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EDITORIAL

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Minhua Shao1 • Francesco Ciucci1,2 • Jiazhao Wang3

Received: 19 May 2016 / Accepted: 23 May 2016 / Published online: 31 May 2016

� Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

Electrochemical energy technologies have been considered

as clean and sustainable approaches to mitigating the more

and more serious global energy crisis. The widespread

adoption of electrochemical energy conversion and storage

devices, such as fuel cells, advanced batteries, photovoltaic

cells, supercapacitors, and electrolyzers, etc., has been

hindered by their high cost, low efficiency, short lifetime,

and insufficient energy/power densities. In order to

exchange and discuss recent research results, enhance

collaboration between research groups/industries, and

promote the commercialization of newly developed tech-

nologies, we organized an ISE Satellite Meeting on New

Devices for Energy Conversion and Storage at the Hong

Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

during October 1–3, 2015.

This conference was co-chaired by Profs. Guohua Chen

(HKUST), Christos Comninellis (Ecole Polytechnique

Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) and Gerardine Botte

(Ohio University, USA). Over 100 participants from 15

different countries attended this conference. Three plenary

lectures were delivered by Profs. Nenad Markovic (Ar-

gonne National Laboratory, USA), Jean-Marie Tarascon

(College de France, France) and Hubert Girault (Ecole

Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland). In

addition, 10 keynote lectures, 19 invited talks, 17 oral

presentations, and 20 poster presentations were given

during the conference. All the presentations were related to

one of the following electrochemical energy conversion

and storage devices: fuel cells, lithium (sodium)-ion bat-

teries, photovoltaic cells, electrolyzers, flow batteries,

supercapacitors and metal-air batteries. High quality papers

presented in the conference were selected and published in

this Special Issue of Journal of Applied Electrochemistry

after undergoing a rigorous peer-review process.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our

deep appreciation to the Organizing Committee including

Profs. Guohua Chen, Christos Comninellis, Gerardine

Botte, Minhua Shao (HKUST), Kwong Yu Chan (HKU),

Francesco Ciucci (HKUST), Haitao Huang (HK PolyU),

Jang Kyo Kim (HKUST), Quan Li (CUHK), Fude Liu

(HKU), Yi-Chun Lu (CUHK), Shihe Yang (HKUST),

Denis Yu (HK CityU), and Limin Zhou (HK PolyU). We

also want to thank Prof. Gerardine Botte and her editorial

team for helping organize this Special Issue.

& Minhua Shao
kemshao@ust.hk

1
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear

Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of

China

2
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hong

Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water

Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

3
Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials,

University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2500,

Australia

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