Introducing the inaugural EES Solar Editorial Board

We are delighted to introduce to you to our inaugural Editorial Board for recently launched EES Solar, led by who will be working with our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Michael Saliba. As companion journal to Energy & Environmental Science (EES), our Editorial Board will be ensuring that the same very high levels of impact and quality are maintained for publications in EES Solar. Our Editorial team is dedicated to making our journal the home for exceptional solar technology research and welcome you to join our community.

 

Michael Saliba
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Michael Saliba is a full professor and the director of the Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv) at the University of Stuttgart. He holds a dual appointment at the Helmholtz Research Center Jülich, Germany. His research focuses on a deeper understanding and improvement of optoelectronic properties of photovoltaic materials with an emphasis on emerging perovskites for a sustainable energy future.

Prof. Saliba’s seminal work on multicomponent perovskites has established a general strategy for the combinatorial synthesis and exploration of novel materials. He was awarded the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Early Career Prize in Semiconductors by IUPAP, and named one of the World’s 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review, among other honours.

Find out more about Professor Saliba and his research here.

Dr. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is an Associate Professor and the Goizueta Junior Faculty Chair in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. He obtained his PhD degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut in 2014 in the group of Prof. Alexander Agrios. He pursued two postdoctoral fellowships, one at EPFL in Switzerland and another at MIT. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2019 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2024.

His group focuses on understanding the relationship between chemistry, crystallographic structures, and properties of emerging semiconducting materials for optoelectronic applications.

Find out more about Professor Correa-Baena and his research here.

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Associate Editor

Junwang Tang
Tsinghua University, China
Associate Editor

  Professor Junwang (John) Tang is the Founding Director of the Industrial Catalysis Center in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chair Professor of Materials Chemistry and Catalysis at Tsinghua University, China and a Visiting Professor at University College London, UK.

Tang is one of the pioneers who coupled photons with phonons for small molecule activation to produce zero-carbon fuels (e.g. H2O to H2, N2 to NH3) and valuable chemicals (CO2 to alcohols and CH4 to long chain hydrocarbons), as well as microwave catalysis (e.g. chemical plastic recycling) and investigation of the underlying charge dynamics and kinetics by state-of-the-art spectroscopy.

Find out more about Professor Tang and his research here.

Yingping Zou received her Ph. D. degree from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008. In the following years she performed her postdoctoral research at Laval University and was a visiting researcher at Stanford University. She was promoted to full professor in 2014 at Central South University (CSU).

Currently her research focuses on organic small molecules/polymers for high performance optoelectronic devices. She has published more than 300 peer-review papers including Joule, Nat.Photon., Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Mater. and J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Find out more about Professor Zou and her research here.

Yingping Zou
Central South University, China
Associate Editor

 

Solar technology is filled with potential. Scientists working in chemistry, energy, materials science and engineering are discovering new ways to convert light energy and generate electricity. EES Solar, part of the EES family, gives this influential research a home.  Our authors rely on us for a seamless publishing experience: regular communication during the submission process, meaningful feedback at peer review, and worthwhile guidance post-publication. Work with our expert editorial boards. Get support from our in-house energy team. Make a difference to the world with your publications.

 

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena joins EES Solar as Associate Editor


We are delighted to welcome Professor Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, as Associate Editor for EES Solar.

Learn more about Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena

Dr. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is an Associate Professor and the Goizueta Junior Faculty Chair in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. He obtained his PhD degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut in 2014 in the group of Prof. Alexander Agrios. He pursued two postdoctoral fellowships, one at EPFL in Switzerland and another at MIT. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2019 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2024. His group focuses on understanding the relationship between chemistry, crystallographic structures, and properties of emerging semiconducting materials for optoelectronic applications. His research program has attracted funding from the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, industry partners, and foundations, among others. His work has been cited over 38,000 times (h-index of 68) making him a top cited researcher as recognized every year by the Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researchers since 2019 and Nature Index Leading early career researcher in materials science (2019). Dr. Correa-Baena is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship for his contributions to the chemistry of halide perovskites.

Read some of his recent publications:

Nanometer Control of Ruddlesden-Popper Interlayers by Thermal Evaporation for Efficient Perovskite Photovoltaics
Kunal Datta, Sanggyun Kim, Ruipeng Li, Diana K. LaFollette, Jingwei Yang, Carlo A. R. Perini, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena
Adv. Mater., 2024, 36, 2404795

Solvent and A-Site Cation Control Preferred Crystallographic Orientation in Bromine-Based Perovskite Thin Films
Juanita Hidalgo, Yu An, Dariia Yehorova, Ruipeng Li, Joachim Breternitz, Carlo A.R. Perini, Armin Hoell, Pablo P. Boix, Susan Schorr, Joshua S. Kretchmer, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena
Chem. Mater., 2023 35, 4181-4191

Identifying high-performance and durable methylammonium-free lead halide perovskites via high-throughput synthesis and characterization
Yu an, Carlo Andrea Riccardo Perini, Juanita Hidalgo, Andrés-Felipe Castro-Méndez, Jacob N. Vagott, Ruipeng Li, Wissam A. Saidi, Shirong Wang, Xianggao Li, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena
Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, 14, 6638-6654

 

  Solar technology is filled with potential. Scientists working in chemistry, energy, materials science and engineering are discovering new ways to convert light energy and generate electricity. EES Solar, part of the EES family, gives this influential research a home.  Our authors rely on us for a seamless publishing experience: regular communication during the submission process, meaningful feedback at peer review, and worthwhile guidance post-publication. Work with our expert editorial boards. Get support from our in-house energy team. Make a difference to the world with your publications.

 

 

Yingping Zou joins EES Solar as Associate Editor

We are delighted to welcome Professor Yingping Zou, Central South University, China, as Associate Editor for EES Solar.

 

 

Learn more about Yingping Zou

Yingping Zou received her Ph. D. degree from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008. In the following years she performed her postdoctoral research at Laval University and was a visiting researcher at Stanford University. She was promoted to full professor in 2014 at Central South University (CSU). Currently her research focuses on organic small molecules/polymers for high performance optoelectronic devices. She has published more than 300 peer-review papers including in Joule, Nat.Photon., Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Mater. and J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Read some of her recent publications:

 

Atomically precise Ag30Pd4 nanocluster as efficient polysulfides redox catalyst in Li-S batteries

Bin Fan, Lubing Qin, Weikun Chen, Qian He, Qingya Wei, Zhenghua Tang, Yingping Zou

J. Energy Chem., 2024, 99, 512-521

 

Asymmetric Alkylthio Branched Chain on Pentacyclic Small Molecular Acceptors Enables High Efficiency Organic Solar Cells

Bigui Zhou, Songting Liang, Weikun Chen, Bin Fan, Qingya Wei, Qinhao Shi, Jun Yuan, Yingping Zou

Solar RRL, 2024, 8, 2400356

 

Multiscale computational analysis of the effect of end group modification on PM6:BTP-x OSCs performance

Qingxing Wu, Chongchen Xiang, Guangjun Zhang, Yingping Zou, Wanqiang Li

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12, 13311-13324

 

 

Solar technology is filled with potential. Scientists working in chemistry, energy, materials science and engineering are discovering new ways to convert light energy and generate electricity. EES Solar, part of the EES family, gives this influential research a home.  Our authors rely on us for a seamless publishing experience: regular communication during the submission process, meaningful feedback at peer review, and worthwhile guidance post-publication. Work with our expert editorial boards. Get support from our in-house energy team. Make a difference to the world with your publications.

 

Junwang Tang joins EES Solar as Associate Editor

We are delighted to welcome Professor Junwang Tang, Tsinghua University, China, as Associate Editor for EES Solar.

 

Learn more about Junwang Tang

Professor Junwang (John) Tang is a Member of the Academy of Europe, a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of IMMM and an Honorary Fellow of CCS. He was the Director of UCL Materials Hub and Chair of Materials Chemistry and Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL. He is currently the Founding Director of the Industrial Catalysis Center in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chair Professor of Materials Chemistry and Catalysis at Tsinghua University, China and a Visiting Professor at University College London, UK.

 

Tang is one of the pioneers to couple photons with phonons for small molecule activation to produce zero-carbon fuels (eg. H2O to H2, N2 to NH3) and valuable chemicals (CO2 to alcohols and CH4 to long chain hydrocarbons) as well as microwave catalysis (e.g. chemical plastic recycling), together with the investigation of the underlying charge dynamics and kinetics by state-of-the-art spectroscopic, resulting in >250 papers published in Nature Energy, Nature Catalysis, Nature Materials, Nature Sustainability, Nature Review Materials, Chemical Reviews etc. He is also Editor / Editor-in-Chief / Associate Editor of 5 journals, including Applied Catalysis B, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, and EES Solar. Prof. Tang has received many awards, the latest of which are the 2022 IChemE Oil and Gas Global Awards (Methane conversion), 2021 IChemE Andrew Medal (due to his contribution to heterogeneous catalysis), the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize 2021 (due to innovative photocatalysts discovered), 2021 Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and 2021 IChemE Innovative Product Award (thanks to successful microwave technology transfer).

 

Read some of his recent publications:

 

Converting Glycerol into Valuable Trioses by Cuδ+-Single-Atom-Decorated WO3 under Visible Light

Lunqiao Xiong, Zhounan Yu, Hongchen Cao, Weixiang Guan, Yang Su, Xiaoli Pan, Leilei Zhang, Xiaoyan Liu, Aiqin Wang, Junwang Tang

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202318461

 

PdCu nanoalloy decorated photocatalysts for efficient and selective oxidative coupling of methane in flow reactors

Xiyi Li, Chao Wang, Jianlong Yang, Youxun Xu, Yi Yang, Jiaguo Yu, Juan J. Delgado, Natalia Martsinovich, Xiao Sun, Xu-Sheng Zheng, Weixin Huan, Junwang Tang

Nat. Commun., 2023, 14, 6343

 

Highly Selective Conversion of CH4 to High Value-Added C1 Oxygenates over Pd Loaded ZnTi-LDH

Lei Fu, Ruixue Zhang, Jianlong Yang, Jiale Shi, Hai-Ying Jiang, Junwang Tang

Adv. Energy Mater., 2023, 13, 2301118

 

 

  Solar technology is filled with potential. Scientists working in chemistry, energy, materials science and engineering are discovering new ways to convert light energy and generate electricity. EES Solar, part of the EES family, gives this influential research a home.  Our authors rely on us for a seamless publishing experience: regular communication during the submission process, meaningful feedback at peer review, and worthwhile guidance post-publication. Work with our expert editorial boards. Get support from our in-house energy team. Make a difference to the world with your publications.

 

Submit to EES Batteries and EES Solar: Now open for exceptional research

 

The EES family has grown. In July, we announced two new journals – EES Batteries and EES Solar – which will welcome in a new era of exceptional research.

That era begins now. Join in right from the start by submitting your work today.

The journals

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Exceptional research on batteries and energy storage

Editor in Chief: Qiang Zhang

EES Batteries welcomes all scales of influential, high impact and quality studies, from impactful fundamental advances to interdisciplinary research across all scientific disciplines, including chemistry, physics, materials science, engineering, and technoeconomic analyses.

Submit to EES Batteries

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Exceptional research on solar energy and photovoltaics

Editor in Chief: Michael Saliba

EES Solar aims to be a leading publication for groundbreaking studies that span a wide range of scientific disciplines, all connected by the thread of solar.

The journal considers influential studies across diverse scientific fields, including chemistry, physics, materials science, engineering, computational and physical modelling studies, policy and technoeconomic analyses.

Submit to EES Solar

 

 

How you can join in

These journals are poised to make a significant impact. Submitting early will not only increase your chances of being featured in our inaugural issues, but your work will also help to lead the way as these exciting new research platforms grow.

EES Batteries and EES Solar will deliver the same impact and influence that you associate with companion journal Energy & Environmental Science. Exceptional research belongs with the EES family.

 

Article processing charges (APCs) are waived until mid-2027.

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Introducing Qiang Zhang and Michael Saliba

We are delighted to introduce you to our Editors-in-Chief of the two new, recently announced Royal Society of Chemistry journals: EES Batteries and EES Solar, part of the EES family journals.

 

Dr Qiang Zhang is a full professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, China. His group mainly focuses on advanced energy chemistry and energy materials, including dendrite-free lithium metal anodes, lithium sulfur batteries, electrolytes, solid state batteries, and energy electrocatalysis. Find out more here and on Dr Zhang’s group webpage here. You can also read some of Dr Zhang’s recent research below:

A brief history of zinc–air batteries: 140 years of epic adventures
Jia-Ning Liu, Chang-Xin Zhao, Juan Wang, Ding Ren, Bo-Quan Li and Qiang Zhang
Energy Environ. Sci., 2022,15, 4542-4553.

A data-driven bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst with a record-breaking ΔE = 0.57 V for ampere-hour-scale zinc-air batteries
Jia-Ning Liu, Chang-Xin Zhao, Juan Wang, Xuan-Qi Fang, Chen-Xi Bi, Bo-Quan Li, Qiang Zhang
Joule, 2024, 8, 1804-1819.

 

Prof. Michael Saliba is a full professor and the director of the Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv) at the University of Stuttgart. He holds a dual appointment at the Helmholtz Research Center Jülich, Germany. His research focuses on a fundamental understanding of optoelectronic materials with an emphasis on emerging perovskites for a sustainable energy future. Find out more here and read some of Professor Saliba’s recent research below:

All-perovskite tandem solar cells: from fundamentals to technological progress
Jaekeun Lim, Nam-Gyu Park, Sang Il Seok and Michael Saliba
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17, 4390-4425.

Overcoming ionic migration in perovskite solar cells through alkali metals
Clara A. Aranda, Agustin O. Alvarez, Vladimir S. Chivrony, Chittaranjan Das, Monika Rai, Michael Saliba
Joule, 2024, 8, 241-254.

 

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Introducing EES Batteries and EES Solar

Exceptional research in batteries, energy storage, solar energy and photovoltaics now has a dedicated home with the Royal Society of Chemistry.

EES Batteries and EES Solar are part of the EES journal family, which is known for delivering outstanding publications. This is where progress begins.

 

Meet our Editors-in-Chief

“I am delighted to be the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of EES Batteries and intend for this journal to be established as a cornerstone of innovation, and a beacon for sustainable energy solutions that actively shape the future of energy technologies globally.”

Qiang ZhangEES Batteries

“I am driven to advance the global transition to a sustainable energy future, and to shape EES Solar into a premier platform to exchange ideas and drive the progression of solar research.”

Michael SalibaEES Solar

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