Special topic on strategies for developing energy-related physical chemistry

• 来源期刊: 中国科学:化学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（11）
• 页码范围: 1377-1378
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1007/s11426-017-9157-1

摘要

Increasing global energy demand and environment issue have pushed us to develop technologies for efficient utilization of fossil fuels and also seek for renewable energy resources.Chemistry plays a crucial role in the acquisition,generation,distribution,and utilization of energy in different forms although it is not the only contributing subject.Currently,fossil fuels are the primary source to provide the majority of the world's energy.While the efficient utilization of fossil fuels requires deep understanding of the energy transformation processes associated with the breaking and reorganization of chemical bonds,the use of many renewable energy resources often involves chemical transformations with electron transfer.For these reasons,energy chemistry has been recently emerging as a new interdisciplinary area to address chemistry issues associated with energy technologies.