Environment, Energy, Sustainability: Journal- ES Energy & Environment

Qinglong Jiang1,Email

Wei Yu2

Aboozar Mosleh1

Chuntai Liu2

Daoyuan Wang1

Xin Tu3

Yanan Liu4

Stéphanie Ognier6

Grant Wangila1

Bingyang Cao7

Zhanhu Guo5

Brian J. Ewards5

Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 71601, USA

School of Environmental and materials engineering, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Shanghai, 201209, China

Departments of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, United Kingdom

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Dong Hua University, Shanghai, 201620, China

5Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

6Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

7School of Materials Science and Engineering, The Key Laboratory of Material Processing and Mold of Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

Abstract

As human beings, we are an inseparable part of our global environment. Natural resources from the environment, including natural energy resources, play a key role in the development of human civilization; however, the global environment has not been managed well during the course of civilization. Therefore, one of the most important challenges for the world nowadays is to find applications that utilize sustainable and renewable sources of energy, such as solar cells, wind turbines, fuel cells, et al.