Editorial: Catalysts for Clean Energy Conversion and Storage

Nanoalloy catalysts for electrochemical energy conversion and storage reactions

A key challenge to the exploration of electrochemical energy conversion and storage is the ability to engineer the catalyst with low cost, high activity and high stability. Existing catalysts often contain a high percentage of noble metals such as Pt and Pd. One important approach to this challenge involves alloying noble metals with other transition metals in the form of a nanoalloy, which pro...

Materials for Clean Energy Conversion

Energy storage deployment and innovation for the clean energy transition

The clean energy transition requires a co-evolution of innovation, investment, and deployment strategies for emerging energy storage technologies. A deeply decarbonized energy system research platform needs materials science advances in battery technology to overcome the intermittency challenges of wind and solar electricity. Simultaneously, policies designed to build market growth and innovati...

Nanostructured carbon for energy storage and conversion

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA Department of Chemistry, Beijing Key Laboratory for Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beiji...

Nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage.

Nanostructured materials are advantageous in offering huge surface to volume ratios, favorable transport properties, altered physical properties, and confinement effects resulting from the nanoscale dimensions, and have been extensively studied for energy-related applications such as solar cells, catalysts, thermoelectrics, lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors, and hydrogen storage systems. T...