The urgent need for sustainable energy technologies has stimulated extensive research on advanced carbon materials for energy storage, electrocatalysis, and electrosynthesis. Carbon-based materials offer unique advantages, including high surface area, excellent electrical conductivity, tunable porosity and nanostructures, rich surface chemistry, and versatile heteroatom doping. These features make them highly attractive for batteries, supercapacitors, electrocatalytic reactions, and emerging electrochemical synthesis processes. This special issue aims to highlight recent advances in the rational design, synthesis, characterization, and application of advanced carbon materials for sustainable energy storage and chemical production.

Scope and Topics:

This special issue invites original research articles, reviews, perspectives, and news and views that explore various aspects of sustainable carbon materials for energy storage, electrocatalysis and electrosynthesis.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Carbon materials for batteries, supercapacitors, and other energy-storage systems
• Carbon-based catalysts for electrocatalytic reactions, including HER, OER, ORR, CO₂ reduction, N₂ reduction, and NO_x conversion
• Carbon-enabled electrosynthesis of fuels, chemicals, and value-added products
• Advanced ex-situ, in-situ, and operando characterization of carbon materials and interfaces
• Theoretical modelling, simulations, and data-driven design of carbon materials for energy storage and electrocatalysis

Editors:

Prof. Dr. Fei Wei

Tsinghua University, China

https://www.chemeng.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1026/1129.htm

Prof. Dr. Zhigang Liu

Hunan University, China

https://grzy.hnu.edu.cn/site/index/carboncatal

Prof. Dr. Xianbiao Fu

National University of Singapore, Singapore

https://cde.nus.edu.sg/mse/staff/fu-xianbiao/

Submission Guide：

• Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts through the ScholarOne system (https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/cf)
• Submission deadline: 31 December, 2026
• Please choose “Advanced Carbon Materials for Energy Storage, Electrocatalysis and Electrosynthesis” in the article type during your submission
• All articles will be online as soon as they are accepted after peer-review
• Visit our official website to learn more: https://www.sciopen.com/journal/2960-0561

Contact：

Prof. Dr. Fei Wei, wf-dce@tsinghua.edu.cn;

Prof. Dr. Zhigang Liu, liuzhigang@hnu.edu.cn;

Prof. Dr. Xianbiao Fu, xbfu@nus.edu.sg；

Carbon Future editorial office: carbonfuture@tup.tsinghua.edu.cn