Editorial: Advanced micro/nano materials for electrochemical energy conversion and application

Energy crises are serious threats to the survival and development of mankind and global organisms. Scientists are committed to developing new sustainable energy utilization. There is a huge amount of renewable energy in nature, including solar energy, geothermal energy, wind energy, tidal energy, bioenergy, and so on. How to transform and store these natural energies is the key to their wide industrial application, which is also an effective way to alleviate the energy crisis. In view of the rapidly rising global energy demand, efficient using these sustainable energies already become a global concern, and electrochemical energy technologies have become the research hotspots within the last 10 years. As the core of electrochemical energy technologies, materials with different microscopic chemical molecular structure and the physical micro/nano structure have received tremendous interest due to their unique mechanical/electrical and interfacial properties, which are the keys to realize the efficient and effective energy conversion and storage.