Functional of Materials for Sustainable and Ecological Future

Rationale

The Earth's resources are being impacted by the growing need for advanced materials, modern manufacturing processes, and industrial practices are detrimental to the environment by leaving carbon footprints, using up energy resources, producing garbage, etc. Applications based on functional materials are becoming more and more significant due to recent advancements in material science and technology. For materials engineers, scientists, and academics working in the rapidly evolving, interdisciplinary field of sustainable energy, functional materials for sustainable energy applications are vital. This includes anyone researching, developing, manufacturing, and applying materials for sustainable energy production. Functional materials for sustainable energy applications provide a crucial manual for creating and using these materials in sustainable energy production.

Scope (list of topics to be covered)

• 6Rs of materials (Reusing, recycling, redesigning, remanufacturing, reducing, and recovering) are essential to sustainability, and manufacturing processes can be crucial to preserving a stable homeostatic environment.

• Functional solar power materials include silicon-based, thin-film, and dye-sensitized solar cells, thermophotovoltaic device modeling, and photoelectrochemical cells.

• Functional materials for membrane fuel cells in membranes, catalysts, and membrane electrode assemblies for polymer electrolyte and direct methanol fuel cells, along with electrolytes and ion conductors, novel cathodes, anodes, thin films, and proton conductors for solid oxide fuel cells.

• Functional materials for demand reduction and energy storage with an investigation into computer simulation studies of functional materials.

• An essential guide to the development and application of functional materials in sustainable energy production

• Focuses on functional hydrogen production and storage materials, fuel cells, demand reduction, and energy storage.

• Antibacterial Materials based on bio-based feedstocks: Additive Manufacturing and Surface Coatings Application

• next generation materials involving the discovery, scaling, processing and adoption of advanced and sustainable materials

Key Dates

Open for submissions: July 1, 2023

Submissions closed: December 31, 2023

Submission Instructions

When asked in the submission system "Does this manuscript belong to a Topical Collection" respond with "Yes, TC: Functional of Materials for Sustainable and Ecological Future" in order for your paper to be considered by the guest editors.

This collection was curated by the Editor in Chief from articles that also appear in the journal's issues. The journal's standard peer review policy applies here. If an article was also included in a special issue of the journal, please see the instruction for authors for the special issue peer review policy.