Topic: Advanced Environmental Catalysis for Sustainable Pollution Control: Green Technologies, Mechanisms, and Applications

Atmospheric pollution poses a persistent global challenge with significant impacts on environmental quality, climate change, and human health. Developing efficient, sustainable, and scalable technologies for pollutant mitigation is essential for achieving global sustainability goals. Advanced environmental catalysis, including photocatalysis, thermocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and integrated catalytic systems, has emerged as a promising strategy for the removal, transformation, and valorization of diverse atmospheric pollutants.

Recent advances in nanostructured materials, porous catalysts, single-atom catalysts, and multifunctional catalytic platforms have enabled enhanced catalytic activity, selectivity, and stability through rational design of active sites and improved reaction pathways. Meanwhile, the integration of renewable energy, artificial intelligence-assisted catalyst discovery, and life-cycle assessment approaches provides new opportunities for developing next-generation green catalytic technologies.

This Special Issue aims to showcase recent innovations in environmental catalysis for sustainable pollution control, focusing on fundamental mechanisms, advanced materials, technological development, and practical applications. Contributions addressing catalytic strategies for air purification, pollutant conversion, carbon reduction, and environmentally responsible engineering solutions are particularly encouraged.

Special Issue Call for Papers

This Special Issue welcomes Original Research, Review, Mini Review, and Perspective articles addressing innovative environmental catalytic technologies for sustainable pollution control. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Design and synthesis of advanced environmental catalytic materials;

2. Photocatalytic, thermocatalytic, and electrocatalytic approaches for pollutant removal;

3. Catalytic degradation and transformation of VOCs, NO_x, SO_x, and emerging pollutants;

4. Nanostructured catalysts, porous materials, and single-atom catalytic systems;

5. Photo-thermal and multifunctional catalytic technologies for environmental applications;

6. Mechanistic understanding through experimental studies and computational modeling;

7. Catalyst stability, regeneration, and performance evaluation under realistic conditions;

8. Catalytic conversion, pollutant valorization, and resource recovery strategies;

9. Integration of catalytic technologies with renewable energy and low-carbon systems;

10. Environmental impact assessment, life-cycle analysis, and sustainable implementation of catalytic processes.

Environmental catalysis, sustainable pollution control, photocatalysis, thermocatalysis, electrocatalysis, VOCs degradation, air purification, green chemistry, advanced catalytic materials, low-carbon technologies.