Energy Advances Blog

We are pleased to announce new appointments we have made to the Energy Advances Advisory Board. Please join us in welcoming the following additions to the Energy Advances family:

• Sarbajit Banerjee (Texas A&M University, USA)
• Graeme Cooke (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Benjamin Dietzek (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
• Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China)
• Baizeng Fang (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Kui Jiao (Tianjin University, China)
• Heather MacLean (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
• Valeska Ting (University of Bristol, UK)
• Ajayan Vinu (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
• Naoaki Yabuuchi (Yokohama National University, Japan)

Our Advisory Board play an important role in assisting our editorial team with submissions to the journal, so we are very excited to have them on board. More Advisory Board members will be announced soon, so sign up to receive the latest updates.

We are excited to announce a new showcase collection entitled ‘Energy Frontiers: Hydrogen‘ to highlight the latest cutting-edge research on hydrogen technologies for a more sustainable future, including hydrogen production, storage, decarbonisation, scale-up and more. Join us for our related LiveStream session on this topic on 15th November 2022!

The collection spans many RSC journals publishing high quality energy content, including Energy Advances, Energy & Environmental Science, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Chemical Society Reviews, Chemical Science.

It is expected that the use of Hydrogen will contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of the energy sector, and many Hydrogen production routes (like water electrolysis) are renewable and low-carbon. There are many challenges associated with widespread implementation of Hydrogen technologies however, meaning that continued research and innovation into this topic is as important as ever.

What do you envision to be the next frontier in Hydrogen Energy technologies? If you’re working at the forefront of this research area we welcome you to submit your own hydrogen energy research to our journals.

Read the full collection here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=ee&themeid=e032334e-dec7-43d5-b6da-3958cb0b3492

Reflective of the importance of energy storage to achieving the UN SDGs, the journal is led by Editor-in-Chief Professor Volker Presser (Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany) whose research explores electrochemical materials and processes for energy storage. Our Editorial Board members include three further prominent energy storage experts who also handle papers from submission to decision: Professor Guang Feng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), Professor Michael Naguib (Tulane University, USA) and Professor Matthew Suss (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel).

Associate Editor Guang Feng

Editor-in-Chief Volker Presser

Associate Editor Michael Naguib

Associate Editor Matthew Suss

We also wanted to highlight recent publications in Energy Advances which are relevant to energy storage research:

Recent progress in ZnCo2O4 and its composites for energy storage and conversion: a review by Josué M. Gonçalves and Lucio Angnes et al.

Nonaqueous hybrid redox flow energy storage with a sodium–TEMPO chemistry and a single-ion solid electrolyte separator by Xingwen Yu and Arumugam Manthiram

SNG based energy storage systems with subsurface CO2 storage by Stefan Fogel et al.

Submit your energy storage research to one of our Associate Editors today: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/energyadv

We are delighted to see that Professor Volker Presser, Editor-in-Chief of Energy Advances, has recently been awarded the prestigious Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry for 2022 by the International Society of Electrochemistry. Huge congratulations to Professor Presser!

We’re delighted to share this fantastic infographic which explores the dynamic relationship between the acoustic activity and the rate of electrochemical reaction inside a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) by correlating acoustic emission from PEMFCs with their performance using different time-based characterisations, which was published in Issue 1 of Energy Advances. Read the entire open-access article at:

‘Dynamic acoustic emission analysis of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells’

D. J. L. Brett and  M.-O. Coppens et al., Energy Adv., 2022, 1, 258-268

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2YA00037G

Energy Advances proudly sponsored the 2^nd international MXene Conference held at Drexel University, US, at the start of August over three days. The conference aimed to showcase major MXene discoveries while bringing the technological potential of MXenes to the attention of industries, federal and state governments, funding agencies, and decision-makers.

The event was also attended by Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor Professor Michael Naguib, one of the inventors of MXenes. “As the MXenes community continues to grow, it was timely and necessary to get together and discuss challenges and opportunities for MXenes in several fields, including energy” explains Professor Naguib. “This will help to establish a roadmap for MXenes research in the coming years.”

The MXene Conference was a great success with much positive feedback from speakers, panelists, poster presenters, and attendees from around the world and we were very happy to lend our support. You can find out more about the conference here: https://mxeneconference.coe.drexel.edu/.

Professor Michael Naguib presenting at the 2nd MXene Conference at Drexel University

We are very pleased to announce that Anita Ho-Baillie (University of Sydney, Australia) has joined the Energy Advances team as an Associate Editor.

Anita Ho-Baillie is the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney, an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales. She is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher from 2019 and 2021.

Her research is on solar photovoltaic materials and devices including single junctions and multi-junction tandems.

She has been named the leader in Sustainable Energy Research in 2021 by the Australian Newspaper Annual Research Magazine. She is also an Australian Museum Eureka Prize Finalist in 2021.

Read her latest work in related RSC Energy and Physical Chemistry journals:

Efficient and stable wide bandgap perovskite solar cells through surface passivation with long alkyl chain organic cations
The Duong, Huyen Pham, Yanting Yin, Jun Peng, Md Arafat Mahmud, YiLiang Wu, Heping Shen, Jianghui Zheng, Thanh Tran-Phu, Teng Lu, Li Li, Anand Kumar, Gunther G. Andersson, Anita Ho-Baillie, Yun Liu, Thomas White, Klaus Weber and Kylie Catchpole*
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 18454-18465

Light-activated inorganic CsPbBr₂I perovskite for room-temperature self-powered chemical sensing
Hongjun Chen*, Meng Zhang, Xiao Fu, Zelio Fusco, Renheng Bo, Bobo Xing, Hieu T. Nguyen, Chog Barugkin, Jianghui Zheng, Cho Fai Jonathan Lau, Shujuan Huang, Anita W. Y. Ho-Baillie, Kylie R. Catchpole and Antonio Tricoli*
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 24187-24193

We’re pleased to share this great infographic detailing the use of density functional theory calculations to predict an increase in catalytic activity by doping anatase TiO₂ with manganese atoms (Mn), which was published in Issue 1 of Energy Advances. Read the entire open-access article at:

‘Effect of doping TiO₂ with Mn for electrocatalytic oxidation in acid and alkaline electrolytes’

 Samira Siahrostami and Xiaolin Zheng et al., Energy Adv., 2022, 1, 357-366

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2YA00027J

We’re delighted to share this great infographic detailing a roadmap for automotive battery technology and its production process throughout 2030 based on market expectations and expert knowledge, which was published in Issue 1 of Energy Advances. Read the entire open-access article at:

‘Technological innovation vs. tightening raw material markets: falling battery costs put at risk’

Lukas Mauler et al., Energy Adv., 2022, 1, 136-145

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1YA00052G

We’re excited to share this latest eye-catching infographic about employing polyacrylonitrile (PAN) as a defect passivator for CsPbI₃ perovskite films where the unencapsulated CsPbI₃ perovskite cells exhibited superior thermal and humidity stability with 16.21% power conversion efficiency, which was published in Issue 1 of Energy Advances. Read the entire open-access article at:

‘Stabilizing all-inorganic CsPbI₃ perovskite films with polyacrylonitrile for photovoltaic solar cells’

Ke-Jian Jiang, Yiqiang Zhang and Yanlin Song et al., Energy Adv., 2022, 1, 62-66

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1YA00068C