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.
Meet the team at ACS Fall 2010
06 Aug 2010
ISACS4: Challenges in Renewable Energy
06 Aug 2010
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.
Nuclear fuel, SERS and fast food – all in this month’s EES!
04 Aug 2010
Issue 8 of Energy & Environmental Science is now out and contains a great mix of articles, take a look now
Here are just a few to highlight:
- Dan Nocera explains that new R&D is needed to provide the nonlegacy world with the “fast food” equivalent of solar energy—light-weight and highly manufacturable solar capture and storage systems – “Fast food” energy
- R. Busquim e Silva, M. S. Kazimi and P. Hejzlar from MIT, apply in this Analysis article a system dynamics model to the impact of spent fuel recycling on the US nuclear energy system – Nuclear fuel recycling: National and regional options for the US nuclear energy system
- R. A. Álvarez-Puebla and L. M. Liz-Marzár review ways in which surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) can have a wide range of applications in environmental science and monitoring – Environmental applications of plasmon assisted Raman scattering
Energy storage in supercapacitors
03 Aug 2010
Energy & Environmental Science Perspective article – read this article hot off the press!
to improve performance
Peter J. Hall, Mojtaba Mirzaeian, S. Isobel Fletcher, Fiona B. Sillars, Anthony J. R. Rennie, Gbolahan. O. Shitta-Bey, Grant Wilson, Andrew Cruden and Rebecca Carter
Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00004C
Electrochemical capacitors, also known as supercapacitors, are becoming increasingly important components in energy storage, although their widespread use has not been attained due to a high cost/performance ratio. Peter J. Hall and colleagues at the University of Strathclyde explain although there are still many uncertainties in understanding the underlying mechanisms involved in electrochemical capacitors, genuine progress continues to be made.
New solar fuels research hub at CalTech
27 Jul 2010
Editor-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.
Carbon Nanostructures for Energy – call for papers
27 Jul 2010
We are delighted to announce a high-profile themed issue of Energy & Environmental Science on Carbon Nanostructures for Energy, which will be Guest Edited by Professors Dirk M. Guldi and Andreas Hirsch (University of Erlangen) and Professor Nazario Martin (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
Extended submission deadline: 27th September 2010
The first official Impact Factor of Energy & Environmental Science has just been released by ISI, and it’s a huge 8.50! Placing Energy & Environmental Science as the #1 ranked journal in the field. We hope you will be able to contribute to the future success of the journal.
The issue intends to cover the full range of carbon materials associated with the broad field of energy and global environmental issues; including Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes, Graphenes, and other carbon nanostructures. The key aim is to produce an interesting and varied issue which will highlight the state of the art in the field and will give an insight about the future of carbon-based materials as a complementary source of interest for alternative energies.
All articles will be subject to rigorous peer-review according to the journal’s usual standards – if accepted, they well receive great exposure, and will get significant promotion.
Manuscripts can be easily submitted (in any reasonable layout and format) via our online submission system. Please state on your submission that it is intended for this themed issue.
“Fast Food” Energy
16 Jul 2010
Daniel Nocera explains that new R&D is needed to provide the nonlegacy world with the fast food equivalent of solar energy—light-weight and highly manufacturable solar capture and storage systems.
Read this high-profile EES Opinion article now:
“Fast Food” Energy
Daniel G. Nocera, Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c003891c
Stable catalyst for hydrogen generation
15 Jul 2010
A robust catalyst that produces hydrogen from ammonia-boranes with high efficiency under atmospheric conditions has been developed by Spanish scientists.
As well as being more efficient than previous systems, the iridium catalyst has the added advantage that it is stable in water and air. The catalysis produces up to three equivalents of hydrogen in a very efficient reaction.
Read the whole story or go straight to the article.
EES first official Impact Factor – a huge 8.5!
13 Jul 2010
Since its launch in 2008, Energy & Environmental Science has quickly established itself as the journal to publish important, agenda-setting research in the crucially-important energy and associated global environmental fields.
The journal has attracted outstanding research, and has a very large, community-spanning international readership.
This is reflected in the new Impact Factor of 8.500*, which puts EES as officially the #1 ranking journal in its ISI subject category.
Editor-in-Chief Professor Nathan Lewis, the Editorial Office and Editorial Board thank all our authors, referees and readers – your support makes the journal what it is.
We will continue to publish the best and most important research, and look forward to further success in the months and years ahead.
Submit your best research today to Energy & Environmental Science!
*Figures supplied directly to RSC Publishing by Thomson Reuters after a technical error resulted in Energy & Environmental Science‘s omission from the initial release of figures. The Journal Citation Report (JCR) will be corrected soon.