OER
  • Functional nanomaterials for supercapacitors
  • Functional nanomaterials for electrochemical H2 production
  • Magnetic nanomaterials, nanomaterials/nanocomposites for heat energy, light energy
  • Functional composites nanomaterials for photochemical H2 production