Preparation and Characterization of Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy Production

anotechnology has played an ex-tremely important role in the de-sign, synthesis, and characteriza-tion of various new and novel energy materials and catalysts for processing fuels from fossil fuel resources such as coal, pe-troleum, and natural gas. Today, fossil fuels still account for 90 % of the world’s energy consumption, and their use is expected to peak around the year 2050. The widespread use of fossil fuels is plagued with problems such as the generation of increasingly seri-ous environmental problems, the related climate changes we are witnessing, and the fact that the long-term availability of crud