Guest Editors
Weigang Zhao, Professor, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China.
Dr. Weigang Zhao is Jinshan Scholar Distinguished Professor of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and also Associate Head of Department of Energy Engineering. Dr. Weigang Zhao received his PhD in chemistry in 2012 from the Institut Jean Lamour UMR 7198 CNRS-University of Lorraine, France. Dr. Zhao specializes in biomass derived materials for energy and environment applications, such as porous materials, electrode material, adsorption materials and so on. Zhao’s works have been published in more than 60 peer-reviewed top-tier journals. Meanwhile, Dr. Weigang Zhao has reviewed more than 50 papers in the field of biomass materials for energy and environment applications.
Summary
During the last two decades, renewable materials and their composites derived from biomass resources have attracted a great deal of attention for their various applications, which are highly economical and environmentally benign in nature. Recently, a number of effective processes have been developed for the fabrication of advanced functional materials from biomass precursors that enabled excellent physical and chemical properties in the materials. These properties have been proved to be highly compatible and synergistic interaction for their diverse applications in several areas, especially for energy storage applications. But the development of innovative methodologies to convert biomass into useful and innovative materials and composites is still a significant challenge. Thus, we emphasize the utilization of different raw biomass or biomass-derived precursors for the synthesis of energy storage materials and their composite materials, functionalization of those materials to make advanced systems and their emerging applications in energy storage fields, such as supercapacitors, hydrogen production and storage, lithium-ion batteries, sodium/potassium-ion batteries, lithium–sulfur batteries, metal–air batteries and so on.
This Special Issue of “Advanced Renewable Energy Storage Materials and their composite: Preparation, Characterization and Applications” covers general topics on energy storage materials and composites based on renewable material precursors. The scope of this issue can be expanded from the synthesis and design of energy storage materials and composites to the fabrication and applications of these materials. Interdisciplinary approaches are also much welcomed. This issue will publish full research papers and reviews. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• innovative materials and composites synthesis from renewable materials
• innovative methodologies to convert renewable material into energy storage materials
• simulation and computational materials (Density Functional Theory, First-principles Calculations, Monte Carlo simulation, Molecular Dynamics, etc….)
• energy storage materials and devices (hydrogen production and storage, supercapacitors, Batteries, fuel cells, etc….)
Keywords
hydrogen production and storage, lithium-ion batteries, sodium/potassium-ion batteries, lithium–sulfur batteries, metal–air batteries, supercapacitors
Published Papers
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Open Access
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Two-Step Preparation of Hierarchical Porous Carbon Materials Derived from Tannin for Use as an Electrode Material for Supercapacitors
Jianping Deng, Qianqian Zhang, Yuling Lan, Lingcong Luo, Zimin Dai, Zhonghang Lin, Zhixin Lu, Jiancheng Yuan, Yiqi Fu, Lu Luo, Weigang Zhao
Journal of Renewable Materials, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.027163
（This article belongs to this Special Issue:
Advanced Renewable Energy Storage Materials and Their Composite: Preparation, Characterization and Applications)
Abstract The development and utilization of biomass and agroforestry processing byproducts for high-value applications
have been an important topic in the field of renewable materials research. Based on this, a two-step microwave
hydrothermal pre-carbonization and KOH activation method was proposed to synthesize tannin-based activated
carbons with a high specific surface area, hierarchical pore structure, and good electrochemical performance. The
microstructure, texture properties, and physicochemical characteristics were investigated. The results show that
the prepared tannin-based activated carbons presented a hierarchical pore structure (micro- and mesopores) with
a specific surface area as high as 997.46 m
3 g
−1
. The electrochemical analysis shows that…
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Open Access
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Study on Hydrogen Storage Properties, Anti-Oxide Ability and Rate Limiting Step of ZrCr-Based Alloy after Introducing Cobalt as Additive
Dongfang Huang, Peng Lv, Changlin Zhong, Xingsheng Zhou, Zhichen Liu
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.11, No.3, pp. 1383-1400, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.023261
（This article belongs to this Special Issue:
Advanced Renewable Energy Storage Materials and Their Composite: Preparation, Characterization and Applications)
Abstract In this work, the microstructure, hydrogen storage properties, anti-oxide ability and rate limiting step of Zr(Cr
1−xCo
x)
2 (x = 0, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6) alloys have been investigated. After studying the crystal structure, we found that all alloy samples could show C14-type phase but the alloy sample x = 0 could also show a small amount of Cr phase. Rietveld fitting showed that lattice parameter and unit cell volume of C14-type phase decreased with increasing x. After further research, it was clear that the first hydrogen absorption capacity decreased with increasing x. But introducing more Co content had a positive influence on the effective hydrogen…
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Open Access
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Environmental Protection and Energy Color Changing Clothing Design under the Background of Sustainable Development
Jingyu Dai, Hongyu Dai, Yutong Xie, T. Indumathi
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.11, pp. 2717-2728, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.019735
（This article belongs to this Special Issue:
Advanced Renewable Energy Storage Materials and Their Composite: Preparation, Characterization and Applications)
Abstract In order to promote the application of clean energy technology in clothing and promote the integration of industrial development and artificial intelligence wearable technology, this study elaborates the energy application characteristics of intelligent wearable products at home and abroad and its application in different fields, aiming at the
current research status of wearable technology in the field of textile and clothing. The wearable distributed generation technology is classified, and a creative clothing design for detecting climate temperature is designed. Based
on the monitoring of body temperature, the changes in clothing pattern color can reflect people’s health and emotional status. At…
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BaTiO3/Polyurethane Dielectric Composites with Diels-Alder Bond for Improved Self-Healing Properties
Junlong Yao, Wei Nie, Zhengguang Sun, Huan Yang, Yu Guan, Lin Gao, Xueliang Jiang, Mujie Guo, Chuanxi Xiong
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.9, pp. 2355-2364, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.019339
（This article belongs to this Special Issue:
Advanced Renewable Energy Storage Materials and Their Composite: Preparation, Characterization and Applications)
Abstract In general, self-healing dielectric composites are mainly composed of polar hydrogen bonds, which have high
hydrophilicity and are unsuitable for humid environment. Dielectric composite with Diels-Alder (D-A) bond
contains covalent bonds, it can be adopted as an efficient self-healing material. Here, we construct self-healing
barium titanate (BT)/polyurethane (PU) dielectric composites by adopting PU with D-A bond as matrix (BT/
PU-DA). The prepared 10% BT/PU-DA composite exhibits superior self-healing ability than that of PU-DA.
Moreover, its dielectric constant can reach 9.3 with a loss of only 0.04 at 1000 Hz and maintain 93% repair effi-
ciency of tensile strength. The experimental…
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Facile Preparation of Fe–N–C Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts from Metal Organic Frameworks for Zn-Air Battery
Chengcheng Wang, Dawei Luo, Bingxue Hou, Mortaza Gholizadeh, Zanxiong Tan, Xiaojie Han
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.5, pp. 1337-1348, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.018770
（This article belongs to this Special Issue:
Advanced Renewable Energy Storage Materials and Their Composite: Preparation, Characterization and Applications)
Abstract It is critical to study efficient, stable oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts due to insufficient stability and expensive price of Pt/C catalysts for Zn-air batteries. Fe–N–C electrocatalysts was synthesized by a facile solvent-green method and the efficiency of Fe–N–C optimized was studied as potential ORR electrocatalysts under alkaline condition. Results indicated that it had excellent ORR activity with E
1/2 of 0.93 V, which was competitive to that of Pt/C-JM under the same conditions. Moreover, the assembled Zn-air battery exhibited discharge potential and charge potential of 1.2 V, 2.32 V at 5 mA cm
−2 with high stability, respectively. Overall, all results illustrated…
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