Call for Papers — Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion, Storage and Environmental Application

Veruscript Functional Nanomaterials

Editor-in-Chief: Prof. YanQiu Zhu, University of Exeter
Guest Editor: Dr. Asif Tahir, University of Exeter

Veruscript Functional Nanomaterials is issuing a call for papers for a Special Issue on the subject of chemical synthesis of nanomaterials for solar energy conversion, storage and environmental applications.

Clean energy and a sustainable environment are grand challenges that the world is facing, and nanostructured materials such as nanowires, nanorods and quantum dot structures play a key role to address these challenges. Nanomaterials have provided new directions and contributed to the growth of the world economy. Nanostructure and nano-architecture based properties such as surface to volume ratios, favourable transport properties, altered physical properties, and confinement effects have been extensively studied for solar energy conversion, storage and environmental applications.

This special issue will highlight recent advances in chemical synthesis of nanostructured materials for efficient energy conversion, storage and environmental applications. Therefore, we invite researchers to contribute original papers and reviews describing recent findings in the field of nanostructured materials, included texture controlled synthesis and its effect on performance.

The issue will cover, but not be limited, to:

1. Synthesis and fabrication of nanoparticles
2. Thin films deposition
3. Stabilization and functionalisation of nanomaterials
4. Energy conversion application including: photovoltaics, solar fuels (water splitting, CO2 photoreduction), DSSCs, thin film solar cells, fuel cells, thermoelectrics
5. Energy storage including: electrochemical storage, batteries, thermal storage, H2 storage
6. Environmental applications
7. Biological applications
8. Sensors

Please submit relevant articles through Veruscript Functional Nanomaterials submission site. Any enquiries can be emailed to editorial@veruscript.com.

All Article Processing Charges (APCs) have been waived for this special issue.

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Guest Editor — Dr. Asif Tahir

Dr. Asif Tahir is a lecturer in renewable energy at the University of Exeter where he is a member of the Renewable Energy department in the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences. He gained his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Quaid-I-Azam University in 2009 and has worked as a research associate at Loughborough University and the University of Liverpool, before joining the University of Exeter.

Dr. Tahir’s current research focuses on the development of new chemical approaches to solar energy conversion, such as harnessing solar energy to produce electricity, molecular fuel or photocatalysis. He is currently investigating the photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical performance of metal oxide, oxynitiride and nitride photoelectrodes for solar hydrogen generation.