Energy is the objective, Materials is the fundamental, and Nanotechnology is the approach.
This Special issue on Energy, Materials and Nanotechnology (EMN) of Journal of Electronic Science and Technology (JEST) presents a broad range of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research into cutting-edge scientific concepts towards materials synthesis, characterization and novel technology developments.
Climate change and environmental degradation partly stem from the global Energy crisis confronting us today and has informed major global discussions and unilateral agreements such as thejust ended United Nations climate talks in Bonn, Germany and the Paris Agreement aimed at peaking global warming at 1.5°C. Such goals, rely on efficient cultivation of renewable energy to meet global needs. To this effect, our scientific community needs to devise new and effective approaches to harvesting and storing renewable energy such as solar conversionto electricity through photovoltaic cells or to chemical energy via photocatalysis. Advances in Nanotechnology by far brings us a broad spectrum of new Materials structures such as Quantum Dots, Nanowires, Nanotubes, Graphene,and Perovskites towards improving Energy harvesting and storage. Such energy nanomaterialspresent a vast range of tunable physical, chemical, biological, photonic and photocatalytic properties which are otherwise absent in the bulk materials. As aresult, enhanced performance such as high quantum yield and efficiency isattainable.
EMN has been a conference series for many years with a closely knit ever-growing community forged by thousands of attendees and presentations. With contributions from multifaceted fields including physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and so on, the EMN community gathers to face the global Energy challenges on the wheels of novel materialsand fueled by nanotechnology. With this special issue, we invited more of such contributions to keep the community forward-looking and evolving.