Special Issue Details
Frontiers in Energy is an international journal that presents “Cutting-edge, Innovative, Interdisciplinary” research in the field of energy. It is dedicated to establishing a high-level academic exchange platform for researchers, scientists, technologists, engineers, and decision-makers in the field of energy to share their original research results and discoveries. Indexed by SCI, EI, SCOPUS, CAS, Google Scholar, INSPEC, etc., the journal has attracted a large readership worldwide.
Electrocatalysis of oxygen, i.e., its molecular reduction and/or evolution from water (Oxygen Electrode) is crucial to the future clean energy market in energy conversion and storage technologies such as fuel cells and water electrolyzers. Frontiers in Energy is launching a Special Issue entitled “Advanced functional nanomaterials as bifunctional oxygen electrodes”.
This special issue aims to emphasize that electrocatalyst design in the future must embrace universality, integrating diverse methods with a range of structural materials, and predicting the performance of a given catalyst on a large scale to realize the goal of efficient catalyst screening. In this regard, the search for bifunctional oxygen electrodes has focused on non-precious materials for use, for example, in alkaline media. The active center(s) in a single electrode require a complex system involving a composite of materials combining synergy between components and catalytic activity: support and metals, for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER).
Contributions to this thematic issue are invited including, but not limited to, the following topics:
1. Synthesis and functionalization (PGM and PGM-free)
2. Nanostructured materials and interfaces
3. Characterization protocols (in-situ, in-operando)
4. Materials surface dynamics
5. Degradation mechanisms (aging, stability, supports)
6. Bifunctionality in Batteries (e.g., Zinc-Air-Battery), performance and storage
7. Fuel cells and water electrolyzers
8. Unitized regenerative cells
Guest Editors
Prof. Jiwei Ma
Shanghai Key Laboratory for R&D and Application of Metallic Functional Materials, Institute of New Energy for Vehicles, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
E-mail:jiwei.ma@tongji.edu.cn
Dr. Mª Victoria Martínez
Huerta Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry (ICP), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC)
E-mail: mmartinez@icp.csic.es
Prof. Nicolas Alonso-Vante
IC2MP-UMR-CNRS 7285 University of Poitiers, France
E-mail: nicolas.alonso.vante@univ-poitiers.fr
Submission instructions
The submission website for this journal is located at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fie. Full manuscripts should be prepared based upon the editorial and formatting guidelines provided in the instructions for authors for Frontiers in Energy, which can be accessed from the website: https://link.springer.com/journal/11708/submission-guidelines. It should be noted that it is important that authors select “Special Issue: Advanced functional nanomaterials as bifunctional oxygen electrodes” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.
Deadline for full manuscript submission is December 15, 2024
For more information, please contact:
rqliu@sjtu.edu.cn (Ruiqin Liu)
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