EES Catalysis Blog

Missed our EES Catalysis First Issue webinar? Watch it back here as our authors and board members discuss the work published in our first issue.

Find out more about EES Catalysis on our webpage and submit your manuscript here.

Discover the first issue: EES Catalysis

2 March 2023, 13:00 (UK time)

Our upcoming webinar is your chance to discover EES Catalysis. Whether you’re curious about the energy and environmental catalysis research contained in our first issue, or are looking for the right place to publish your own discoveries, join us on 2 March to hear from the authors, researchers and editorial board members.

Tune in to the webinar on YouTube or LinkedIn!

What will the webinar cover?

Join the people behind the first issue of EES Catalysis to:

• hear our inaugural editorial board present their highlights from issue one
• see interviews with the authors, including Professor Kazunari Domen, Professor Kazuhide Kamiya and Ms Celine Xiao
• find out more about EES Catalysis – and discover a home for your own exceptional research

Start exploring EES Catalysis

The first issue of EES Catalysis is ready for you to discover. You’ll find excellent, innovative research on photo-, thermal and electrocatalysis, with great significance towards achieving energy security and zero carbon emission – all free to read online. Read the first issue here.

We look forward you joining us.

Open to everyone. Impactful for all: our first issue is available to explore

How do we discover new energy and environmental catalysis solutions? Handpicked by our editors, the first issue of EES Catalysis, our new, gold open access journal, showcases high-quality research on energy and environmental catalysis. Read issue 1 now.

Issue 1 includes:

Introducing EES Catalysis

Shizhang Qiao

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 7-8, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY90001G

Ultra-high-rate CO₂ reduction reactions to multicarbon products with a current density of 1.7 A cm^-2 in neutral electrolytes

Asato Inoue, Takashi Harada, Shuji Nakanishi, Kazuhide Kamiya

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 9-16, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00035K

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

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

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 17-25, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00051B

Zr-doped BaTaO₂N photocatalyst modified with Na-Pt cocatalyst for efficient hydrogen evolution and Z-scheme water splitting

Huihui Li, Junie Jhon M. Vequizo, Takashi Hisatomi, Mamiko Nakabayashi, Jiadong Xiao, Xiaoping Tao, Zhenhua Pang, Wenping Li, Shanshan Chen, Zheng Wang, Naoya Shibata, Akira Yamakata, Tsuyoshi Takata, Kazunari Domen

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 26-35, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00031H

Pit-embellished low-valent metal active sites customise CO₂ photoreduction to methanol

Wei Zhao, Miao Ding, Pengxin Yang, Qiang Wang, Kaifu Zhang, Xiaowen Zhan, Yu Yu, Qiquan Luo, Shan Gao, Jinlong Yang, Yi Xie

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 36-44, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00029F

High-efficiency electrosynthesis of urea over bacterial cellulose regulated Pd-Cu bimetallic catalyst

Shengbo Zhang, Jing Geng, Zhong Zhao, Meng Jin, Wenyi Li, Yixing Ye, Ke Li, Guozhong Wang, Yunxia Zhang, Huajie Yin, Haimin Zhang, Huijun Zhao

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 45-53, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00038E

Direct carbonate electrolysis into pure syngas

Yurou Celine Xiao, Christine M. Gabardo, Shijie Liu, Geonhui Lee, Yong Zhao, Colin P. O’Brien, Rui Kai Miao, Yi Xu, Jonathan P. Edwards, Mengyang Fan, Jianan Erick Huang, Jun Li, Panagiotis Papangelakis, Tartela Alkayyali, Armin Sedighian Rasouli, Jinqiang Zhang, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 54-61, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00046F

Fe-N/C catalysts with tunable mesoporous structures and carbon layer numbers reveal the role of interlayer CO₂ activation

Jinwoo Woo, June Sing Lim, Taejung Lim, Du San Baek, Jae Hyung Kim, Jong Hoon Lee, Hu Young Jeong, Chang Hyuck Choi, Sang Hoon Joo

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 62-73, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00055E

Effect of charge selective contacts on the quai Fermi level splitting of CuGa₃Se₅ thin film photocathodes for hydrogen evolution and methylviologen reduction

Ye Cheng, Chengcan Xiao, Behzad Mahmoudi, Roland Scheer, A. Wouter Maijenburg, Frank E. Osterloh

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 74-83, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00062H

Boosting the activity of PdAg alloy nanoparticles during H₂ production from formic acid induced by CrO_x as an inorganic interface modifier

Kohsuke Mori, Tatsuya Fujita, Hiromi Yamashita

EES Catal. 2023, 1, 84-93, DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00049K

Maximise the visibility of your research by publishing gold open access

All papers published in EES Catalysis will forever be free to read. We are waiving article processing charges (APCs) until mid-2025, so it is currently free to publish in for authors.

Submit your manuscript to EES Catalysis here!

To celebrate the launch of our three new journals, RSC Sustainability, EES Catalysis, and Sustainable Food Technology,  earlier this year, we organised three satellite events that ran in parallel to this year’s COP27 meeting in Egypt.

Our new journals all address topics that align with several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Each journal hosted a webinar where the panels discussed some of the current challenges and opportunities in their respective fields through a mix of live speakers and pre-recorded contributions.

RSC Sustainability

Join RSC Sustainability board members Tom Welton and Fran Kerton, along with RSC’s Programme Manager for Net Zero John Broderick as they discuss the challenges and opportunities for sustainable chemistry.

Find out more about RSC Sustainability and read our first published articles.

EES Catalysis

Join the RSC’s Programme Manager for Net Zero John Broderick and Jonathan Oxley (CBI Humber Cluster project) as they share their thoughts about challenges and opportunities for hydrogen as a sustainable fuel source.

Find out more about EES Catalysis and read our first published articles.

Sustainable Food Technology

Join Sustainable Food Technology board members Jorge Barros Velázquez, Rekha Singhal, Umezuruike Linus Opara, and Indrawati Oey as they discuss the challenges and opportunities to make food production more sustainable for the future.

Find out more about Sustainable Food Technology and read our first published articles.

We hope you enjoy these webinars and reading the first articles in our new journals!

We are delighted to reveal our first articles published in EES Catalysis. Read them now for free online!

Pit-embellished low-valent metal active sites customize CO₂ photoreduction to methanol

Wei Zhao, Miao Ding, Pengxin Yang, Qiang Wang, Kaifu Zhang, Xiaowen Zhan, Yu Yu, Qiquan Luo, Shan Gao, Jinlong Yang and Yi Xie

EES Catal., 2022, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00029F

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., 2022, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00051B

Direct carbonate electrosynthesis into pure syngas

Yurou Celine Xiao, Christine M. Gabardo, Shijie Liu, Geonhui Lee, Yong Zhou, Colin P. O’Brien, Rui Kai Maio, Yi Xu, Jonathan P. Edwards, Mengyang Fan, Jianan Erick Huang, Jun Li, Panagiotis Papangelakis, Tartela Alkayyali, Armin Sedighian Rasouli, Jinqiang Zhang, Edward H. Sargent and David Sinton

EES Catal., 2022, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00046F

High-efficiency electrosynthesis of urea over bacterial cellulose regulated Pd-Cu bimetallic catalyst

Shengbo Zhang, Jing Geng, Zhang Zhao, Meng Jin, Wenyi Li, Yixing Ye, Ke Li, Guozhong Wang, Yunxia Zhang, Huajie Yin, Haimin Zhang and Huijun Zhao

EES Catal., 2022, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00038E

Zr-doped BaTaO₂N photocatalyst modified with Na-Pt cocatalyst for efficient hydrogen evolution and Z-scheme water splitting

Huihui Li, Junie Jhon M. Vequizo, Takahi Hisatomi, Mamiko Nakabayashi, Jiadong Xiao, Xiaoping Tao, Zhenhua Pan, Wenpeng Li, Shanshan Chen, Zheng Wang, Naoya Shibata, Akira Yamakata, Tsuyoshi Takata and Kazunari Domen

EES Catal., 2022. Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2EY00031H

EES Catalysis is a premier gold open access journal reporting exceptional experimental and theoretical catalysis research for energy and environmental applications. As a multidisciplinary platform, we welcome catalysis research of the highest quality from all related subject areas including chemistry, materials science and engineering. Sign up for email alerts and submit your manuscript now.

Best wishes

Royal Society of Chemistry

on behalf of

Professor Shizhang Qiao, Editor-in-Chief, EES Catalysis

P.S. Read our Science Horizons Report outlining the role catalysis will play in solving global challenges

Meet the EES Catalysis team

We are delighted to welcome Professor Honggang Fu, Heilongjiang University, China, as an Associate Editor for EES Catalysis, a new open access journal publishing high quality research on energy and environmental catalysis.

Learn more about our new Associate Editor

Professor Honggang Fu is currently a professor and director of Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University. He was an appointed Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education of China (2009), a recipient of “Leading Personnel of the Ten Thousand Talents Program” (2013), and a National candidate of the New Century Millions of Talents Project (2007) by the Chinese government. His research expertise is in the material design, structural regulation, and catalytic mechanism associated with the photocatalytic/electrocatalytic hydrogen production, CO₂ reduction, organic synthesis/conversion/degradation. He has co-authored more than 380 papers in refereed journals (over 26,000 citations with h-index 86), including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., and so on.

Read some of his recent papers below:

Recent advances of biomass derived carbon-based materials for efficient electrochemical energy devices

Guangying Zhang, Xu Liu, Lei Wang and Honggang Fu

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022, 10, 9277-9307

Hollow CoP spheres assembled from porous nanosheets as high-rate and ultra-stable electrodes for advanced supercapacitors

Li Sun, Zhenbin Xie, Aiping Wu, Chungui Tian, Dongxu Wang, Ying Gu, Yachen Gao and Honggang Fu

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, 9, 26226-26235

EES Catalysis is now open for submissions. Find out more on the journal webpage, sign up to e-Alerts or submit your manuscript now.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Fu to EES Catalysis.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Zhichuan Xu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as an Associate Editor for EES Catalysis, a new open access journal publishing high quality research on energy and environmental catalysis.

Learn more about our new Associate Editor

Zhichuan is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electroanalytical Chemistry in 2008 and B.S. degree in Chemistry in 2002 from Lanzhou University, China. His Ph.D. training was received at Lanzhou University (2002-2004), Institute of Physics, CAS (2004-2005), and Brown University (2005-2007). Since 2007, he worked at the State University of New York at Binghamton as a Research Associate and since 2009 he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Researcher.

His major research interest is electrocatalysis, including catalyst development and fundamental advances. Currently, he serves as the director of the Centre of Advanced Catalysis Science and Technology at Nanyang Technological University. Dr. Xu received the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry from the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) since 2017 and a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science since 2018.

Read some of his recent papers below:

A review on fundamentals for designing oxygen evolution reactions

Jiajia Song, Chao Wei, Zhen-Feng Huang, Chuntai Liu, Lin Zeng, Xin Wang and Zhichuan J. Xu

Chemical Society Reviews, 2020, 49, 2196-2214

Approaches for measuring the surface areas of metal oxide electrocatalysts for determining their intrinsic electrocatalytic activity

Chao Wei, Shengnan Sun, Daniel Mandler, Xun Wang, Shi Zhang Qiao and Zhichuan J. Xu

Chemical Society Reviews, 2019, 48, 2518-2534

EES Catalysis is now open for submissions. Find out more on the journal webpage, sign up to e-Alerts or submit your manuscript now.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Xu to EES Catalysis.