Sustainable Design and Fabrication of Nanomaterials and Micro-Devices

Global demand for resources is increasing significantly due to amazing technological developments and an increasing world population. The need for sustainable design, preparation and use of energy, materials and devices is urgent. For example, the use of sustainable energy sources to replace traditional fossil fuels; Design environmentally friendly materials with biocompatibility to replace traditional toxic or highly polluting materials; Preparation of low-power microdevices with self-drive technology; Design advanced materials and sophisticated, efficient device structures to dramatically improve device performance. The development of advanced technologies based on the concept of sustainability will promote the progress of science and technology worldwide.

This research topic seeks original and innovative contributions to solve the problems of sustainable design, preparation and use of energy, materials and devices. We hope to achieve breakthroughs in the fields of nanomaterials, advanced functional devices, micro-energy and micro-devices, and manufacture self-driven or low-power devices relying on sustainable energy, advanced materials and MEMS processing technology. To achieve sustainable manufacturing and use of equipment.

1. Sustainable energy technology (advanced micro-energy technology, advanced fuel cell technology, etc.)
2. Energy security and sustainable development (hydrogen energy preparation, storage, transportation technology, CO2 fixation and degradation technology, etc.)
3. Design and preparation of sustainable nanomaterials (including but not limited to the design and preparation of environmentally friendly functional materials that can replace traditional toxic or highly polluting materials)
4. Applications of sustainable nanomaterials (including but not limited to advanced sensors and energy materials)
5. Sustainable preparation of micro-devices (high-performance low-power functional material devices, MEMS microstructures and micro-devices, etc.)
6. Sustainable use of micro-devices (self-driven technology and self-driven devices, devices prepared by bionic or biointegrated technology, etc.)
7. Device design or simulation tools to help create and evaluate sustainable devices