Hybrid Ion Capacitors: new themed collection in Sustainable Energy & Fuels

A collection showcasing the latest developments towards hybrid ion capacitors

Sustainable Energy & Fuels is pleased to present our Hybrid Ion Capacitors themed collection. Guest edited by Marta Sevilla (Instituto Nacional del Carbón – CSIC, Spain), Vanchiappan Aravindan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, India), Martin Oschatz (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany) and Konstantin Schutjajew (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany), Sustainable Energy & Fuels is proud to highlight the latest developments in this area.

Hybrid ion capacitors are considered a promising next-generation charge-storage device owing to their combined features of both rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors, i.e., high energy and high-power capability. These devices stand out by their tunable performance characteristics and a broad range of possibly applicable materials. Many congratulations to all the featured researchers!

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The Guest Editors introduce this collection in their Editorial titled “Shaping the future of hybrid ion capacitors”.

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All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of January 2024. We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to seeing how this field progresses! Please continue to submit your impactful work to Sustainable Energy & Fuels.

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Introducing Sustainable Energy & Fuels’ newest Editorial Board member, Tharamani C. Nagaiah

We are delighted to introduce the newest member of the Sustainable Energy & Fuels Editorial Board, Dr Tharamani C. Nagaiah.

Thara is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India. She holds a PhD degree from Bangalore University and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and an AvH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Her research interests include the design and development of new materials with a focus on energy conversion/storage and biosensing applications, and in-depth fundamental analysis of the newly designed electrocatalysts by various electrochemical, spectroscopic, microscopic, and scanning probe techniques.

She is a recipient of several prestigious fellowships such as the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Germany, and the Ramanujan Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry admitted through the “Leaders in the field” scheme and an elected Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society. She is a recipient of the CRSI-Bronze Medal 2023 from the Chemical Research Society of India and the Silver Medal of CRS 2023 from the Society Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha, as well as the ECSI National Metrohm Award 2023 from the Electrochemical Society of India and the A.V. Rama Rao prize for Women 2024 from the Chemical Research Society of India.

Please join us in welcoming Thara to the Sustainable Energy & Fuels Editorial Board!

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Biorefining: new themed collection in Sustainable Energy & Fuels

A collection highlighting excellent energy research being carried out by the global biorefining community.

Sustainable Energy & Fuels is pleased to present our Biorefining themed collection. Guest Edited by George W. Huber (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Muxina Konarova (University of Queensland, Australia), Jason Y. C. Lim (A*STAR, NUS, Singapore), and Karen Wilson (Griffith University, Australia) this collection spans, but is not limited to, biomass/waste pre-treatment, bio-derived materials, bio-derived chemicals, and advanced biofuels research. Many congratulations to all the featured researchers on their important work so far in the field!

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The Guest Editors introduce this collection in their Editorial titled “Harnessing the power of biorefining: paving the way for sustainable fuels and chemicals”.

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All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of September 2023. We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to seeing how this field progresses! Please continue to submit your exciting work on Biorefining to Sustainable Energy & Fuels.

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Themed collection on ‘Solar Fuels and Chemicals: Photocatalytic Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction’ is open for submissions

Our latest themed collection highlighting Solar Fuels and Chemicals: Photocatalytic Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction is guest edited by Profs. Ryu Abe (Kyoto University), Kazunari Domen (The University of Tokyo), Osamu Ishitani (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Yun Hau Ng (City University of Hong Kong).

This collection aims to showcase the recent advances in the field of photocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction, with a focus on solar-driven production of clean fuels and chemicals. The wide range of topics covered include semiconductor materials chemistry, photoelectrochemistry, nanotechnology, co-catalysts with high selectivity, molecular catalyst chemistry, spectroscopy, theoretical study and system design for practical applications. All manuscripts must also fall within the scope of the journal, and meet the journal’s usual quality criteria as outlined on our webpage.

For more information on the collection, which closes for submissions on the 30th November 2023, see our open call for papers.

All articles included in the collection will be made free to access for one month after publication and benefit from promotion via our social media channels.

When you publish with Sustainable Energy & Fuelsyou can:

  • Put your trust in both our rigorous peer review process and fast times to publication – with a medium time to first decision for peer reviewed manuscripts of 28 days
  • Benefit from Open Access publishing options
  • Be confident of the global energy audience for your work

Article publication online and in issues will occur without delay to ensure the timely dissemination of the work. The articles will then be assembled on the RSC Publishing platform and promoted as a web-based thematic collection, to permit readers to consult and download individual contributions from the entire series.

If you’re interested in contributing to this themed collection, submit your research today and please add the themed collection code “SEWATER23” when prompted at submission. If you have any questions about the collection, please do get in touch with the Editorial Office.

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New submission deadline – Themed collection on Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics Stability

Our themed collection highlighting Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics Stability is guest edited by Profs. Francesca Brunetti, Vida Engmann, Morten Madsen and David M. Tanenbaum.

This collection will showcase recent progress and challenges in the field of stability for hybrid, organic and perovskite photovoltaics. The scope of the collection is broad, and we welcome all submissions on photovoltaics stability which provide insights regarding future directions towards more stable and sustainable technologies. All manuscripts must also fall within the scope of the journal and meet the journal’s usual quality criteria as outlined on our webpage.

For more information on the collection, see our open call for papers. The deadline for submissions has now been extended to the 30th of September 2023.

All articles included in the collection will be made free to access for one month after publication and benefit from promotion via our social media channels.

When you publish with Sustainable Energy & Fuels, you can:

  • Put your trust in both our rigorous peer review process and fast times to publication – with a medium time to first decision for peer reviewed manuscripts of 28 days
  • Benefit from Open Access publishing options
  • Be confident of the global energy audience for your work when publishing in the RSC’s energy journal family which includes Energy & Environmental Science and EES Catalysis.

Article publication online and in issues will occur without delay to ensure the timely dissemination of the work. The articles will then be assembled on the RSC Publishing platform and promoted as a web-based thematic collection, to permit readers to consult and download individual contributions from the entire series.

If you’re interested, submit your research today, mentioning that the work is a contribution to the Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics Stability collection when submitting your manuscript.

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Sustainable Energy & Fuels Emerging Investigators Series

A collection highlighting the rising stars of energy research

Sustainable Energy & Fuels is proud to present our Emerging Investigators Series, highlighting the very best work from researchers in the early stages of their independent careers. The collection showcases research from early career energy scientists who are working to make energy technologies more sustainable, in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 and the scope of Sustainable Energy & Fuels. Many congratulations to all the featured researchers on their important work so far in the field!

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We hope you enjoy reading these articles. The collection is ongoing so if you meet our requirements and would like to contribute, please do get in touch.

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Themed collection on Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics Stability is open for submissions

Our themed collection highlighting Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics Stability is guest edited by Profs. Francesca Brunetti, Vida Engmann, Morten Madsen and David M. Tanenbaum.

This collection will showcase recent progress and challenges in the field of stability for hybrid, organic and perovskite photovoltaics. The scope of the collection is broad, and we welcome all submissions on photovoltaics stability which provide insights regarding future directions towards more stable and sustainable technologies. All manuscripts must also fall within the scope of the journal and meet the journal’s usual quality criteria as outlined on our webpage.

For more information on the collection, which closes for submissions on the 1st July 2023, see our open call for papers.

All articles included in the collection will be made free to access for one month after publication and benefit from promotion via our social media channels.

When you publish with Sustainable Energy & Fuels, you can:

  • Put your trust in both our rigorous peer review process and fast times to publication – with a medium time to first decision for peer reviewed manuscripts of 28 days
  • Benefit from Open Access publishing options
  • Be confident of the global energy audience for your work when publishing in the RSC’s energy journal family which includes Energy & Environmental Science and EES Catalysis.

Article publication online and in issues will occur without delay to ensure the timely dissemination of the work. The articles will then be assembled on the RSC Publishing platform and promoted as a web-based thematic collection, to permit readers to consult and download individual contributions from the entire series.

If you’re interested, submit your research today, mentioning that the work is a contribution to the Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics Stability collection when submitting your manuscript.

 

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Introducing our newest Advisory Board members

We are delighted to welcome nine new members to the Sustainable Energy & Fuels Advisory Board!

Introducing Dr Jessica Allen, (University of Newcastle, Australia), Dr Susan Habas (NREL, USA), Dr Lieve Laurens (NREL, USA), Prof. Annamma Anil Odaneth (ICT Mumbai, India), Dr Jude Onwudili (Aston University, UK), Prof. Martin Oschatz (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany), Dr Wendy Shaw (PNNL, USA), Prof. Adalgisa Sinicropi, (University of Siena, Italy) and Prof. Yan Yao, (University of Houston, USA) our latest Advisory Board members.

The Sustainable Energy & Fuels Advisory Board is comprised of leading researchers from across the breadth of energy science, who support the journal as reviewers and authors, providing strategic feedback and acting as advocates in the community. Meet our full Editorial and Advisory Boards on our webpage: https://rsc.li/energy-fuels and find out a bit more about our newest Advisory Board members below, alongside examples of their research.

Pictured left to right: Dr Jessica Allen, Dr Susan Habas, Dr Lieve Laurens, Prof. Annamma Anil Odaneth and Dr Jude Onwudili. 

 

Pictured left to right: Prof. Martin Oschatz, Dr Wendy Shaw, Prof. Adalgisa Sinicropi, and Prof. Yan Yao

 

Dr Jessica Allen, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia, combines expertise in electrochemistry and engineering with interests spanning low emission energy technologies as well as renewable energy, carbon capture and utilisation and energy storage (both thermal and electrochemical).

Read some of Jessica’s work in Sustainable Energy & Fuels: The impact of carbonate salts on char formation and gas evolution during the slow pyrolysis of biomass, cellulose, and lignin

Dr Susan Habas, Senior Scientist in the Catalytic Carbon Transformation and Scale-up Center at NREL, works in nanoscience and materials chemistry, looking at the design, synthesis, and characterization of nanostructured catalysts, surface chemistry for selective chemical transformations, scalable methods for solution-phase nanomaterials synthesis and the production of premium fuels and chemicals from biomass.

Read some of Susan’s work: An investigation into support cooperativity for the deoxygenation of guaiacol over nanoparticle Ni and Rh2P

Dr Lieve Laurens is a group leader and senior scientist at NREL, researching bioenergy-relevant biomass. In particular, she works in algal biomass, with a focus on analytical biochemistry, biomass composition, conversion and valorization.

Read some of Lieve’s work in Sustainable Energy & Fuels: Bioproducts from high-protein algal biomass: an economic and environmental sustainability review and risk analysis

Prof. Annamma Anil Odaneth works at the Center of Energy Biosciences at ICT Mumbai. Her research looks at product development through biocatalytic processes, and biocatalysts for valorisation of wastes and processed wastes.

Dr Jude Onwudili leads a Sustainable Chemicals laboratory at Aston University. His work touches upon hydrothermal processing of biomass and organic wastes; catalysis & applied catalysis for fuel & chemicals; thermochemical (pyrolysis, liquefaction and gasification ) conversion of biomass, algae and plastic waste and more.

Read some of Jude’s work: Catalytic depolymerization of alkali lignin in subcritical water: influence of formic acid and Pd/C catalyst on the yields of liquid monomeric aromatic products

Prof. Martin Oschatz of Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany, researches the chemistry of materials for energy applications. His group works across porous materials and interfacial phenomena, electrochemical energy storage and electrocatalysis.

Read some of Martin’s work in Sustainable Energy & Fuels: Controlling the strength of interaction between carbon dioxide and nitrogen-rich carbon materials by molecular design

Dr Wendy Shaw, Chief Science and Technology Officer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, designs catalysts for renewable energy which mimic features of enzymes.

Read some of Wendy’s work in Sustainable Energy & Fuels: Chicken fat for catalysis: a scaffold is as important for molecular complexes for energy transformations as it is for enzymes in catalytic function

Prof. Adalgisa Sinicropi, University of Siena, is a computational chemist focused on the design and characterization by means of computational methods and life cycle analysis of innovative materials for the production of new generation photovoltaics characterized by high efficiency, stability and with high environmental added value.

Read some of Adalgisa’s work in Sustainable Energy & Fuels: D–A–π–A organic dyes with tailored green light absorption for potential application in greenhouse-integrated dye-sensitized solar cells

Prof. Yan Yao at the University of Houston, works on the design and synthesis of materials and architectures to address new challenges arising in the applications of energy storage and conversion. Their group studies a broad range of materials including two-dimensional materials, inorganic nanostructures, organic crystals, polymers, and organic/inorganic hybrid materials.

Read some of Yan’s work: Benchmarks of the density functional tight-binding method for redox, protonation and electronic properties of quinones

The Editorial team extends a warm welcome to all our new Advisory Board members, we are very much looking forward to working with everyone.

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Announcing new Associate Editor: Carsten Streb

We are delighted to announce that Professor Carsten Streb has joined the Sustainable Energy & Fuels Editorial Board as an Associate Editor.

Carsten Streb is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Ulm University and Group Leader at Helmholtz Institute Ulm as well as management board member of the Collaborative Research Center TRR 234 CataLight. He received his undergraduate degree from TU Kaiserslautern, undertook a PhD at the University of Glasgow before starting his independent career at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg. Carsten is an inorganic supramolecular chemist with a broad interest in materials design for energy conversion and storage. His research is focused on developing chemical solutions to urgent global challenges. In this context, his group designs technologically relevant materials for solar energy conversion, (photo-)electrocatalysis and battery materials.

Read his recent work in Sustainable Energy & Fuels:

Polymeric carbon nitride coupled with a molecular thiomolybdate catalyst: exciton and charge dynamics in light-driven hydrogen evolution
Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2020,4, 6085-6095

Organic linkage controls the photophysical properties of covalent photosensitizer–polyoxometalate hydrogen evolution dyads
Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2020,4, 4688-4693

 

 

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Sustainable Energy & Fuels Editorial Board members recognized as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers

Sustainable Energy & Fuels Editorial Board members David Mitlin and Xinchen Wang have been recognized as 2021 ClarivateTM Highly Cited Researchers.

David Mitlin

Dr David Mitlin is a David Allen Cockrell Endowed Professor at the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that, he was a Professor and General Electric Chair at Clarkson University, and an Assistant, Associate and full Professor at the University of Alberta. Dr. Mitlin has published about 150 peer-reviewed journal articles on various aspects of energy storage and conversion materials. This work is cited at near 2000 times per year. Dr. Mitlin holds 5 granted U.S. patents and 9 more pending full applications, with all of them licensed currently or in the past. He has presented 125 invited, keynote and plenary talks at various international conferences. Dr. Mitlin is an Associate Editor for Sustainable Energy and Fuels, a Royal Society of Chemistry Journal focused on renewables. Dave received a Doctorate in Materials Science from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, M.S. from Penn State in 1996, and B.S. from RPI in 1995. He grew up in upstate NY and in southern CT.

Read his recent research:

Selenium infiltrated hierarchical hollow carbon spheres display rapid kinetics and extended cycling as lithium metal battery (LMB) cathodes

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021,9, 18582-18593

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TA04705A

Lithium-activated SnS–graphene alternating nanolayers enable dendrite-free cycling of thin sodium metal anodes in carbonate electrolyte

Energy Environ. Sci., 2021,14, 382-395

https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EE02423F

 

Xinchen Wang

Professor Xinchen Wang obtained his BSc and MSc at Fuzhou University and acquired his PhD at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He began his Professorship at Fuzhou University at 2005 and in 2006 moved to The University of Tokyo as a JSPS Postdoctoral fellow. Professor Wang later attended the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, where he held the role of group leader between 2008 and 2012. He is currently the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment and the Dean of the College of Chemistry at Fuzhou University, China. Professor Wang has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of catalysis and photocatalysis.

 

Read his recent research:

H2 and CH4 production from bio-alcohols using condensed poly(heptazine imide) with visible light

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, Advance Article

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TA08578F

Boron carbonitride photocatalysts for direct decarboxylation: the construction of C(sp3)–N or C(sp3)–C(sp2) bonds with visible light

Green Chem., 2021,23, 3945-3949

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1GC00922B

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