The outside front cover features the paper Binary additives synergistically boost the efficiency of all-polymer solar cells up to 3.45% by Pei Cheng, Long Ye, Xingang Zhao, Jianhui Hou, Yongfang Li and Xiaowei Zhan.
Coupling surface plasmon resonance of gold nanoparticles with slow-photon-effect of TiO2 photonic crystals for synergistically enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting is the paper highlighted on the inside front cover by Xing Zhang, Yang Liu, Shuit-Tong Lee, Shihe Yang and Zhenhui Kang.
Issue 4 contains a number of excellent Editorial, Review, and Perspective articles:
Two stories from the ISACS 12 conference: solar-fuel devices and catalyst identification
Zhuangqun Huang, Chengxiang Xiang, Hans-Joachim Lewerenz and Nathan S. Lewis
Recent progress on nitrogen/carbon structures designed for use in energy and sustainability applications
Kevin N. Wood, Ryan O’Hayre and Svitlana Pylypenko
Energy storage applications of activated carbons: supercapacitors and hydrogen storage
Marta Sevilla and Robert Mokaya
Recent advances in multifunctional nanocarbons used in dye-sensitized solar cells
Rubén D. Costa, Fabian Lodermeyer, Rubén Casillas and Dirk M. Guldi
Graphene oxide derivatives as hole- and electron-extraction layers for high-performance polymer solar cells
Jun Liu, Michael Durstock and Liming Dai
Progress in flexible lithium batteries and future prospects
Guangmin Zhou, Feng Li and Hui-Ming Cheng
A perspective on the high-voltage LiMn1.5Ni0.5O4 spinel cathode for lithium-ion batteries
Arumugam Manthiram, Katharine Chemelewski and Eun-Sung Lee
