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Special Issue: Carbon Neutrality of Energy and Steel - Dedicated to the 65th anniversary of North China University of Science and Technology

Submission deadline: December 30th, 2023

Objectives & Scope: Tangshan of China is famous as "steel city". North China University of Science and Technology (NCUST) is a university built on the industrial chain of Hebei Province. Its mission is to provide intellectual support for the low-carbon technology development of the steel and other industries in Hebei province and even the whole country. In order to better fulfill its mission and responsibilities, NCUST established Hebei Iron and Steel Laboratory in 2023, bringing together world-wide scientists towards both cutting edge researches and engineering fields. Continuous progresses have been made in renewable fuel production, low-carbon metallurgical process, electrochemical energy storage, carbon materials, solid waste utilization and other research fields.

To celebrate the establishment of the Hebei Iron and Steel Laboratory and the 65th anniversary of the NCUST in 2023, this special issue will publish the researches from chemical science, materials science and other disciplines in the university to introduce their progresses and insights in carbon neutrality of energy.

Topics. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • carbon neutrality
  • renewable fuel production
  • electrochemical energy storage
  • carbon materials
  • solid waste utilization

 

Guest Editors:

Tierui Zhang, Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xianguang Meng, North China University of Science and Technology

Jinhua Ye, National Institute for Materials Science

 

Keywords: carbon neutrality, renewable fuel production, electrochemical energy storage, carbon materials, solid waste utilization


Submission guidelines

Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central as the “Carbon Neutrality of Energy and Steel”. Submissions shall adhere to the journal Author Guidelines.


Learn more about our guest editors!


Tierui Zhang

Dr. Tierui Zhang is a full Professor in Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Director of Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, CAS. He received Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 2003 from Jilin University in China. After that, he did postdoctoral study in Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces with Prof. Markus Antonietti and Dr. Charl Faul (2003-2004), University of Alberta with Prof. Hicham Fenniri (2004-2005), University of Arkansas with Prof. Z. Ryan Tian (2005-2007) and University of California-Riverside with Prof. Yadong Yin and Prof. Yushan Yan (2007-2009), respectively.

His research activity focuses on nanomaterials for energy conversion such as photocatalytic solar fuels and value-added chemicals. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed SCI journal articles. These publications have earned him to date over 34000 citations with H-index 104. He was named in the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2018-2022 List by Clarivate Analytics. Dr. Zhang is the associate editor of Science Bulletin, Industrial Chemistry & Materials, Nano Research Energy and Transactions of Tianjin University. He is the recipient of a number of awards including Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship, National High-Level Talents Special Support Program, “Outstanding Young Scholars” of the National Science Fund.



Xianguang Meng

Prof. Xianguang Meng received his Ph.D. in 2015 from Hokkaido University in Japan. Then he continued the research work at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, during 2015-2017 as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Jinhua Ye’s group. After that he took professor position in North China University of Science and Technology and had a visiting scholar experience in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS. In 2018, he was funded by The Hong Kong Scholars Program for a 2-year postdoctoral study in the City University of Hong Kong.

His current research interests include the conversion of CO2, CH4, and other small molecules into renewable fuels through the photo-, thermo-, or electrocatalytic methods, especially the development of innovated reaction processes for the conversion of C1 molecules into value-added chemicals. In 2018, He was awarded the Young Talent Lecture Prize by the 22nd International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy. In 2019, he was awarded by the “Hundred Talents Program” of Hebei Province. He was appointed as youth editor of Carbon Energy (2022-2023).

 


Jinhua Ye

Jinhua Ye received her PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1990. She has worked in National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, from Oct. 1991 to Mar. 2023. She served as the Director of Photocatalytic Materials Center of NIMS from 2006-2011, Director of Environmental Remediation Materials Unit of NIMS from 2011-2016, and a Principal Investigator at International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) of NIMS from 2007-2023. She was also a Professor of Joint Doctoral Program in Graduate School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan, from 2008, and the director of TJU-NIMS Joint Research Center, Tianjin University, China, from 2011-2021. From April of 2023, she joined Hebei University, China. She is now serving as a Satellite Principal Investigator of WPI-MANA, NIMS, and an Inviting Professor of Hokkaido University.

Her research interests focus on the development of photo functional materials in the fields of environment and renewable energy. She has contributed more than 660 high impact research papers, which have been cited over 66,000 times (h index: 132). She has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2016, and continuously selected as Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics), 2022 Pioneer in Energy Research (ACS Publications). She is currently serving as the Associate Editor of ACS Nano, and Science Advances (AAAS).