Energy & Environmental Science is delighted to announce a high-profile themed issue on Fuels of the Future, Guest Edited by Professor Ben W.-L. Jang (Texas A&M), Professor Roger Gläser (Leipzig), Professor Chang-jun Liu (Tianjin) and Professor Mingdong Dong (Harvard). It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.      

Our themed issue on Fuels of the Future focuses on the design, development, analysis and processing of future fuels, including fossil fuels and biofuels, which sustain the environment in a way that is both feasible and economically viable. The issue will provide a critical forum for the presentation of the newest research, progress and innovations in this truly international field, and is set to be a landmark. With the issue we especially emphasize both the energy and the environmental aspects of future fuels, and welcome submissions in the following areas: 

1. Alternative feedstocks for synthetic fuel (natural gas, biogas, syngas, ethanol, others)  
2. Alternative processes for clean fuels (scCO2, ionic liquids, gas expanded liquids, others)  
3. Ultraclean fuels from conventional or renewable sources  
4. Analytical and characterisation methods  
5. Novel catalysts and nanomaterials (synthesis, properties and applications)    

• The printed themed issue will be displayed and freely-distributed at several relevant high-profile conferences, including the Spring 2010 ACS National Meeting symposium on the same topic, maximising the visibility of work published.   
  
  
• Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research. Both Communications and Full Papers can be submitted for consideration. All submissions will be subject to rigorous yet fair peer review by international experts to meet the usual high standards of Energy & Environmental Science. If you are interested in writing a feature review article, please get in touch. 
  
  
• The keynote invited authors (and symposium speakers) are George Huber (U Mass), Walter Leitner (RWTH Aachen), Jerry Spivey (LSU), Annegret Stark (University of Jena), Chunshan Song (PSU), Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos (Tufts), Flemming Besenbacher (Aarhus), Lijun Wang (Beijing), D. Wayne Goodman (Texas A&M) and Sang H. Moon (Chairman of International Congress of Catalysis). 
  
  
• The deadline for submissions is 13 November 2009, though submissions before this date are of course welcomed. 
  
  
• All accepted contributions will be published online (in a fully citeable form) as soon as they are ready, and then published together in a single print themed issue in spring 2010. 
  
  
• All contributing authors will be sent a free copy of the printed issue. 
  
  
• Manuscripts can be easily submitted (in almost any electronic format and reasonable layout), either through the ReSouCe web submissions service or simply as an email attachment to the Energy & Environmental Science Editorial Office. Please indicate on submission that the article is intended for the themed issue.