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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”.

Read the introductory editorial

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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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 are supporting HOPE-PV 2021

Sustainable Energy & Fuels are glad to support the 3rd International School on Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics, taking place in Chernogolovka, Russia and online from 22nd – 25th November 2021.

Register before the 20th November deadline

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International Solar Fuels Conference 2021

We are delighted to support the International Solar Fuels conference 2021, organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry in conjunction with the University of Grenoble and Uppsala University. This conference will take place online from the 26th – 29th July 2021.

The main conference will be preceded by the Young conference, which aims to give as many young researchers as possible the opportunity to present. This will also include keynote talks from mentoring experts, and careers advice from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The programme will explore all aspects of direct solar fuel production, combining biological, molecular and solid state approaches. The main themes include:

  • Multi-electron/multi-proton catalysis (homogeneous, heterogeneous, enzymatic and bioinspired processes)
  • Light-harvesting and light-driven processes
  • Photoelectrochemistry
  • Photobiological approaches
  • Metabolic engineering
  • Devices and demonstration: robustness, sustainability and upscale

Submit your oral abstract to the mainconference or the Young conference before 06 April 2021

Submit your poster abstract to the main conference or the Young conference by 7 June 2021

Find out more and register here

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New Themed Issue – Organic Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage

We are delighted to highlight the latest Sustainable Energy & Fuels themed issue on Organic Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage.

Guest Edited by Emilio Palomares (ICIQ and ICREA) and Juan Luis Delgado (Ikerbasque and Polymat), this issue showcases studies on the recent progress and challenges in the field of organic, inorganic and hybrid materials for energy conversion. This includes advances in photovoltaics, solar to fuels conversion, and catalysis for sustainable energy applications. You can read our Editorial introducing this issue here.

In addition to the Open Access articles in this issue, all articles are free to access until 28th February.

Below is a small selection of some of the articles featured in the issue:

A low temperature aqueous formate fuel cell using cobalt hexacyanoferrate as a non-noble metal oxidation catalyst

Lijuan Han, Jesús González-Cobos, Irene Sánchez-Molina, Stefano Giancola, Scott J. Folkman, S. Giménez, A. Vidal-Ferran and José Ramón Galán-Mascarós*

Proton trap effect on catechol–pyridine redox polymer nanoparticles as organic electrodes for lithium batteries

Antonela Gallastegui, Daniela Minudri, Nerea Casado, Nicolas Goujon, Fernando Ruipérez, Nagaraj Patil, Christophe Detrembleur, Rebeca Marcilla and David Mecerreyes*

Benzothiadiazole-based photosensitizers for efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells and 8.7% efficiency semi-transparent mini-modules

Maxime Godfroy, Johan Liotier, Valid M. Mwalukuku, Damien Joly, Quentin Huaulmé, Lydia Cabau, Cyril Aumaitre, Yann Kervella, Stéphanie Narbey, Frédéric Oswald, Emilio Palomares, Carlos A. González Flores, Gerko Oskam and  Renaud Demadrille*

The Effect of bulky electron-donating thioether substituents on the performances of Phthalocyanine based Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Mine Ince*, Ren Kuboi, Tuncay Ince, Kuon Yoshimura, Daiki Motoyoshi, Masahiro Sonobe, Ryota Kudo, Shogo Mori*, Mutsumi Kimura* and Tomás Torres*

Molecularly engineered thienyl-triphenylamine substituted zinc phthalocyanine as dopant free hole transporting materials in perovskite solar cells

Peng Huang, Adrián Hernández, Samrana Kazim, Javier Ortiz, Ángela Sastre-Santos* and Shahzada Ahmad*

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 the great research featured in this issue!Emilio Palomares and Juan Luis Delgado

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