Energy & Environmental Science has been highlighted in Thomson Reuters Science Watch as a Rising Star in the field of Environment & Ecology. EES has an Impact Factor of 9.45 making it the the #1 ranked journal in its field.
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This month sees the following articles in EES that are in the top ten most accessed in February:
Recent advances in solution-processed interfacial materials for efficient and stable polymer solar cells
Hin-Lap Yip and Alex K.-Y. Jen
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 5994-6011
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE02806A
Na-ion batteries, recent advances and present challenges to become low cost energy storage systems
Verónica Palomares, Paula Serras, Irune Villaluenga, Karina B. Hueso, Javier Carretero-González and Teófilo Rojo
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 5884-5901
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE02781J
Challenges in the development of advanced Li-ion batteries: A review
Vinodkumar Etacheri, Rotem Marom, Ran Elazari, Gregory Salitra and Doron Aurbach
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 3243-3262
DOI: 10.1039/C1EE01598B
Optimization of photoelectrochemical water splitting performance on hierarchical TiO2 nanotubes array
Zhonghai Zhang and Peng Wang
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 6506-6512
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE03461A
Catalysts Made of Earth-Abundant Elements (Co, Ni, Fe) for Water Splitting: Recent Progress and Future Challenges
Pingwu Du and Richard Eisenberg
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 6012-6021
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE03250C
Recent Advances in Hybrid Photocatalysts for Solar Fuel Production
Phong D. Tran, Lydia H. Wong, James Barber and Joachim S. C. Loo
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 5902-5918
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE02849B
Energy and Environmental Nanotechnology in Conductive Paper and Textile
Liangbing Hu and Yi Cui
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 6423-6435
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE02414D
How should you measure your excitonic solar cells?
Henry J. Snaith
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 6513-6520
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE03429H
Graphene Based New Energy Materials
Yiqing Sun, Qiong Wu and Gaoquan Shi
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 1113-1132
DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00683A
High-Performance Flexible Lithium-Ion Electrodes Based on Robust Network Architecture
Xilai Jia, Zheng Chen, Arnold Suwarnasarn, Lynn Rice, Xiaolei Wang, Hiesang Sohn, Qiang Zhang, Benjamin M. Wu, Fei Wei and Yunfeng Lu
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE03110H
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Héctor Abruña and coworkers at Cornell University report a computational method for screening potential candidate organic molecules for their energy storage properties. Organic materials are relatively cheap to produce and also lighter than the inorganic oxides most commonly used for energy storage at present.
The team discovered that certain combinations of functional groups consistently produced materials with better performance.
Read the full details of this exciting article today:
Tailored redox functionality of small organics for pseudocapacitive electrodes
Stephen E. Burkhardt, Michael A. Lowe, Sean Conte, Weidong Zhou, Hualei Qian, Gabriel G. Rodríguez-Calero, Jie Gao, Richard G. Hennig and Héctor D. Abruña
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2EE21255B
First it was the snails, now it’s the turn of the clams to be plugged in and used as living batteries. The same group of scientists from the US and Israel, led by Evgeny Katz, has now implanted biofuel cells into clams and integrated them into batteries.
The researchers implanted the battery’s electrodes in the clam through holes cut into their shells. To produce power, enzymes on the electrodes catalyse the oxidation of glucose, which the clams produce when they metabolise food.
Katz’s team even set up the clams in series and parallel and tested their power outputs, comparing the two arrangements. Three clams set up in series produced a measly 5.2μW; three clams in parallel generated a massive 37μW.
They hooked up the clams to a capacitor to collect the energy for an hour and then discharged it through an electrical motor and managed to make the motor rotate a quarter of a full turn. The team says this is the first step on the long journey to bioelectronic self-powered cyborgs for potential military and homeland security applications. Self-powered cybernetic organisms? Now I can’t get the image of a Terminator clam brandishing an Uzi 9mm out of my head!
Hasta la vista, baby!
Living Battery – Biofuel Cells Operating In Vivo in Clams
Alon Szczupak, Jan Halamek, Lenka Halámková, Vera Bocharova, Lital Alfonta and Evgeny Katz
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE21626D
Read the original article at Chemistry World
