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Markus Antonietti joins EES Advisory Board

Markus AntoniettiEnergy & Environmental Science is delighted to announce that Professor Markus Antonietti of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, has joined our Advisory Board.

Markus’ interests include the synthesis of novel polymers and sol-gel materials, green chemistry and carbon negative chemistry cycles as well as energy materials and artificial photosynthesis.

Professor Antonietti’s recent EES communication has been attracting lots of interest! Read it today:

Sulfur-mediated synthesis of carbon nitride: Band-gap engineering and improved functions for photocatalysis
Jinshui Zhang, Jianhua Sun, Kazuhiko Maeda, Kazunari Domen, Ping Liu, Markus Antonietti, Xianzhi Fu and Xinchen Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00418A

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Advisory Board Member Tom Moore featured in Science

Energy & Environmental Science Advisory Board member, Thomas Moore has a Review article in Science today:

Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement
R. E. Blankenship et al.
DOI: 10.1126/science.1200165

You can also listen to a Podcast about the work!

See which other leading scientists are on the Energy & Environmental Science  Editorial and Advisory Boards

Submit your latest reseach to Energy & Environmental Science today – the leading journal in its ISI subject catagory!

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Announcing new Advisory Board members

Yang Shao-HornEnergy & Environmental Science is delighted to welcome three new members to its Advisory Board:

  • Yang Shao-Horn (MIT, USA)
    Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage (Batteries and Fuel Cells); Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Electrochemical Reactions
  • Chang-jun Liu (Tianjin, China)
    Chang-jun LiuCatalysis; Utilization of Greenhouse Gases; Natural Gas Conversion; Plasma Chemical Processing for Energy; Fuels and Environment
  • Emilio Palomares (ICIQ, Spain)Palomares
    Molecular photovoltaic devices based on nanostructured metal oxides and organic conductors; photophysical characterization of molecular materials and molecular devices

We welcome them all to the Board and look forward to working with them over the coming months and years.

Read some of their latest Energy & Environmental Science articles:

Nanostructured carbon-based electrodes: bridging the gap between thin-film lithium-ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors
Seung Woo Lee, Betar M. Gallant, Hye Ryung Byon, Paula T. Hammond and Yang Shao-Horn
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, Advance Article, Perspective

Promotion effects of Ga2O3 on CO2 adsorption and conversion over a SiO2-supported Ni catalyst
Yun-xiang Pan, Pingyu Kuai, Yuan Liu, Qingfeng Ge and Chang-jun Liu
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1322-1325

Energy levels, charge injection, charge recombination and dye regeneration dynamics for donor–acceptor π-conjugated organic dyes in mesoscopic TiO2 sensitized solar cells
Miquel Planells, Laia Pellejà, John N. Clifford, Mariachiara Pastore, Filippo De Angelis, Núria López, Seth R. Marder and Emilio Palomares
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 1820-1829

See who else is on the Energy & Environmental Science Advisory and Editorial Boards.

New Scientific Editors

We are also pleased to announce that Emilio Palomares, alongside Editorial Board member Peng Wang (CIAC, China), will also act as Scientific Editors for Energy & Environmental Science. They will have the special responsibility of providing additional support and advice to the Cambridge Editorial Office regarding submissions in the area of molecular solar conversion.

Submit your latest research to Energy & Environmental Science today!

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George Huber in Chemistry World

Energy & Environmental Science Editorial Board member, George Huber, has featured in Chemistry World today with his latest biomass research. The paper shows that cheap bio-oil could soon compete with crude oil in plastic manufacture.

Read George Huber’s recent Energy & Environmental Science articles:

HOT article
Production of green aromatics and olefins by catalytic fast pyrolysis of wood sawdust
Torren R. Carlson, Yu-Ting Cheng, Jungho Jae and George W. Huber
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00341G

Perspective
The critical role of heterogeneous catalysis in lignocellulosic biomass conversion
Yu-Chuan Lin and George W. Huber
Energy Environ. Sci., 2009, 2, 68-80

Read the Chemistry World feature:
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/November/25111003.asp

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Peng Wang joins the EES Editorial Board

Peng WangProfessor Peng Wang is Professor of Chemistry at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry. He was previously on the Energy & Environmental Science Advisory Board and is now the first Editorial Board member from Asia.

His research interests include the design and synthesis of exotic organic materials in bionic nanoarchitechures for light energy conversion and closely related charge and energy transfer processes.

We look forward to working closely with him in the future.

Read Peng Wang’s recent EES Communication article now:
Oligothiophene dye-sensitized solar cells

Jingyuan Liu, Renzhi Li, Xiaoying Si, Difei Zhou, Yushuai Shi, Yinghui Wang, Xiaoyan Jing and Peng Wang
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00304B

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Electrolyte cations influence on organic dye-sensitized solar cells

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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New solar fuels research hub at CalTech

Nathan LewisEditor-in-Chief of Energy & Environmental Science, Nate Lewis will direct the new solar fuels hub at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), USA.

The groups at CalTech have been awarded $122 million (£79 million) to establish a research hub to develop techniques that imitate nature and generate fuel directly from sunlight.

Learn more about Energy & Environmental Science‘s Editorial Board and scope – or read the Chemistry World article.

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