Strategic development and discipline layout of energy chemistry of National Natural Science Foundation of China

In 2020, the research area of energy chemistry with the application code of B09 was founded in the Department of Chemical Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The aim is to lay a solid scientific foundation for fostering transformative energy technologies. In this paper, we will give an introduction to the strategic development and discipline layout of energy chemistry. The intension, objective and development trend of energy chemistry are defined in the 14th Five Year Plan & Mid-long Term Strategic Development. As an important step to push her development, the application code of energy chemistry needs to be optimized in accordance with the inherent logic and landscape of the knowledge system. The new application coding system is, thus, established on the basis of the strategic plan and the issues of current system. Eight secondary application codes under energy chemistry are listed as follows. B0901 chemistry of hydrogen energy: The chemical production, storage and conversion of hydrogen; B0902 chemistry of carbon energy: The chemical conversion of coal, oil, natural gas, syngas, carbon dioxide, biomass; B0903 chemistry of thermal energy: The conversion between thermal energy and chemical energy; B0904 chemistry of mechanical energy: The conversion between mechanical energy and chemical energy; B0905 chemistry of electrical energy: The conversion between electrical energy and chemical energy; B0906 chemistry of photo energy: The conversion between photo energy and chemical energy; B0907 energy chemistry in extreme environment: Chemical energy system under extreme conditions like high temperature, high pressure, strong radiation, highly corrosive condition, deep Earth, deep sea, deep space, etc.; B0908 chemistry of energy material: Materials chemistry for efficient energy conversion.