Sustainable Energy & Fuels are glad to support the 3rd International School on Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics, taking place in Chernogolovka, Russia and online from 22nd – 25th November 2021.
Register before the 20th November deadline
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International Solar Fuels Conference 2021
11 Mar 2021
We are delighted to support the International Solar Fuels conference 2021, organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry in conjunction with the University of Grenoble and Uppsala University. This conference will take place online from the 26th – 29th July 2021.
The main conference will be preceded by the Young conference, which aims to give as many young researchers as possible the opportunity to present. This will also include keynote talks from mentoring experts, and careers advice from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The programme will explore all aspects of direct solar fuel production, combining biological, molecular and solid state approaches. The main themes include:
- Multi-electron/multi-proton catalysis (homogeneous, heterogeneous, enzymatic and bioinspired processes)
- Light-harvesting and light-driven processes
- Photoelectrochemistry
- Photobiological approaches
- Metabolic engineering
- Devices and demonstration: robustness, sustainability and upscale
Submit your oral abstract to the mainconference or the Young conference before 06 April 2021
Submit your poster abstract to the main conference or the Young conference by 7 June 2021
Find out more and register here
New Themed Issue – Organic Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
27 Jan 2021
We are delighted to highlight the latest Sustainable Energy & Fuels themed issue on Organic Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage.
Guest Edited by Emilio Palomares (ICIQ and ICREA) and Juan Luis Delgado (Ikerbasque and Polymat), this issue showcases studies on the recent progress and challenges in the field of organic, inorganic and hybrid materials for energy conversion. This includes advances in photovoltaics, solar to fuels conversion, and catalysis for sustainable energy applications. You can read our Editorial introducing this issue here.
In addition to the Open Access articles in this issue, all articles are free to access until 28th February.
Below is a small selection of some of the articles featured in the issue:
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A low temperature aqueous formate fuel cell using cobalt hexacyanoferrate as a non-noble metal oxidation catalyst
Lijuan Han, Jesús González-Cobos, Irene Sánchez-Molina, Stefano Giancola, Scott J. Folkman, S. Giménez, A. Vidal-Ferran and José Ramón Galán-Mascarós* |
Antonela Gallastegui, Daniela Minudri, Nerea Casado, Nicolas Goujon, Fernando Ruipérez, Nagaraj Patil, Christophe Detrembleur, Rebeca Marcilla and David Mecerreyes*
| Benzothiadiazole-based photosensitizers for efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells and 8.7% efficiency semi-transparent mini-modules
Maxime Godfroy, Johan Liotier, Valid M. Mwalukuku, Damien Joly, Quentin Huaulmé, Lydia Cabau, Cyril Aumaitre, Yann Kervella, Stéphanie Narbey, Frédéric Oswald, Emilio Palomares, Carlos A. González Flores, Gerko Oskam and Renaud Demadrille* |
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Mine Ince*, Ren Kuboi, Tuncay Ince, Kuon Yoshimura, Daiki Motoyoshi, Masahiro Sonobe, Ryota Kudo, Shogo Mori*, Mutsumi Kimura* and Tomás Torres*
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Molecularly engineered thienyl-triphenylamine substituted zinc phthalocyanine as dopant free hole transporting materials in perovskite solar cells
Peng Huang, Adrián Hernández, Samrana Kazim, Javier Ortiz, Ángela Sastre-Santos* and Shahzada Ahmad* |
Mechanisms of photoredox catalysts: the role of optical spectroscopy
Noufal Kandoth*, Javier Pérez Hernández, Emilio Palomares and Julio Lloret-Fillol*
We hope that you enjoy reading the great research featured in this issue!
Emilio Palomares and Juan Luis Delgado
Outstanding Reviewers for Sustainable Energy & Fuels in 2019
09 Apr 2020
We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Sustainable Energy & Fuels in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.
We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.
Joel W. Ager III, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, ORCID: 0000-0001-9334-9751
Victor Ortiz-Martinez, University of Cartagena, ORCID: 0000-0002-9071-3009
Hajime Suzuki, Kyoto University, ORCID: 0000-0002-8891-2033
Sibo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, ORCID: 0000-0003-2656-9169
Zailai Xie, Fuzhou University, ORCID: 0000-0002-7694-7634
We would also like to thank the Sustainable Energy & Fuels board and the sustainable energy community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.
If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre
Sustainable Energy & Fuels first Impact Factor released as 4.912
21 Jun 2019
Sustainable Energy & Fuels (SEF) is delighted to announce its first Impact Factor of 4.912*.
We are delighted to see the support from the community over the last two years, contributing high quality scientific research that will drive the development of sustainable energy technologies!
We would like to thank all our authors, referees and readers who have contributed to this success, as well as the hard work from our Editorial and Advisory Board members to make this journal an important resource in the field of sustainable energy research.
Find the all the RSC’s journals newly published 2018 Impact Factors* here.
*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year, by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. Data provided by 2018 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics, 2019) (Thomson Reuters)
Introducing Sustainable Energy & Fuels Associate Editor: Professor Andrea Kruse
13 Nov 2018
Andrea Kruse, University Hohenheim, Germany
ORCiD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8156-139X
Andrea Kruse has studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and specialized in Chemical Engineering. After and during her PhD, she worked in the Research Centre Karlsruhe, now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the field of hydrothermal biomass conversion, mainly. She did her Habilitation with her studies in Supercritical Water Gasification at the Technical University Darmstadt, getting the “venia legendi” in chemical engineering.
Since 2012, she is holding the chair of Conversion Technologies of Biobased Resources at University of Hohenheim. Her main activities are the production of platform chemicals and materials from biomass, and the development of advanced separation processes for biorefineries. The focus is here to develop the whole value chain “from the field to the product”.
Submit your best sustainable energy and fuels research to Andrea Kruse now!
Read Andrea’s recent work here:
The effect of different Brønsted acids on the hydrothermal conversion of fructose to HMF. Paul Körner, Dennis Jung and Andrea Kruse. Green Chem., 2018, 20, 2231-2241. DOI: 10.1039/C8GC00435H
19 Apr 2018
The 2nd Asia-Pacific Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (AP-HOPV18) was held in Kitakyushu, Japan between 28-30 January 2018. Both Sustainable Energy & Fuels and Energy & Environmental Science, along with Materials Chemistry Frontiers and Journal of Materials Chemistry A supported the event by offering prizes for the best posters. These prizes were awarded to:
- Sustainable Energy & Fuel Award
Hong Duc (David) Pham, Queensland University of Technology
“Novel Low Cost Triphenylamine Derivatives based Hole Transporting Organic Materials for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells”
- Materials Chemistry Frontiers Award
Yuta Shirogane, Waseda University
“Perovskite Layer Formation with Polymer-Scaffold: Grain Structure Analysis and in-situ Conductive AFM Characterization”
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A Award
Molang Cai, National Institute for Materials Science
“Electrical Potential Distribution for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells”
- Energy & Environmental Science Award
Zeguo Tang, The University of Tokyo
“Optical properties of organometal halide perovskite with different composition of A-site cations”
L-R: Juan Bisquert, Hiromitsu Urakami, Molang Cai (5th left), Hong Duc (David) Pham (6th left), Yuta Shirogane (far right).
Introducing Sustainable Energy & Fuels Associate Editor: Professor Xinchen Wang
01 Mar 2018
Xinchen Wang, Fuzhou University, China
Professor Xinchen Wang is currently the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, and the Dean of the College of Chemistry in Fuzhou University. He obtained his BSc and MSc at Fuzhou University, and went to the Chinese University of Hong Kong to pursue his PhD. In 2006, he moved to Tokyo University as a JSPS post-Doctor, then he went to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, and was promoted to be a Group Leader 2008 until 2012. He started his Professorship in Fuzhou University at 2005. His research interests lie within catalysis and photocatalysis, where he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and has gained an H-index of 79.
Submit your best sustainable energy and fuels catalysis research to Xinchen Wang now!