HOT article – read it now!
In this paper George Huber and colleagues demonstrate that gasoline range aromatics can be produced from biomass in a single reactor process.
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
George Huber at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and colleagues have shown that waste feedstocks from biomass power plants can be turned into jet and diesel fuel in an integrated and economical process.
View the Chemistry World article and Green Chemistry paper today
Or view more articles by George Huber in Energy & Environmental Science:
Perspective feature article
The critical role of heterogeneous catalysis in lignocellulosic biomass conversion
Energy Environ. Sci., 2009, 2, 68-80
Depolymerization of lignocellulosic biomass to fuel precursors: maximizing carbon efficiency by combining hydrolysis with pyrolysis
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 358-365
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
