Welcome to the first issue of Energy & Environmental Science in 2011.
Please take a look at our New Year Editorial in this issue, which evaluates the progress the journal has made since launch, and looks forward to new developments over the year ahead.
We hope you enjoy reading all of the excellent articles in this issue, some highlights include:
Analysis article
Ionic liquids in the biorefinery: a critical assessment of their potential
Annegret Stark
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 19
Perspective
Catalytic routes for the conversion of biomass into liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels
Juan Carlos Serrano-Ruiz and James A. Dumesic
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 83
Research paper
Increasing the efficiency of zinc-phthalocyanine based solar cells through modification of the anchoring ligand
Miguel García-Iglesias, Juan-José Cid, Jun-Ho Yum, Amparo Forneli, Purificación Vázquez, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Emilio Palomares, Michael Grätzel and Tomás Torres
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 189
And much, much more!!
We invite you to submit some of your best work for publication in Energy & Environmental Science in the coming year.