Themed collection Sustainable Energy & Fuels 2026 Review Articles

Low-carbon liquid fuels (LCLFs) offer a scalable solution to decarbonise heavy transport, maintaining energy security and compatibility with existing infrastructure.

Experimental measurements of binary gas thermal diffusion complement thermodynamic equilibrium modeling of hydrogen-containing gas mixtures, providing insight into how temperature and gravity affect underground hydrogen storage.

The Table-of-Contents (TOC) figure illustrates the design strategies, working mechanisms, and application prospects of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)-based hybrid energy harvesting systems.

This review provides the latest developments in the application of zeolites for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass and its derivatives into biofuels.

Heterostructured electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution: interface engineering via electronic, strain, and synergistic effects.

This review highlights catalyst design for CO₂ reduction, focusing on active-site engineering, hybrid architectures, operando insights, and reactor integration to enable scalable, energy-efficient CO₂ valorization.

This review highlights key advances in flexible SIBs, focusing on anode and cathode materials, electrolytes, and electrolyte–electrode interfaces, with emphasis on flexibility and sodium-ion insertion/diffusion mechansim.

This review links zinc dendrite thermodynamics and kinetics with electrolyte, interphase, and structural design strategies to realize dendrite-free, highly reversible zinc anodes for durable, high-areal-capacity aqueous batteries.

This review summarizes moisture-enabled energy harvesting mechanisms, materials, and hybrid systems, highlighting their advances in ionic transport, hydrovoltaic effects, and integrated energy storage for self-powered applications.

Comparison between conventional solvent extraction and hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent (HDES) systems for lithium recovery from spent batteries, illustrating drawbacks of traditional solvents and potential benefits of HDES-based extraction.

Developing highly efficient and low-cost electrocatalysts for sustainable HER remains a critical challenge, as non-precious metal alternatives to platinum are often limited by insufficient catalytic activity and structural instability.

Porous materials show high H₂ uptake via physisorption at cryogenic temperatures, while ambient storage remains limited. To get reliable storage capacity, H₂ reproducibility, and standardized measurements are critical for realistic performance.

Perovskite quantum dots confined in a MOF-derived N-doped carbon framework create highly active, stable catalytic sites, delivering efficient bifunctional HER and ORR performance through synergistic electronic and structural effects.

An overview of advanced g-C₃N₄-based photocatalysts highlighting structural design strategies and their promising roles in environmental remediation and energy conversion.

Core–shell nanofibers have diverse applications, including drug delivery, water purification, tissue engineering, and sensor technologies, highlighting their multifunctional potential in both biomedical and environmental fields.

Nanoceramics, which have nanoscale structural units and remarkable mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties, are providing transformative benefits for energy systems of the future.

This review provides recent advances in OER activity of quadruple perovskite oxides (QPOs). Synthesis methods and characterization techniques of QPOs electrocatalysts are described. Their prospects and future challenges are also discussed.

Schematic illustration of the synthesis and modification methods of SFM double perovskite oxides, and their applications as high-performance electrocatalysts for CO₂ electrolysis using renewable energy sources.

Exploring bimetallic active sites in electrocatalysts: linking electronic structure, active site design, and reaction mechanisms for efficient HER and OER performance.

In recent years, MXenes have achieved remarkable progress in catalysis owing to their distinctive physicochemical properties, such as excellent electrical conductivity, tunable surface functional groups, and unique layered structures.

The increasing demand for advanced energy storage in applications like wearable electronics, electric vehicles, and renewable technologies encourages the growth of advanced supercapacitor materials.

This review categorizes lithium battery electrolyte additives by composition, chemical structure, function, and properties, highlighting their critical role in enhancing energy density, cycle life, and safety.

π-Conjugated spiro-based hole transport materials (HTMs) are critically reviewed for their structure–efficiency–stability relationships in perovskite solar cells (PSCs).

Manganese dioxide (MnO₂) has demonstrated significant potential in electrochemical energy storage and catalytic applications due to its low cost, environmental friendliness, and polymorphic structures.

This paper systematically reviews how aviation kerosene's composition affects its properties, analyzes Fischer–Tropsch specifications in ASTM D7566, and offers a summary and outlook on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) trends.

This review provides various aspects of capturing CMM to address global environmental issues. Different separration methods were summarized for reducing coal mine methane emissions, which benefits the mining industry and contributes to a low-carbon economy.

A comprehensive review on the advantageous perspective of magnetic field induced catalytic water splitting and CO₂ conversion.

This review deals with promising CuSe semiconductor materials, their synthesis and applications as advanced energy materials.