Editorial: Key Electrochemical Energy Reactions Catalyzed by Nanomaterials

摘要

The application for (photo)electrochemical technologies is set to expand rapidly in the recentseveral decades as demand grows in the environment protection, clean energy storage, andsupply. Several unique characteristics of functionalized nanostructured materials or transitionmetal-nitrogen-carbon complex make them ideal catalyst candidates for combining high energyand power at the material level. These advantages include: (i) increased photo/electrochemicallyactive surface areas for charge transfer, (ii) reduction of photo/electronic and ionic transportresistance at smaller diffusion length scales, and (iii) the ability to incorporate high-energy materialsinto a nanostructured framework capable of sustaining high powers (Lee et al., 2011; Seh et al., 2017;Sagar et al., 2018).