A Special Issue on Advanced Materials for Energy and Environmental Remediation

摘要

Materials play a very significant role in building technologies that are capable of offering viable solutions to our energy challenges for the future and environmental remediation. The new ways to synthesize, modify the properties, and fabricate devices using novel materials are being explored worldwide to achieve renewable energy conversion and storage. Further, the development of materials for sustainable fuel production and energy saving can help to make the renewable energy technology more efficient. Recent research and developments on materials focused on detailed understanding of material properties and to achieve the same through simple, economically viable and eco-friendly processes. The advancement in materials science and characterization techniques were much beneficial to develop several braches such as functional materials, nanomaterials, bio-materials etc. The method of synthesis and modification techniques played key role to fine tune the crystal structure, crystalline phase, morphology, chemical composition, particle size which determine materials properties with high precision. Globally, a wide range of functional materialsanomaterials are being developed for various applications include energy, environmental, health care and space applications.