How do we discover new energy solutions? EES Catalysis delivers the same impact and influence that researchers associate with our Energy & Environmental Science brand. As a multidisciplinary platform, the journal covers catalysis in all subject areas like chemistry, materials science and engineering. At its core, EES Catalysis aligns with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7) – to ensure access to affordable, reliable and modern energy for all.

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Editor Spotlight: Susan Habas

Susan Habas, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, is one of our Associate Editors handling the peer review of submitted manuscripts. Her research has focused on developing new catalyst materials with tailored active sites and understanding the evolution of these sites under realistic operating conditions. The growing importance of translating innovative catalytic technologies for renewable products to industry, highlights the need for this level of understanding in scalable catalyst materials and integrated systems. In her opinion, designing catalysts that can be readily incorporated into real systems, and understanding and mitigating catalyst deactivation in the presence of common contaminants, will help accelerate adoption of these new technologies.

As such, she is always excited to handle papers that address the design of new materials for thermocatalytic and electrocatalytic applications, as well as multi-scale characterization of integrated catalytic systems for the journal. Her vision is that EES Catalysis becomes the go-to source for fundamental studies that enable the transition to applied catalysis.

Publish with EES Catalysis and receive a number of benefits including:

• Free Gold Open Access publication – all article processing charges are waived until mid-2025
• Rapid times to publication – our average time to decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts is just 24 days
• Flexible article types with no word count restrictions or colour changes
• Broad readership: our global audience provides maximum exposure for your work
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We would be delighted to hear from you if you are interested in submitting to the journal or if you would like any further information. If you are interested in publishing your next paper with us, please contact the journal directly so that we can send you an invited submission link.

Realising the Double Benefit of Selective Ethane Activation

Descriptor-based identification of bimetallic-derived catalysts for selective activation of ethane with CO2

Haoyue Guo, Zhenhua Xie, Xuelong Wang, Jingguang G. Chen and Ping Liu

EES. Catal., 2023,1, 17-25 DOI D2EY00051B

An interview with the authors

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment and what do you find most challenging about your research?

For simultaneously upgrading CO2 and C2 light alkanes into different types of important industrial feedstocks, it is important to control the selective scission of C-H/C-C bonds in alkanes. It is challenging due to the structural complexity of catalysts. By using combined approaches of in situ characterization and DFT calculations, our research can lead to the discovery of active sites for effective catalysts for CO2-assisted alkane activation.

How do you feel about EES Catalysis as a place to publish research on this topic?

As a new EES journal with a focus on catalysis, EES Catalysis is an ideal journal to share cutting edge research for catalysis related to energy and environment.