Carbon Research - Call for papers: Functional Carbon Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
The following special issue in Carbon Research is open for submissions. The submission deadline is June 30, 2024.
Call for papers: Functional Carbon Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
Lead Guest Editor:
Prof. Wenli Zhang is currently a professor of chemical engineering at Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), Guangzhou, China. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Jilin University (JLU), China 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he carried out his post-doctoral research in professor Husam N. Alshareef's group at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. He is the winner of the 2021 “Professor Detchko Pavlov” Young Scientist Award by Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems, Bulgaria Academy of Sciences. Currently, his researches focus on carbonaceous materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion, and industrial applications.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Swati J. Patil received her Ph.D. in Physics from the Department of Physics, Shivaji University, India, in 2015. She joined the School of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Chonnam National University, South Korea, in 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher. She was promoted to research professor in 2017. She was appointed as Foreigner assistant professor at the Department of Energy and Materials Engineering, Dongguk University, South Korea, in 2020. Currently, she has joined Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, as an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Her major research interests are the synthesis and characterization of multidimensional nanomaterials and their applications in electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems.
Dr. Nilesh R. Chodankar is an assistant professor at the Energy and Materials Engineering Department, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in materials science from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India, in 2016 and joined Chonnam National University, South Korea as a postdoctoral researcher. His research expertise is designing and developing advanced materials for clean energy conversion and storage technology, battery recycling, and wearable and healthcare devices.
Dr. Minglei Sun received his Ph.D degree from Southeast University in 2018. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on the theoretical investigation of nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage. He has published more than 70 papers in peer reviewed journals including Adv. Energy Mater. and Chem. Mater. These papers attracted more than 4100 citations and produced an H-index of 44.
Prof. Ke Lu is currently a professor at Anhui University, Hefei, China. He received his Ph.D. from Shandong University in 2018. During 2017-2018, he worked as a visiting PhD student in the Institute of New Energy for Vehicles at Tongji University, under the supervision of Prof. Yunhui Huang. Prior to his current position, Ke worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Northern Illinois University/Argonne National Laboratory (2018-2020). He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. His group works in the investigation of catalysis effects in redox batteries and construction of advanced electrocatalyst.
Prof. Gang Huang is currently a Professor at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He obtained his PhD degree in Applied Chemistry from CIAC in 2016. After 5 years of postdoc research at Tohoku University, UNIST, and KAUST, he joined CIAC in 2021. His research interest focuses on the design and development of advanced electrodes and electrolytes for mobile ion batteries, like Li/Na/Zn-ion batteries, and metal-air batteries. He has published 80 SCI papers with 3400+ citations and H-index 35 (Google Scholar), which include J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Energy Environ. Sci. etc.
Prof. Cheng Yang is a tenured associate professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China. He is an associate board member of Scientific Reports, technical board member of IEEE-ICEPT, technical board member of the China Electronic and Information Materials and Devices Conference, and referee for more than 30 academic journals including Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Joule, and Angew Chem Int Ed etc. He has published over 100 SCI papers, including 3 papers in Nature Communications, 1 paper in Chemical Reviews, 3 papers in Advanced Materials, and 7 papers in Energy &Environmental Science etc. His total citation is over 6000 times, and the H-index is 39. Among the published papers, there have been 12 highly cited (ESI top 1%) and 3 hot papers (ESI top 0.1%).
Prof. Huabin Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences (FJIRSM–CAS), China. After finishing his postdoc research in Japan (Supervisor: Jinhua Ye) at the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) and Singapore (supervisor: Xiong Wen Lou) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, he joined KAUST serving as an Assistant Professor in January 2021. His research interests focus on advanced catalysis for sustainable energy.
Prof. Chuan Xia is currently a Professor at the School of Materials and Energy of The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China. Dr. Xia received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2018 followed by a postdoctoral training at Harvard university and Rice university. He focus on developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials, understanding their fundamental properties, and utilizing such structures to develop novel catalysts that can be applied in the areas of electrocatalysis, energy generation, storage, and conversion. He was recently honored with the J. Evans Attwell-Welch postdoctoral fellowship award (2019) and the best applied paper award of AIChE STS (2020).
Prof. Husam Niman Alshareef is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. He is now a fellows of the American Physical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. He then did his postdoctoral work at Sandia National Laboratory, USA. Following ten years in the semiconductor industry, he joined KAUST in 2009, where he has been running a research group focused on developing inorganic nanomaterials for energy and electronics.
Aims and Scope:
Carbonaceous materials play important roles in designing electrochemical devices for energy conversion and storage, which provides us with opportunities to design systems that could significantly utilize the electricity generated from renewable energy to a greater extent. The past decade has witnessed remarkable advances in next-generation rechargeable batteries. Electrochemical processes are regarded as the ultimate green and sustainable chemical engineering processes for the purpose of obtaining the chemical and raw materials to build our modern society. In this regard, the electrochemical engineering process that converts CO2, primary biomasses, or the components of biomasses into high value-added chemicals has flourished in the research areas related to carbonaceous materials all over the world. These electrochemical engineering processes will certainly reduce our reliance on non-renewable fossil fuels, which could meaningfully help us achieve a more sustainable world.
This special issue aims to highlight the recent advances in functional carbon materials as the active electrode materials and electrocatalysts for electrochemical energy storage devices, and electrocatalysts for important electrochemical processes that convert carbon dioxide and biomasses into valuable chemicals. Our editorial board members are especially interested in prestigious research papers and critical review papers focusing on the related topics:
Advanced carbon materials as electrodes for next-generation rechargeable batteries (sodium-ion batteries, advanced lithium-ion batteries and their solid-state design, potassium ion batteries, Zn-based and magnesium-based energy storage devices, etc.);
Functional carbonaceous catalysts for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide and electrochemical conversion of biomass or platform chemicals.
Design of advanced carbonaceous materials for advanced supercapacitors and microsupercapaictors.
Design of advanced carbonaceous materials or electrocatalysts from lignocellulose biomass and other renewable carbon resources.
Carbon-based electrochemical energy conversion devices with specific functions.
