As humanity was developing, we have faced unprecedented environmental problems and energy crises. Therefore, the development of new techniques and materials for producing clean energy and environmental purification has become the hot spot around the world. Many works were reported to develop various inorganic materials that were used in electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, heterogeneous-fenton, PMS activation, etc. Inorganic materials are a huge family, including metals, metal oxides, nonmetallic oxides, sulphides, nitrides, phosphides, haloids, etc. All these kinds of materials appeared in the research of energy and environmental catalysis. Furthermore, inorganic materials have a wide range of nanostructures, which play significant roles in catalysis. Also, their composites are always regarded as achieve higher performance. Therefore, inorganic materials have played a major role in the fields of energy and environmental catalysis over the past decades and have demonstrated a great potential for the future.
Environmental problems and energy crises are two great challenges for human beings. Developing new techniques and materials for producing clean energy and environmental purification has attracted a lot of attention in the past decades. Although numerous related works were reported and a lot of inorganic materials were used in energy and environmental catalysis, there is still a great gap between the lab research and the practical applications. Encouragingly, however, more and more works were focused on practical applications and some attempts were made. The difficulties for the lab research to move to practical application include, the cost of the inorganic materials, relatively low efficiency, the effect of complex conditions, the recycling performance, etc. A lot of work is needed to be done before a new technique find a practical application. Therefore, any effort that focuses on lifting resolving the practical use barriers of concrete applications of inorganic materials for energy and environment catalysis are encouraged to be submitted to this Research Topic. We believe that this Topic will give some valuable references to the development of inorganic materials used in energy and environmental applications.
We welcome the submission of Original Research, Review and Mini-Review articles that include, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Inorganic materials used in photocatalysis/photoelectrocatalysis
• Inorganic materials used in water splitting
• Inorganic materials used in reduction of carbon dioxide
• Inorganic materials used in wastewater purification
• Inorganic materials used in air purification
• Devices for energy conversion and environmental remediation
• Devices for environmental remediation
As humanity was developing, we have faced unprecedented environmental problems and energy crises. Therefore, the development of new techniques and materials for producing clean energy and environmental purification has become the hot spot around the world. Many works were reported to develop various inorganic materials that were used in electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, heterogeneous-fenton, PMS activation, etc. Inorganic materials are a huge family, including metals, metal oxides, nonmetallic oxides, sulphides, nitrides, phosphides, haloids, etc. All these kinds of materials appeared in the research of energy and environmental catalysis. Furthermore, inorganic materials have a wide range of nanostructures, which play significant roles in catalysis. Also, their composites are always regarded as achieve higher performance. Therefore, inorganic materials have played a major role in the fields of energy and environmental catalysis over the past decades and have demonstrated a great potential for the future.
Environmental problems and energy crises are two great challenges for human beings. Developing new techniques and materials for producing clean energy and environmental purification has attracted a lot of attention in the past decades. Although numerous related works were reported and a lot of inorganic materials were used in energy and environmental catalysis, there is still a great gap between the lab research and the practical applications. Encouragingly, however, more and more works were focused on practical applications and some attempts were made. The difficulties for the lab research to move to practical application include, the cost of the inorganic materials, relatively low efficiency, the effect of complex conditions, the recycling performance, etc. A lot of work is needed to be done before a new technique find a practical application. Therefore, any effort that focuses on lifting resolving the practical use barriers of concrete applications of inorganic materials for energy and environment catalysis are encouraged to be submitted to this Research Topic. We believe that this Topic will give some valuable references to the development of inorganic materials used in energy and environmental applications.
We welcome the submission of Original Research, Review and Mini-Review articles that include, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Inorganic materials used in photocatalysis/photoelectrocatalysis
• Inorganic materials used in water splitting
• Inorganic materials used in reduction of carbon dioxide
• Inorganic materials used in wastewater purification
• Inorganic materials used in air purification
• Devices for energy conversion and environmental remediation
• Devices for environmental remediation