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Web Collection: Supercapacitors
This Collection of reviews and articles, includes contributions from leading scientists like George Chen, Yuri Gogotsi and Rodney Ruoff.
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HOT Communication – continuous carbide-derived carbon film
It is demonstrated that continuous carbide-derived carbon (CDC) films can be synthesized on various substrates and show high volumetric capacitance.
Continuous carbide-derived carbon films with high volumetric capacitance
Min Heon, Samuel Lofland, James Applegate, Robert Nolte, Emma Cortes, Jeffrey D. Hettinger, Pierre-Louis Taberna, Patrice Simon, Peihua Huang, Magali Brunet and Yury Gogotsi
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00404A
Energy & Environmental Science Advisory Board member Bernie Bulkin is to give a lecture on A Path to Sustainable Energy for the UK in Cambridge.
Professor Bernie Bulkin is Commissioner for Energy and Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission, which is part of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). His lecture will be hosted by the Cambridge Society for the Application in Research (CSAR) in Cambridge, UK, on Monday 15th November.
For more information and to become a member of CSAR, see http://www.csar.org.uk/
This work has demonstrated that the electrocatalytic activity of the solid oxide fuel cell cathode can be improved by tailoring the surface crystal facet of micro-crystals. The knowledge obtained will facilitate the goal to improve energy efficiency and to reduce emissions.
Single crystalline La0.5Sr0.5MnO3 microcubes as cathode of solid oxide fuel cell
Mingjia Zhi, Guangwen Zhou, Zhanglian Hong, Jin Wang, Randall Gemmen, Kirk Gerdes, Ayyakkannu Manivannan, Dongling Ma and Nianqiang Wu
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00300J
Come and see this public lecture!
Tuesday 23 November, 2010, The Chemistry Centre, London
Speaker: Mike Pitts, CiKTN
This lecture will highlight one of the priority areas in the RSC Roadmap: Sustainable Product Design. It will look at how the entire life cycle of products – from design through to disposal – can be assessed to help preserve resources. Mike Pitt’s talk will be stressing the scale of the sustainability challenge, while highlighting how it should be viewed as an opportunity by chemistry-using companies.
For more information and to reserve a place, please visit our webpage.
An Energy & Environmental Science article on photovoltaics has been featured in the New Scientist.
The article by Brian Korgel and colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin describes a new nanocrystal photovoltaic device which can be sprayed on to a surface – making it very useful for flexible materials such as clothes or beach towels!
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Spray-deposited CuInSe2 nanocrystal photovoltaics
Vahid A. Akhavan, Brian W. Goodfellow, Matthew G. Panthani, Dariya K. Reid, Danny J. Hellebusch, Takuji Adachi and Brian A. Korgel
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2010, 3, 1600-1606
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Energy & Environmental Science November covers
The outside front cover of issue 11 features the Perspective article by F. W. Lee et al. where they discuss if smokeless biomass pyrolysis is a possible arsenal for global carbon capture and sequestration at the gigaton scale.
Sustainability: the capacity of smokeless biomass pyrolysis for energy production, global carbon capture and sequestration
James Weifu Lee, Bob Hawkins, Danny M. Day and Donald C. Reicosky
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1695-1705
The inside front cover highlights Juan Carlos Ruiz-Morales and colleagues article where they review cost-effective methods of microstructural control of materials for energy and environmental applications – from an “eye-scale” down to the micrometre scale.
Engineering of materials for solid oxide fuel cells and other energy and environmental applications
Juan Carlos Ruiz-Morales, David Marrero-López, María Gálvez-Sánchez, Jesús Canales-Vázquez, Cristian Savaniu and Stanislav N. Savvin
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1670-1681
HOT Review article – read it now
Improving hydrogenase O2 tolerance is a major contemporary challenge to allow the implementation of a sustainable hydrogen economy, as hydrogenases catalyze the conversion between 2H+ + 2e– and H2.
In this Review Christophe Léger and colleagues explore different methods to improve the O2-tolerance of the O2-sensitive [Ni–Fe] hydrogenase.
Towards engineering O2-tolerance in [Ni–Fe] hydrogenases
Pierre-Pol Liebgott, Sébastien Dementin, Christophe Léger and Marc Rousset
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00093K
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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
