Preface: progress in synthesis and characterization of energy materials

摘要

The looming shortage of natural resources drives the scientific and commercial interest in renewable energies, energy recovery, and power saving. In this context, the development of novel approaches, replacement of toxic and less available resources, and improvement of existing technologies to synthesize suitable materials is pivotal. This is reflected in more than 160,000 papers found when searching for "energy materials" on the Web of Science. Knowledge-based materials engineering is mostly based upon the micro-anostructure-property relationships.