Welcome to the second volume of Sustainable Energy & Fuels
Happy new year, and welcome to the second volume of Sustainable Energy & Fuels.When Sustainable Energy & Fuels was launched in the spring of 2017, our aim was to create a home for transformational research driving the development of sustainable energy technologies. We are delighted at the evolution of the journal over the first year, and we continue to strive towards being an invaluable resource for those working to address this key challenge for the 21st century.
We are delighted that the launch of Sustainable Energy & Fuels has been very positively received by the community; reflecting the first-class research being published in the journal. In the first year, our content demonstrates the exceptional quality, innovation and diversity of this rapidly moving field, and the collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of the community working to solve our future energy needs. This is demonstrated by just a few articles which have been particularly well received by referees over the past months; the electrochemical performance of different membrane-containing electrolyte-flow schemes for solar-driven water splitting has been studied (DOI: 10.1039/c7se00062f); carbon onions have been explored for the first time as a substrate material for lithium sulfur cathodes (DOI: 10.1039/c6se00034g); and fast pyrolysis combined with electrocatalytic energy upgrading using renewable electricity was proposed as a more carbon-retentive pathway for biomass to renewable fuels (DOI: 10.1039/c6se00080k). We have also published some excellent reviews, including that focused on recent advances in hybrid photoelectrodes for H2 or O2 evolution (DOI: 10.1039/c7se00222j) and understanding of perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) fuel cell membrane degradation phenomena (DOI: 10.1039/c7se00038c), to highlight just a few. We look forward to continuing to shape the journal with the Editorial Board as a venue for work solving our future energy needs – watch out for the upcoming themed issue on artificial photosynthesis later this year!
Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all those that have supported and contributed to the journal in its first year; from our Editorial and Advisory Board members, to our authors, referees and readers. Your support is integral to the excellent start the journal has had; we hope that you will continue to support Sustainable Energy & Fuels as it develops in the coming years and consider the journal as a potential home for your research. Sustainable Energy & Fuels will continue to be free to access in 2018, which will provide maximum visibility for content. We welcome any comments, feedback or suggestions if you would like to get in touch with us at E-mail: sustainableenergy-rsc@rsc.org and Anna Simpson and Katie Lim, the journal’s Executive and Deputy Editor, look forward to meeting you at upcoming conferences to discuss the journal and developments in research focused on ensuring a sustainable future.
James Durrant, Editor-in-Chief, Imperial College London and Swansea University, UK
Anna Simpson, Executive Editor, Royal Society of Chemistry
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