Sustainable Energy & Fuels Blog

We are delighted to introduce our newest Associate Editor for Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Professor Fuxiang Zhang.

Fuxiang Zhang received his PhD degree from Nankai University, China in 2004, and became a full professor of physical chemistry at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. Prior to this appointment he worked as a postdoc at Pierre and Marie Curie University and the University of Tokyo. As leader of a research group focused on materials and catalysis for solar hydrogen production and storage at DICP, Fuxiang is now working with his colleagues for solar-to-chemical conversion involving photocatalysis for overall water splitting, electrocatalysis, precise synthesis of materials and in situ characterization as well as understanding of catalytic reaction mechanisms. His team has assembled a series of powder-suspended systems for visible-light-driven overall water splitting to produce hydrogen with high quantum efficiency, and have published ~200 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of material science and heterogeneous photo/electrocatalysis.

As well as his role with Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Fuxiang is an Associate Editor for Journal of Energy Chemistry, and an Editorial Board member for journals such as National Science Review, Science China Chemistry and eScience. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Zhang to his new role with Sustainable Energy & Fuels!

Our latest Sustainable Energy & Fuels themed collection, Next-generation battery technologies beyond Lithium, is now open for submissions.

This Sustainable Energy & Fuels themed collection, guest edited by Chunmei Ban (University of Colorado Boulder, USA), Guillermo Alvarez Ferrero (Humboldt University, Germany), Marta Sevilla (Instituto Nacional del Carbón – CSIC, Spain) and Feixiang Wu (Central South University, China) will highlight alternatives to lithium-based battery designs and technologies

Lithium-ion based batteries are an essential part of the world’s energy infrastructure, however lithium-based energy storage systems have challenges in terms of safety, global demand for lithium, energy intensive production and ease of recycling. This collection aims to highlight alternative materials, electrolytes and technologies to develop the next generation of non-lithium batteries

Topics in scope for this collection include, but are not limited to, alternative alkali and alkali-earth metal batteries (including metal-ion, metal-air and sulfur-based systems), all solid-state batteries, multivalent batteries, and other technologies for non-lithium ion energy storage (e.g., redox flow batteries or dual-ion batteries). We especially value studies that prioritize sustainability as a central focus and encourage life cycle assessment studies.

The deadline for submissions is 30th April 2025.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please add the themed collection code “SEBeyond24” when prompted at submission. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check the suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and the inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. Please also note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Sustainable Energy & Fuels. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer-review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online and they will be published in a regular issue of Sustainable Energy & Fuels.

Authors are welcome to submit original research as a Communication article or Full Paper or contribute a Review or Perspective article. If you have any questions about the collection, please do get in touch with the Editorial Office.

We are delighted to announce that Wenming Yang (National University of Singapore) has joined the Sustainable Energy & Fuels Advisory Board!

Wenming has been an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore since 2017. His research interests include internal combustion engines fuelled by biofuels and blend fuels, development of advanced platform for boilers with high efficiency and low emissions, incinerators and micro power generators, as well as similar areas.

For more information about Sustainable Energy & Fuels and our Board Members click here

We are delighted to open our latest Sustainable Energy & Fuels themed collection titled ‘Metal-Free Photo/Electrocatalysts for Sustainable Energy Solutions‘ to submissions. Guest edited by Menny Shalom (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Sebastian Sprick (University of Strathclyde, UK) and Xinchen Wang (Fuzhou University, China), it will showcase metal-free photo- and electrocatalytic materials for sustainable energy applications.

Photo- and electrocatalysis are promising research areas for sustainable energy applications and chemicals production. Metal-free photo- and electrocatalysts for energy conversion potentially offer a low-cost and efficient solution. These materials include carbon nitrides, boron carbon nitrides, triazine-based frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, conjugated materials as well as composites and biohybrid systems. This collection aims to highlight the unique properties of metal-free photo- and electrocatalysts and their important energy applications such as photocatalytic water splitting, carbon dioxide reduction, hydrogen peroxide production and organic transformation reactions.

The deadline for submissions is 20th December 2024.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please add the themed collection code “SEMFree23” when prompted at submission. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check the suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and the inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. Please also note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Sustainable Energy & Fuels. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer-review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online and they will be published in a regular issue of Sustainable Energy & Fuels.

Authors are welcome to submit original research as a Communication article or Full Paper or contribute a Review or Perspective article. If you have any questions about the collection, please do get in touch with the Editorial Office.