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Gulf oil spill, nuclear fuel & supercapacitors – highlights from Issue 10 of EES

04 Oct 2010

Read October’s issue of Energy & Environmental Science today – here are some of this month’s highlights:

Dan Arvizu, Director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US Department of Energy, discusses the future prospects for renewable energy following the recent Gulf oil spill, and during the current economic climate, in this insightful Opinion article:

New science strengthens the promise of renewable fuels
Dan Arvizu, Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1378

This issue’s outside front cover features the Review by Ram Devanathan et al. which gives a great overview of the status of the modeling of nuclear fuels, with emphasis on the most widely used nuclear fuel, UO₂:

Modeling and simulation of nuclear fuel materials
Ram Devanathan, Laurent Van Brutzel, Alain Chartier, Christine Guéneau, Ann E. Mattsson, Veena Tikare, Timothy Bartel, Theodore Besmann, Marius Stan and Paul Van Uffelen, Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1406

This issue also features a Communication article by George Chen and colleagues about new asymmetrical supercapacitors:

Unequalisation of electrode capacitances for enhanced energy capacity in asymmetrical supercapacitors
Chuang Peng, Shengwen Zhang, Xiaohang Zhou and George Z. Chen, Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1499

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Ocean acidification – a challenge to humanity

30 Sep 2010

‘HOT’ Review Article – read it today:

This exciting article reviews recent findings, and looks at the future consequences, of anthropogenic ocean acidification which poses a millennial challenge to humanity.

Ocean acidification: a millennial challenge
Matthias Hofmann and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C000820F

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Energy research @ ISE 2010

28 Sep 2010

This week sees a big emphasis on energy at the International Society of Electrochemistry Annual Meeting in Nice, France (ISE 2010).

There are a whole host of talks on this exciting and fast moving area of science, and there are 3 symposia specifically dedicated to the topic:

– Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
– Enzymes and Microbes for Energy Production in Biofuel Cells and Microbial Fuel cells
– Physical Modeling and Simulation of Electrochemical Processes in Fuel Cells

Many of the high-profile speakers have recently published in EES – here are just a few papers for you to look at:

Review
Fuel cells for micro-combined heat and power generation
Adam Hawkes, Iain Staffell, Dan Brett and Nigel Brandon
Energy Environ. Sci., 2009, 2, 729-744

A comparative study of the hydrated morphologies of perfluorosulfonic acid fuel cell membranes with mesoscopic simulations
Dongsheng Wu, Stephen J. Paddison and James A. Elliott
Energy Environ. Sci., 2008, 1, 284-293

Nickel(II) tetra-aminophthalocyanine modified MWCNTs as potential nanocomposite materials for the development of supercapacitors
Alfred T. Chidembo, Kenneth I. Ozoemena, Bolade O. Agboola, Vinay Gupta, Gregory G. Wildgoose and Richard G. Compton
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 228-236

Review
Enzyme catalysed biofuel cells
M. J. Cooney, V. Svoboda, C. Lau, G. Martin and S. D. Minteer
Energy Environ. Sci., 2008, 1, 320-337

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Enzyme-based electrodes in fuel cells

27 Sep 2010

Energy & Environmental Science Issue 9 covers

The outside front cover features a Communication article on new enzyme-based electrodes for biofuel cells. The catalytic current was found to be 13-fold higher compared to conventional flat electrodes.

Designing highly efficient enzyme-based carbonaceous foams electrodes for biofuel cells
Victoria Flexer, Nicolas Brun, Rénal Backov and Nicolas Mano
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1302-1306
DOI: 10.1039/C003488F

The inside front cover highlights the Minireview by Jun Chen and colleagues, which discusses the use of carbon nanotubes as catalyst supports in PEM fuel cells:

Carbon nanotube architectures as catalyst supports for proton exchange membrane fuel cells
Weimin Zhang, Peter Sherrell, Andrew I. Minett, Joselito M. Razal and Jun Chen
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1286-1293
DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00139B

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Electric vehicles – are they the answer?

24 Sep 2010

Dr Oliver Inderwildi and colleagues at the Low-Carbon Mobility Centre, University of Oxford, quantify the indirect well-to-wheels CO₂ emissions for three electric vehicles when used in the US, the UK, and France.

This high-profile Energy & Environmental Science Analysis article has already been featured in the The Engineer online magazine and as part of an interview with Dr Oliver Inderwildi on EuroNews.

Read this cutting-edge Analysis article today:

Indirect emissions from electric vehicles: emissions from electricity generation
Aaron R. Holdway, Alexander R. Williams, Oliver R. Inderwildi and David A. King
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00031K

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Environment, Sustainability & Energy 2011 Awards- Nominations now open

23 Sep 2010

The RSC currently presents around 60 prestigious Prizes and Awards annually to scientists in all the main chemical science disciplines allowing for the greatest range of scientists to be recognised for their work; individuals, teams and organisations working across the globe.

Environment, Sustainability & Energy is one of the nine categories of awards, which has 13 Prizes and Awards including the Sustainable Energy Award, Beilby Medal and Prize, Interdisciplinary Prizes and the three Centenary Prizes.

Our Prizes and Awards represent the dedication and outstanding achievements in the chemicals sciences and are a platform to showcase inspiring science to gain the recognition deserved.

Do you know someone who has made a significant contribution to advancing the chemical sciences?

View our full list of Prizes and Awards and use the online system to nominate yourself or colleagues.

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Nanostructured polymer solar cell

10 Sep 2010

EES ‘HOT’ article

Electrochemically polymerized column-like PEDOT: Pss nanostructure can be an efficient pathway to enhance charge transport in a polymer solar cell.

Read it now:

Electrochemically polymerized nanostructured poly(3.4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate) buffer layer for a high performance polymer solar cell
Hongbin Yang, Qunliang Song, Zhisong Lu, Chuxian Guo, Cheng Gong, Weihua Hu and Chang Ming Li
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00117A

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Electrolyte cations influence on organic dye-sensitized solar cells

07 Sep 2010

Peng Wang (EES Advisory Board member) and co-workers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have systematically investigate the influence of the electrolyte cations on spectroscopic and electrical features of organic dye-sensitized solar cells.

Read it now:

Influence of the electrolyte cation in organic dye-sensitized solar cells: lithium versus dimethylimidazolium
Renzhi Li, Daxing Liu, Difei Zhou, Yushuai Shi, Yinghui Wang and Peng Wang
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00223B

organic dye-sensitized solar cells

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Enhanced energy capacity in asymmetrical supercapacitors

06 Sep 2010

Communication article – just published – read it now

George Chen and colleagues at the University of Nottingham have discovered that unequalisation of the positive and negative electrode capacitances can greatly enhance the energy capacity of asymmetrical supercapacitors, promising a simple and low cost manufacturing strategy.

Unequalisation of electrode capacitances for enhanced energy capacity in asymmetrical supercapacitors
Chuang Peng, Shengwen Zhang, Xiaohang Zhou and George Z. Chen
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00228C

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SuNEC and EES collaboration

03 Sep 2010

Energy & Environmental Science is delighted to announce its exciting collaboration with the Sun New Energy Conference and Exhibition (SuNEC).

SuNEC will be held 5-8 July 2011 in Sicily, Italy and will be co-chaired by Vittorio Loddo and Mario Pagliaro. Invited plenary speakers include Bouziane Mahmah, Peter Peumans, Simone Cimino and Michael Schubert.

The meeting will focus on the practical aspects of solar energy in every major field, covering the latest developments in solar energy science.

Themes:

Photovoltaics
Solar electrical vehicles
BIPV
Solar cooling
Concentrated solar power
Solar thermal
Solar economy (Helionomics)

Energy & Environmental Science plans to publish a collection of high-profile feature articles in a special issue to highlight some of the great research from this important meeting in the area of solar energy conversion. Submit your paper before 31st January 2011.

The first official Impact Factor of Energy & Environmental Science has just been released by ISI, and it’s a huge 8.50, placing it as the #1 ranked journal in the field.

Key Deadlines:

Oral abstract deadline and early bird registration: 31 January 2011
Submission deadline for EES issue: 31 January 2011
Poster abstract deadline: 4 March 2011

Energy & Environmental Science articles of interest:

Solar hydrogen: fuel of the near future
Mario Pagliaro, Athanasios G. Konstandopoulos, Rosaria Ciriminna and Giovanni Palmisano,
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 279

Compact monocrystalline silicon solar modules with high voltage outputs and mechanically flexible designs
Alfred J. Baca, Ki Jun Yu, Jianliang Xiao, Shuodao Wang, Jongseung Yoon, Jae Ha Ryu, Darren Stevenson, Ralph G. Nuzzo, Angus A. Rockett, Yonggang Huang and John A. Rogers,
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 208

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