Topic: Emerging Functional Materials for Green Energy

Emerging functional materials play a pivotal role in advancing green energy technologies by enabling efficient energy harvesting, storage, and conversion. In recent years, significant advances have been made in the design and synthesis of novel functional materials (such as two-dimensional materials, metal-organic frameworks, and advanced nanostructured materials), demonstrating remarkable potential across various applications. Importantly, research in this field has progressed beyond fundamental laboratory research toward performance validation in prototype devices, thereby accelerating the transition from scientific discovery to practical deployment and commercialization. This Special Issue features contributions that explore emerging functional materials for green energy applications from multiple perspectives, including materials synthesis, mechanism analysis, device design, and performance evaluation. We welcome full research articles, communications, perspectives, and reviews spanning chemistry, physics, materials science, and mechanical engineering. Interdisciplinary contributions that bridge these disciplines are also encouraged.

Scope and Topics
This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in emerging functional materials for green energy applications, covering a broad spectrum of topics, including but not limited to:

● Novel functional materials for batteries, catalytic systems, and sensors;

● Advanced synthesis methods and characterization techniques;

● Mechanism analysis and device design strategies;

● Performance evaluation and system-level integration;

● Prospects and future directions for sustainable energy technologies;

● Microbattery materials and device engineering;

● Other green energy-related fields.

Emerging functional materials, synthesis and characterization, high-performance materials, mechanism, commercialization, green chemistry