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Low-dimensional materials design for advanced environmental applications

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
01 September 2024
Submission deadline
31 May 2025
The growing environmental challenges, including pollution, resource depletion, and ecosystem degradation, demand innovative solutions for a sustainable future. Advanced environmental research is crucial in developing methods and materials to address these issues. As the global community shifts toward sustainability, the need for advanced materials that support environmental efforts is more pressing than ever. Low-dimensional materials, such as quantum dots, nanowires, and few-layered materials, have become essential in environmental applications due to their unique properties-high surface area, tunable electronic structures, and enhanced reactivity. These characteristics make them highly effective in a variety of environmental technologies, including pollutant detection, degradation and remediation. The design of low-dimensional materials is a promising frontier in materials science. By precisely controlling their microstructures, it is possible to construct these materials for specific environmental applications, holding great potential to revolutionize environmental technologies as well as offering innovative and practical solutions to complex challenges.

However, the potential of low-dimensional materials design for advanced environmental applications is immense and largely unexplored. These materials promise to transform how we address environmental challenges, from detection of aerial/aqueous pollutants to elimination of wastes, which are urged to transform to resources. This special issue aims to showcase the latest advancements in this field, highlighting the role of low-dimensional materials design in driving the next generation of sustainable environmental technologies.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

(1) Low-dimensional materials;

(2) Materials informatics (Computational material design);

(3) Environmental sensing technologies;

(4) Environmental remediation technologies;

(5) Catalysis for wastes to resources.

Editors

  • Jianqiao Liu Jianqiao Liu , 

    Jianqiao Liu

    Dalian Maritime University, jqliu@dlmu.edu.cn

  • Qianru Zhang Qianru Zhang  &

    Qianru Zhang

    Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, zhangqianru@caas.cn

  • Yuanhai Lin Yuanhai Lin

    Yuanhai Lin

    Dalian Maritime University, linyuanhai@dlmu.edu.cn

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