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Chemical Science, along with RSC journals RSC Advances, Energy & Environmental Science, Sustainable Energy & Fuels and Nanoscale Advances are pleased to be sponsoring the Charge & Substrate Transport in 3D Electrocatalytic Materials symposium at the ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting and Exposition in San Diego this August. It will be held at 8:30 am on Tuesday 27th in the Marina Ballroom Salon G at Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina.

Organized by Anthony Hall, Charles McCrory and V. Sara Thoi as part of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, this symposia will be presided by Charles McCrory (University of Michigan) and feature presentations from Shelley D Minteer (University of Utah), Daniel Esposito (Columbia University), Yogesh Surendranath (MIT), Joseph Thomas Hupp (Northwestern University), Casey R Wade (Ohio State University), Amanda J Morris (Virginia Tech) as well as Charles McCrory.

The 7^th UK Solar Fuels Network Symposium was held at the University of Cambridge, UK on 28^th – 29^th February 2019. The meeting was chaired by Professor Erwin Reisner, director of the Solar Fuels Network. Chemical Science were proud to sponsor the meeting, alongside Energy & Environmental Science and Sustainable Energy & Fuels, which are other Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

The meeting was an opportunity to bring together members of the Solar Fuels Network to meet up and discuss the latest advances in the field of solar-driven fuels research and provided an excellent opportunity for interaction with the rapidly expanding network of Solar Fuels researchers in the UK and beyond. The main meeting was followed by a half day post-graduate symposium at which PhD students and early career researchers had the opportunity to present their work. This meeting made up part of a larger ‘Solar Fuels Week’, taking place after the Artificial Photosynthesis Faraday Discussion and the Doppler Symposium.

Chemical Science Assistant Editor Carri Cotton was in attendance to meet with the delegates and represent the Royal Society of Chemistry. She also helped present a talk prize on behalf of Chemical Science and some poster prizes on behalf of Energy & Environmental Science and Sustainable Energy & Fuels:

• Chemical Science talk prize winner: Katarzyna Sokol
• Energy & Environmental Science poster prize winner: Hui Luo
• Sustainable Energy & Fuels poster prize winner: Alexander Kibler

Chemical Science talk prize winner, Katarzyna Sokol (left) awarded by Carri Cotton

Energy & Environmental Science and Sustainable Energy & Fuels poster prize winners Hui Luo (left) and Alexander Kibler (right)

Congratulations to all of the prize winners from everyone at Chemical Science!

Registration is now open for our Chemical Science symposia, which are to be held in two locations in China (Harbin and Xiamen) in December.

The NSFC-RSC International Symposium on Energy Chemistry will be held in Harbin, China from 7th-9th of December, you can register now here.

The Chemical Science Symposium on Sustainable Energy will be held in Xiamen, China on 10th of December, you can register now here.

The theme of the Chemical Science Symposium will be renewable energy and sustainability, bringing together leading researchers in the field of energy science and related subjects. The primary focus will be on recent advances in sustainable and renewable energy including solar energy conversion, artificial photosynthesis, photocatalysts, water splitting, gas capture, separation and storage and fuel cells. The symposia will also cover interdisciplinary studies at the energy interface with other subjects such as the properties and applications of materials for energy and sustainability, nanotechnology, photocatalysis, photonics and biotechnology.

Chemical Science Associate Editors Vincent Artero, Kazunari Domen, James McCusker and Jihong Yu will be speaking at both symposia, and Executive Editor May Copsey will be attending.

We look forward to seeing you there!