About this Research Topic
Nowadays, the world is facing two concomitant challenges including the ever-booming energy consumption and the rapid degradation of the environment. These energy and environmental crises further bring forth human health concerns due to the continuous discharge of harmful substances into the aquatic environment. The composite materials with optimal composition ratios, well-defined hetero-interfaces as well as elaborately conceived surface states usually demonstrate enhanced performances in the fields of renewable energy, environmental protection and medical care. During these processes, the catalytic performances of the composites are of great significance, not only increasing the power density and reversibility of energy storage devices, but also expediting the degradation, transformation and mineralization of organic and inorganic pollutants in different water bodies. Moreover, the catalytic behaviors of the composites also cover health care applications such as disinfection treatment, drug delivery, cancer therapy, etc.
Due to the structural complexity of the composite materials and the multistep evolution of the catalytic process, it remains a big challenge to comprehensively understand the relationship between the structural features (influences of coordination environmental, surface defects, hetero-interfaces, etc.) and the reaction processes to the mass diffusion, charge migration and surface adsorption steps in the aforementioned application systems. This Research Topic, titled “Rational-designed Composite Materials and their Applications in Renewable Energy, Environmental Protection and Medical Care”, will mainly focus on the catalytic mechanisms of novel composite materials in energy storage devices, water remediation, photocatalytic mineralization, micro-organism disinfection, photodynamic therapy, bio-toxicity and state-of-the-art performances, by virtue of in-situ, operando means and the first principle calculations, so as to offer more in-depth understanding on the structure-property relationship during reaction process catalyzed by composite materials.
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research or Reviews on experiments and theoretical simulation, focusing on the design methodology for a variety of novel composites materials based on carbons, semiconductors, metal-organic frameworks, polymer based composite materials and the exploration of their potential applications in the following themes:
• Energy storage devices, including secondary batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells etc.;
• Water remediation, including photocatalysis, advanced oxidation process, CO2 reduction, hydrogen generation etc.;
• Health care, including disinfection, cancer therapy, bio-toxicity etc.
Due to the structural complexity of the composite materials and the multistep evolution of the catalytic process, it remains a big challenge to comprehensively understand the relationship between the structural features (influences of coordination environmental, surface defects, hetero-interfaces, etc.) and the reaction processes to the mass diffusion, charge migration and surface adsorption steps in the aforementioned application systems. This Research Topic, titled “Rational-designed Composite Materials and their Applications in Renewable Energy, Environmental Protection and Medical Care”, will mainly focus on the catalytic mechanisms of novel composite materials in energy storage devices, water remediation, photocatalytic mineralization, micro-organism disinfection, photodynamic therapy, bio-toxicity and state-of-the-art performances, by virtue of in-situ, operando means and the first principle calculations, so as to offer more in-depth understanding on the structure-property relationship during reaction process catalyzed by composite materials.
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research or Reviews on experiments and theoretical simulation, focusing on the design methodology for a variety of novel composites materials based on carbons, semiconductors, metal-organic frameworks, polymer based composite materials and the exploration of their potential applications in the following themes:
• Energy storage devices, including secondary batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells etc.;
• Water remediation, including photocatalysis, advanced oxidation process, CO2 reduction, hydrogen generation etc.;
• Health care, including disinfection, cancer therapy, bio-toxicity etc.
Keywords: Defect regulation, Interface control, Catalyst, Renewable energy storage, Environmental impact and remediation, Biosensing and image
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