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Transition metal-based materials for energy storage and energy conversion
The transition metal elements (TMs), which have empty or half-filled d orbital, play important roles in materials for energy storage and energy conversion, including metal-ion batteries, metal-air batteries, solar cells, electro-catalysts, thermoelectric materials, electro-catalytic carbon dioxide reduction, electro-catalytic nitrogen reduction and other applications.
For energy storage, the TMs offered a flexible valence state and the ability to form different structures with oxygen, making them ideal battery cathode materials for storing different ions ranges such as alkali metal ions, alkali earth metal ions, Al ions and Zn ions. These systems are now one of the hottest topic in both academic and industrial fields.
Thanks to their variable valence state, TMs also form flexible stochiometric compounds with chalcogens/pnictides which have numerous simple or complex structures with anomalous properties in thermoelectric, magnetics, photoelectric properties, etc. Therefore, the purpose of this Research Topic is to demonstrate on-going, state-of-art research on the structure-application of the transition metal-based materials, including both energy conversion and energy storage. It involves batteries, catalysts, thermoelectric and any other fields. This guarantees the wide public attentions from readers from various disciplines. Topics covered include, but are not limited to
(1) Transition Metal-based materials for secondary batteries;
(2) Transition Metal-based materials for electrocatalysis;
(3) Transition Metal-based materials for thermoelectricity;
(4) Transition Metal-based materials for solar cells;
(5) Transition Metal-based materials for photocatalysts.
Editors
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Weijie Li
Central South University, li-306@csu.edu.cn
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Zhijia Zhang
Tiangong University, zhangzhijia@tiangong.edu.cn
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Chao Han
Central South University, chao.han@csu.edu.cn
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Nan Li
Tiangong University, linan@tiangong.edu.cn
