Jinliang Li
Wei Qin
Muhammad Sufyan Javed1,3- 1Siyuan Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
- 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China
- 3Department of Physics, COMSATS University Islamabad Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
Editorial on the Research Topic
Porous Nanomaterials for Superior Energy Storage Devices
The energy issue becomes one of the three major problems facing the society at present. With the rapid growth of global energy demand, the existing fossil fuel-based infrastructure is no longer able to meet the current needs of society. Therefore, alternative technologies should be developed and mobilized, especially those in the development of efficient energy conversion and storage technologies. While advanced energy conversion-storage concepts and renewable energy systems have been the focus of considerable attention in the past decade.
This special issue–mainly focuses on the porous nanomaterials for superior energy conversion and storage devices–consists of three papers spanning topics detailing the porous nanofiber as counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells, microwave-assisted synthesis of porous composite for energy conversion and heteroatom decorated mesoporous materials for photocatalysis. Sun et al. synthesized MoS2-carbon nanofiber composites with electrospinning technique as counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells, achieving a maximum efficiency of 5.7%. Yi et al. utilized microwave-assisted method to obtain porous MoS2-graphene composite to realize a high conversion efficiency in solar cells, demonstrating that the improvement of conversion efficiency is due to the high electrical conductivity and catalytic ability of composite. Ni et al. developed nitrogen and copper co-doped carbon dots/mesoporous WO3 nanocomposite to realize a broad-spectrum response, which facilitate the photocatalytic reaction under UV–vis–NIR light irradiation.
Author Contributions
All authors listed have made a substantial, direct, and intellectual contribution to the work and approved it for publication.
Acknowledgments
We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to all the authors and reviewers who contribute to this special issue. We hope that more readers will find this special edition accurate, and pragmatic guide to applications in the synthesis of porous nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage field.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Keywords: porous nanomaterials, energy conversion, energy storage, solar cells, photocatalysis
Citation: Li J, Qin W and Javed MS (2021) Editorial: Porous Nanomaterials for Superior Energy Storage Devices. Front. Mater. 8:700950. doi: 10.3389/fmats.2021.700950
Received: 27 April 2021; Accepted: 30 April 2021;
Published: 17 May 2021.
Edited and reviewed by:
Jintao Zhang, Shandong University, ChinaCopyright © 2021 Li, Qin and Javed. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Jinliang Li, lijinliang@email.jnu.edu.cn