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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

Managing Editor, Philip Earis, will be at the ACS Fall 2010 National Meeting and Exposition in Boston.

Let us know if you are going to be there and visit Booth 801, where you can find out the latest news from RSC Publishing.

ISACS4: Challenges in Renewable Energy, Boston, 2011

Following the great success of the first three ISACS meetings held July 2010, ISACS 4-6 have now been confirmed, including one specifically covering renewable energy.

Almost 500 delegates attended the first three ISACS meetings (International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences), held in San Francisco, Budapest, and Hong Kong, this July. The events, held in support of the launch of the new RSC journal Chemical Science, received critical acclaim from the delegates: survey results from over 100 attendees, suggest an incredible 97% would seek to attend future ISACS meetings!

Why not find out why these events were so well received, by attending ISACS4 in Boston next year?

ISACS1 – held in San Francisco, July 2010

• ISACS 4 – Challenges in Renewable Energy
  5–8 July, 2011, Boston, USA

Scientific Organising Committee:

– Daniel Nocera (Chair), MIT, Boston, USA
– Christopher Cummins, MIT, Boston, USA
– Jeffrey Long, UC Berkeley, San Francisco, USA
– James Durrant, Imperial College, London, UK

Further information, along with speaker details, will be available in due course, but we suggest you hold these dates in your diary straight away.

This energy meeting forms part of a suite of three ISACS events in 2011, which also include:

• ISACS5 – Challenges in Chemical Biology
  26-29 July 2011, Manchester, UK
  

• ISACS6 – Challenges in Organic Materials & Supramolecular Chemistry
  2-5 September 2011, Beijing, China
  

Read more about the success of the 2010 ISACS events.