EES Catalysis Blog

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 Rebecca Melen, Cardiff University, UK, as an Associate Editor for EES Catalysis, a new open access journal publishing high-quality high quality research on energy and environmental catalysis.

Learn more about our new Associate Editor

Rebecca Melen studied for her undergraduate and PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge, completing her PhD in 2012 with Prof. Wright. Following postdoctoral studies with Prof. Stephan in Toronto and with Prof. Gade in Heidelberg, she took up a position at Cardiff University in 2014, where she is now a professor in inorganic chemistry.

Her research interests lie in main group chemistry and the applications of main group Lewis acids in synthesis and catalysis.

Find out more about Professor Melen on our webpage.

Read some of her recent papers below:

Chemo- and regio-selective amidation of indoles with isocyanates using borane Lewis acids

Ayan Dasgupta, Michael G. Guerzoni, Nusaybah Alotaibi, Yara van Ingen, Kaveh Farshadfar, Emma Richards, Alireza Ariafard, and Rebecca L. Melen

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2022, 12, 5982-5990

Borane catalysed cyclopropenation of arylacetylenes

Katarina Stefkova, Matthew J. Heard, Ayan Dasgupta, and Rebecca L. Melen

Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 6736-6739

EES Catalysis is open for submissions. Find out more on the journal webpage, sign up for email alerts or submit your manuscript now.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Melen to EES Catalysis.

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.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Shizhang Qiao, The University of Adelaide, Australia, as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of EES Catalysis, a new open access journal publishing high quality research on energy and environmental catalysis.

Learn more about our new Editor-in-Chief

Professor Shizhang Qiao is chair professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, and the founding director of the Centre for Materials in Energy and Catalysis, University of Adelaide. His research expertise is in nanostructured materials for electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, batteries and other new energy technologies.

Find out more about Professor Qiao on the EES Catalysis webpage.

You can read some of Professor Qiao’s research in these papers below:

Design of electrocatalysts for oxygen- and hydrogen-involving energy conversion reactions

Yan Jiao, Yao Zheng, Mietek Jaroniec and Shizhang Qiao

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 2060-2086

Role of oxygen-bound reaction intermediates in selective electrochemical CO₂ reduction

Xing Zhi, Anthony Vasileff, Yao Zheng, Yan Jiao and Shizhang Qiao

Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, 14, 3912-3930

EES Catalysis will open for submissions in August 2022. Sign up here to receive updates.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Qiao to EES Catalysis.

Committed to sustainability, created for you.

The Royal Society of Chemistry is committed to supporting the chemical science community in solving global sustainability challenges. As a signatory of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Publishers Compact, we are dedicated to helping achieve the UN’s SDG goals by 2023 as well as helping you and your discoveries make the world a better place. Therefore, as part of our ongoing commitment to addressing global challenges, we are announcing three new Gold Open Access journals, each with a sustainability focus.

EES Catalysis publishes high quality research on energy and environmental catalysis, and delivers the same impact and influence that researchers associate with our Energy & Environmental Science brand. As a multidisciplinary platform, it will cover catalysis across chemistry, materials science, engineering and beyond. Find out more and sign up to e-Alerts here.

RSC Sustainability welcomes research from all subject areas that are dedicated to solving sustainability challenges for a better, greener future. It also complements the Royal Society of Chemistry’s premier sustainability journal, Green Chemistry. Find out more and sign up to e-Alerts here.

Sustainable Food Technology, a companion journal to Food & Function, publishes high quality sustainable research on food engineering and technologies. Key topics include food preservation methods, shelf life and the creation of greener packaging. Find out more and sign up to e-Alerts here.

Dr Emma Wilson, Royal Society of Chemistry Director of Publishing, said: “While the scale and seriousness of these many sustainability challenges is undoubtedly urgent, we know that scientists from around the globe are already working on innovative, ground-breaking solutions, working together and sharing ideas. I’m enthusiastic about our Royal Society of Chemistry journals taking this important step to enable them to further their work.”

Professor Tom Welton, President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, said: “As a global society we are facing urgent and pressing challenges, from rising sea levels to impacts on food production. There is increasing pressure on scarce resources such as the precious elements required for medicine, technology, and sustainable energy, and we’re facing unprecedented levels of pollution in the natural environment and in our air. That’s why I’m proud that the Royal Society of Chemistry is leading the way by expanding their sustainability journals portfolio with these three new journals – providing a home for even more cutting-edge research to help tackle the urgent issues facing us all.”

All three new journals will be Gold Open Access from launch, offering readers no barriers to reading the published work, ensuring research can reach a global readership. Additionally, all article processing charges (APCs) are waived until-2025. All journals will open for submissions in summer 2022.