Call for Papers [Special Topic]

Catalytic Materials in Energy

The special topic calls for papers on Catalytic Materials in Energy and such papers will appear in the journal Energy Science and Technology as a special column. Description
Growing demand in energy and the need to reduce our societys carbon footprint call for transformative ways to increase efficiency, sustainability, and diversity in energy production, conversion, and storage. Novel materials play a key role her e by acting as catalysts and facilitating desirable chemical transformations. It is becoming increasingly evident that bringing the materials science perspective into catalyst discovery can provide many opportunities in synthesis, characterization, and the use of novel catalysts in energy applications. Control of morphology, shape, interface, and size in synthesis can help establish a structure-activity relationship essential to the understanding of a catalysts function. Materials with well-defined structures allow one to precisely introduce and tune the surface functionality to achieve high selectivity. To make a sizable contribution to the societys energy issue, electrocatalysts have to move away pure platinum towards cheaper alternatives. Materials strategies to reduce the cost by employing more abundant elements are highly preferable. Artificial photosynthesis of fuels by water splitting and CO2 reduction via photocatalytic materials is the holy grail of clean energy, but the challenge is to achieve high enough solar-energy conversion efficiency. Advances in atomic-level characterization and theoretical/computational methods could also speed up our discovery of novel materials for use as catalysts in energy applications. In this special topic, we invite authors to contribute original research and review articles with emphasis on recent advancement of novel catalytic materials in energy and environmental applications.

Requirements
In addition to the Review and Original Articles by invited speakers, we are inviting you to submit a relevant research paper on Catalytic Materials in Energy for consideration. Papers will be subject to normal peer review and must comply with the Guide for Authors. To submit papers to the Catalytic Materials in Energy Special Topic , please go to http://www.cscanada.net. With your submission, please state clearly to the editor that your manuscripts are submitted to the Special Topic Catalytic Materials in Energy.

Related Conferences:
September 23- 26, 2013, M lheim a.d. Ruhr Germany, 5th International Conference onCarbon for Energy Storage/Conversionand Environment Protection Jul 28 Aug 01, 2013, Ft. Collins, United States. 17th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis Aug04 - Aug 09, 2013. Lyon, France, XIth European Congress on Catalysis

Related Journals (Special issue):

Energy and Environment Focus (Special Issue: New Energy Materials for future Applications) Energy and Environment Focus (Special Issue: Carbon-based Materials for Energy and Environment Applications) Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (Special Issue: Functional Hybrid Materials for Energy Application) Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering (Advanced Materials: Adsorbent and Catalyst for Environmental Application)

Related Articles:
Corma, A., Diaz, U., Garcia, T., Sastre, G., & V elty, A. (2010). Multifunctional Hybrid Organic Inorganic Catalytic Materials with a Hierarchical System of Well-Defined Micro-and Mesopores. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(42), 15011-15021. Guo, Y . G., Hu, J. S., & Wan, L. J. (2008). Nanostructured materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices. Advanced Materials, 20(15), 2878-2887. Ilie, A., Simoes, M., Baranton, S., Coutanceau, C., & Martemianov, S. (2011). Influence of operational parameters and of catalytic materials on electrical performance of Direct Glycerol Solid Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cells. Journal of Power Sources, 196(11), 4965-4971. Linic, S., Christopher, P., & Ingram, D. B. (2011). Plasmonic-metal nanostructures for efficient conversion of solar to chemical energy. Nature materials, 10(12), 911-921. Liang, Y ., Li, Y ., Wang, H., Zhou, J., Wang, J., Regier, T., & Dai, H. (2011). Co3O4 nanocrystals on graphene as a synergistic catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction. Nature materials, 10(10), 780-786. Maeda, K., Eguchi, M., Youngblood, W. J., & Mallouk, T. E. (2009). Calcium niobate nanosheets prepared by the polymerized complex method as catalytic materials for photochemical hydrogen evolution. Chemistry of Materials, 21(15), 3611-3617. Roy-Mayhew, J. D., Bozym, D. J., Punckt, C., & Aksay, I. A. (2010). Functionalized graphene as a catalytic counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells. Acs Nano, 4(10), 6203-6211.

About The Journal

Energy Science and Technology (ISSN 1923-8460 [PRINT]; ISSN 1923-8479 [ONLINE]) is dedicated to providing a multidisciplinary platform for detailed and comprehensive investigations, analyses and appropriate reviews on energy science and technology. EST publishes peer-reviewed original scholarly high-quality work such as analytical, numerical, or experimental results and physical analyses of processes of lasting scientific value. Those pertaining to modeling, theory, analysis, simulations, technology development, experiments, and visualization and measurement techniques are also appropriate for the journal. Energy Science and Technology is indexed by CAS of America, DOAJ of Sweden, CNKI of China, Journal TOCs of England, Open J-gate of India, and ProQuest LIC. It is filed by Library and Archives Canada, Gale , EBSCO Publishing , Ulrich's of America, and collected by the database AMICUS of Canada. More detailed information about the journal can be discovered in http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/est. We sincerely welcome you to submit articles to the special column Catalytic Materials in Energy which also serves as the subject of your paper. If you rightly have a manuscript in this field, please dont hesitate to write us an email with the subject of Submission for EST Special Topic: Catalytic Materials in Energy (http://cscanada.net/users/index.php/index/login ). We look forward to your submission at est@cscanada.org ; est@cscanada.net . More detailed information about the special topic, pertinent conferences, related journals (special issue) and relevant articles can be discovered from our websites: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/est/announcement/view/82

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