Renewable Energy, Storage & Sustainability
Within the Renewable Energy, Storage & Sustainability theme, this track brings together materials, devices, and system approaches that enable reliable renewable energy deployment and measurable sustainability gains. Emphasis is placed on performance under realistic operating conditions, durability, safety, and quantified environmental and economic impact.
Energy technologies increasingly require integrated perspectives that connect materials innovation to system-level constraints such as thermal management, degradation, safety, and circularity. We invite contributions on photovoltaics, hydrogen technologies, electrochemical storage and conversion, and catalytic or photocatalytic processes. Submissions that incorporate lifecycle assessment and techno-economic analysis, or that propose practical recycling and eco-design strategies, are especially encouraged to support deployable outcomes.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Photovoltaics and solar-thermal or thermal management concepts
- Hydrogen production, utilization, and storage systems
- Batteries, supercapacitors, and next-generation storage materials
- Fuel cells and electrochemical energy conversion devices
- Electrocatalysis and photocatalysis for energy applications
- Degradation mechanisms, durability, and long-term stability
- Safety, reliability, performance under realistic operating conditions
- Energy management and sustainability metrics
- Lifecycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic analysis (TEA)
- Circularity, eco-design, sustainable materials strategies
- Recycling, critical materials, and scale-up constraints