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

23 Nov 2021

Sustainable Energy & Fuels Editorial Board members David Mitlin and Xinchen Wang have been recognized as 2021 Clarivate^TMHighly 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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Announcing the new Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Energy & Fuels – Garry Rumbles

05 Mar 2021

Garry Rumbles is a Senior Research Fellow in the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and an adjoint Professor of Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder. More widely, he is the Associate Director for Research in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), a joint energy institute between NREL and the University, and holds a visiting Professorial Chair at Imperial College, London. Garry is a photochemist and physical chemist whose research focusses on the harvesting of solar energy for the production of electricity, fuels and chemicals in molecular and polymeric systems.

“With a view to increasing the diversity of editors, contributors, advisory board, and readers, I’m excited to work to further build the reputation of Sustainable Energy & Fuels in the energy and chemistry space” – Garry Rumbles

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our previous, and founding, Editor-in-Chief, Professor James Durrant, for his service to the journal. James says: “As Editor-in-Chief I am proud to have overseen the establishment and growth of Sustainable Energy & Fuels since its launch four years ago and am delighted that Garry Rumbles is now taking over the role. I very much look forward to seeing the journal develop further under his excellent leadership.”

Garry has selected some of his favourite research from the past year to share with you. Read these papers now for free until the end of March 2021:

Interfacial analysis of a PEM electrolyzer using X-ray computed tomography
Emily Leonard, Andrew D. Shum, Nemanja Danilovic, Christopher Capuano, Katherine E. Ayers, Lalit M. Pant, Adam Z. Weber, Xianghui Xiao, Dilworth Y. Parkinson and Iryna V. Zenyuk*

How one-photon can induce water splitting into hydrogen peroxide and hydrogen by aluminum porphyrins. Rationale of the thermodynamics
Fazalurahman Kuttassery, Siby Mathew, Hiroshi Tachibanaa and Haruo Inoue*

Determining the sequence and backbone structure of “semi-statistical” copolymers as donor–acceptor polymers in organic solar cells
Samuel S. Lawton, Daniel Warr, Luís M. A. Perdigão, Yujing Chang, Agnieszka Pron, Giovanni Costantini ORCID and David M. Haddleton*

Effect of synthesis pH and EDTA on iron hexacyanoferrate for sodium-ion batteries
Zachary G. Neale, Chaofeng Liu and Guozhong Cao*

Recent advances of nonprecious and bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting
Xiao Shang, Jian-Hong Tang, Bin Dong* and Yujie Sun*

From non-innocent to guilty: on the role of redox-active ligands in the electro-assisted reduction of CO2 mediated by a cobalt(ii)-polypyridyl complex
N. Queyriaux,* K. Abel, J. Fize, J. Pécaut, M. Orio* and L. Hammarström*

Theoretical insights into the factors affecting the electrochemical reduction of CO2
Azeem Mustafa, Bachirou Guene Lougou,* Yong Shuai,* Zhijiang Wang, Samia Razzaq, Jiupeng Zhao and Heping Tana

Mechanisms of photoredox catalysts: the role of optical spectroscopy
Noufal Kandoth,* Javier Pérez Hernández, Emilio Palomares and Julio Lloret-Fillol*

We hope that you enjoy reading these papers, and please join us in welcoming Garry as he leads Sustainable Energy & Fuels to continued success.

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Introducing Sustainable Energy & Fuels Associate Editor: Annamaria Petrozza

28 Feb 2019

Annamaria Petrozza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy

Annamaria Petrozza is a Tenured Senior Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). She was awarded a Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering at Ecole Supèrieure d’Electricité (Paris, France) in 2003 and at Politecnico di Milano in 2014 under the T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Manager in Europe) program. In 2008 she received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) with a thesis on the study of optoelectronic processes at organic and hybrid semiconductors interfaces, under the supervision of Prof J.S Kim and Prof Sir R.H. Friend. From 2008 to 2009 she worked as staff scientist at the Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd (Oxford, UK) on the development of new market competitive solar cell technologies. In 2010 she joined the newly founded Center for Nano Science and Technology (CNST) of IIT in Milan. Since 2013 she leads the “Advanced Materials for Optoelectronics” Research Line at CNST. Her research is focused on the development of new, sustainable, optoelectronic technologies which can be extensively integrated in the everyday life. She is an expert in solution processable semiconductors and in time-resolved optical spectroscopy. Her studies mainly aims to shed light on interfacial optoelectronic mechanisms, which are fundamental for the optimization of operational processes, with the goal of improving device efficiency and stability. She got the “Innovators Under 35 Italy 2014” award by the MIT Technology Review for her pioneering work on perovskites. She is a 2017 ERCcoG grantee.

Submit your best sustainable energy and fuels research to Annamaria Petrozza now!

Read Annamaria’s recent work here:

Enhanced solar cell stability by hygroscopic polymer passivation of metal halide perovskite thin film
Min Kim, Silvia G. Motti, Roberto Sorrentino and Annamaria Petrozza
Energy Environ. Sci., 2018,11, 2609-2619 – doi.org/10.1039/C8EE01101J

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Introducing Sustainable Energy & Fuels Associate Editor: Professor Andrea Kruse

13 Nov 2018

Andrea Kruse, University Hohenheim, Germany

ORCiD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8156-139X

Andrea Kruse has studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and specialized in Chemical Engineering. After and during her PhD, she worked in the Research Centre Karlsruhe, now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the field of hydrothermal biomass conversion, mainly. She did her Habilitation with her studies in Supercritical Water Gasification at the Technical University Darmstadt, getting the “venia legendi” in chemical engineering.

Since 2012, she is holding the chair of Conversion Technologies of Biobased Resources at University of Hohenheim. Her main activities are the production of platform chemicals and materials from biomass, and the development of advanced separation processes for biorefineries. The focus is here to develop the whole value chain “from the field to the product”.

Submit your best sustainable energy and fuels research to Andrea Kruse now!

Read Andrea’s recent work here:

The effect of different Brønsted acids on the hydrothermal conversion of fructose to HMF. Paul Körner, Dennis Jung and Andrea Kruse. Green Chem., 2018, 20, 2231-2241. DOI: 10.1039/C8GC00435H

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Editor-in-Chief Professor James Durrant awarded Fellow of the Royal Society

08 Jun 2017

Congratulations to Sustainable Energy & Fuels Editor-in-Chief Professor James Durrant, recently honored as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the UK and the Commonwealth. Fellows and Foreign Members are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science.

Candidates selected by the existing Fellowship must have made ‘a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science’.

Highlighting Professor James Durrant’s research in the photochemistry of new materials for solar energy conversion – targeting both solar cells (photovoltaics) and solar to fuel (i.e.: artificial photosynthesis), Sustainable Energy & Fuels is delighted that the Royal Society Fellowship have honored our Editor-in-Chief.

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Materials for Solar Energy Conversion Symposium

28 Mar 2017

10 am – 6 pm, Wednesday 26th April
Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London

This symposium is the first event to be hosted jointly by the Solar Fuels Network and the EPSRC solar energy consortium, SuperSolar. The aim of the meeting is to bring the UK PV and solar fuels communities together to discuss shared interests around fundamental aspects of materials for solar energy conversion. The symposium will feature invited presentations from research leaders in both fields.

Invited speakers:
Professor Mark van Schilfgaarde, King’s College London
Professor Andy Cooper, University of Liverpool
Professor Neil Robertson, University of Edinburgh
Professor Upul Wijayantha, Loughborough University
Professor David Fermin, Bristol University
Professor James Durrant, Imperial College London
Dr Elizabeth Gibson, Newcastle University
Professor Jenny Nelson, Imperial College London
Dr Erwin Reisner, University of Cambridge

Registration is free. For more information, registration and poster abstract submission visit the website.

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CPE/Sustainable Energy & Fuels Symposium

28 Mar 2017

Sustainable Energy & Fuels is delighted to host a joint symposium with the Centre for Plastic Electronics at Imperial College London. Organised by Editor-in-Chief James Durrant, it features talks from three of our Associate Editors on new materials for solar energy conversion.

Garry Rumbles (NREL, USA)
“Microwave Conductivity Studies of Mobile Carriers in Conjugated Polymers and Solar Perovskites”

Vincent Artero (CEA Grenoble, France)
“Molecular-based H₂-evolving photocathodes”

Ryu Abe (Kyoto University, Japan)
“Visible Light Responsive Photocatalysts toward Solar Hydrogen Production”

The symposium will be held at 2–5 pm on Thursday 30th March at the Pippard Lecture Theatre (Level 5, Sherfield Building), South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London. A refreshments and networking session will follow.

Register now! Registration is free – please contact Steph Pendlebury (s.pendlebury@imperial.ac.uk).

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New Sustainable Energy & Fuels Associate Editors: David Mitlin and Nam-Gyu Park

09 Feb 2017

We are delighted to welcome David Mitlin and Nam-Gyu Park as Sustainable Energy & Fuels Associate Editors.

David Mitlin, Clarkson University, USA
David Mitlin is a Professor and General Electric Chair at Clarkson University, USA. Dr. Mitlin’s appointment is jointly in the Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Prior to that, Dr. Mitlin was an Assistant, Associate and full Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received a Doctorate in Materials Science from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, and was a Directors Funded Post Doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Mitlin has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles primary on various aspects of energy storage and conversion, with a major emphasis on applied TEM for microstructure – properties relations. He holds 4 granted patents 3 of which are licensed, and has presented around 100 invited, keynote or plenary talks. He has supervised and graduated 14 Ph.D. students, 6 M.S. students and 8 post docs.

Nam-Gyu Park, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Nam-Gyu Park is professor and SKKU-Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering and adjunct professor at Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from Seoul National University in 1988, 1992 and 1995, respectively. He worked at ICMCB-CNRS, France, from 1996 to 1997 and at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, from 1997 to 1999 as postdoctoral researchers. He worked as Director of Solar Cell Research Center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) from 2005 to 2009 and as a principal scientist at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) from 2000 to 2005 before joining Sungkyunkwan University as a full professor in 2009. He has been doing researches on high efficiency mesoscopic solar cells including perovskite solar cell and dye-sensitized solar cell since 1997. He is pioneer in solid state perovskite solar cell, which was first developed in 2012. He received awards, including Scientist Award of the Month (MEST, Korea), KyungHyang Electricity and Energy Award (KEPCO, Korea), KIST Award of the Year (KIST, Korea) and Dupont Science and Technology Award (Dupont Korea), SKKU fellowship, and MRS Outstanding Research Award (MRS, Boston), WCPEC Paper Award (Kyoto, Japan), Hamakawa Award of PVSEC (Busan, Korea) and KAST Engineering Award (KAST, Korea). He published over 220 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy and Nature Communications, 80 patent applications, 1 book editor, 7 book chapters. He received H-index of 66 as of January, 2017.

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Introducing the Sustainable Energy & Fuels Advisory Board

20 Dec 2016

Sustainable Energy & Fuels is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Advisory Board Members. The new members have been listed below by their general research interests.

Please join us in congratulating them all on their appointment to the Sustainable Energy & Fuels Advisory Board!

Bioenergy		Carbon capture, storage and utilisation
Christoph Brabec	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany	Robert Mokaya	University of Nottingham, UK
Anne Jones	Arizona State University, USA	Xiulian Pan	Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Johannes Messinger	Uppsala University, Sweden

Catalysis for energy technologies		Fuel cells
Cyrille Costentin	Univ Paris 7, France	Liangti Qu	Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Osamu Ishitani	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan	Uwe Schroder	TU-Braunschweig, Germany
		Aron Walsh	University of Bath, UK

Energy storage
Chunmei Ban	National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA	Shirley Meng	University of California, San Diego, USA
Jaephil Cho	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	Volker Presser	Saarland University, Denmark
Marie-Liesse Doublet	CNRS and Université Montpellier, France	Amy Prieto	Colorado State University, USA
Kisuk Kang	Seoul National University, South Korea	Srinivasan Sampath	Indian Institute of Science, India

Solar Energy conversion
Juan Bisquert	Jaume I University, Spain	Satishchandra Ogale	CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, India
Seth Darling	Argonne National Laboratory, USA	Emilio Palomares	Catalan Institute of Chemical Research, Spain
Benjamin Dietzek	Jena Institte of photonics, Germany	Alissa Park	Columbia University, USA
Heinz Frei	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA	Erin Ratcliff	University of Arizona, USA
Elizabeth Gibson	University of Newcastle, UK	Moritz Riede	University of Oxford, UK
Anders Hagfeldt	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland	Junwang Tang	University College London, UK
Justin Hodgkiss	Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand	Roel van de Krol	Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany
Libai Huang	Purdue University, USA	Koen Vandewal	Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Frédéric Laquai	KAUST, Saudi Arabia	Xinchen Wang	Fuzhou University, China
Chris McNeill	Monash University, Australia	Michael Wasielewski	Northwestern University, USA

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