A new journal linking all aspects of the chemical sciences relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies and environmental science.
News and Interviews
A range of energy related articles and interviews that have appeared in the RSC supplements Chemical Science, Chemical Technology and Chemical Biology.
Edible electricity
03 March 2008
Singaporean and Japanese scientists are capturing the potential of bacteria-powered fuel cells
Interview: Model behaviour
12 February 2008
Stephen Klippenstein tells Hilary Crichton how theoretical chemistry can help solve global warming
Ironing out fuel cells
11 February 2008
A simple iron complex could pave the way for new oxygen reduction catalysts with potential uses in low-temperature fuel cells
Water splitting
22 November 2007
A team of Italian scientists has created a sunlight-powered cell that produces pure hydrogen from water
Instant insight: A bright future
19 September 2007
Andy Benniston explains how photocatalysts could provide the answer to the planet's energy crisis.
Finding fission by-products
13 September 2007
Researchers in Canada have developed a method for the rapid ultra-trace measurement of strontium 90 in environmental samples.
China's pollution headache
16 August 2007
Chinese scientists have found concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in some Chinese cities to be among the highest in the world.
Window into nanospace could boost batteries
08 August 2007
Investigating how nickel hydroxide crystals grow in nanospace could lead to improved performance of rechargeable batteries, say scientists in Japan.
Latest biomaterials offer fuel cell hope
06 August 2007
Carbon nanotube scaffolds that can support bacterial cells could be used as electrodes in microbial fuel cells.
Cool fuel
23 July 2007
Materials scientists from Spain and the UK have made a cathode material that allows solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to be used at lower temperatures.
From glycerol to gas
13 July 2007
Liquid alkane fuel can be produced from a by-product of biomass processing, thanks to researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US.
Instant insight: An adsorbing tale
11 July 2007
Hong-Cai (Joe) Zhou at Miami University, Ohio, US, describes how metal-organic frameworks could play their part in the hydrogen economy.
Cheaper biodiesel
05 July 2007
Producing biodiesel from cheap feedstocks could become easier and more environmentally friendly thanks to scientists in the US.
Instant insight: Back in black
24 May 2007
Markus Antonietti, Arne Thomas and Maria Titirici discuss the hydrothermal carbonization of biomass - is it a solution to the CO2 problem?
Interview: Light and life
18 May 2007
Are lawnmowers a thing of the past? Pill-Soon Song explains all to Celia Clarke.
The drive to reform methanol
11 May 2007
Decomposing hydrogen peroxide to power hydrogen production from methanol improves fuel cell efficiency.
Hot-wiring enzymes for fuel cells
10 May 2007
Using anthracene to link laccase to electrodes delivers electrons straight to the active site.
Super solar cells
26 April 2007
Supramolecular dyes could boost efficiency in solar cells, say scientists from the UK.
Gentlemen, plug in your engines
05 April 2007
The dream of environmentally friendly electric cars is a step closer to reality thanks to work by scientists in the UK and China.
Safer storage of nuclear waste
05 April 2007
Nuclear waste repositories could be safer places thanks to UK chemists.
A sweet future for biodiesel
26 March 2007
Sugar catalysts can turn waste vegetable oil into biodiesel, researchers have revealed.
Clean fuel?
19 March 2007
Equipment for the continuous monitoring of trace elements in gas from a biofuel gasification reactor has been developed by UK and German scientists.
Flexible battery power
15 March 2007
Japanese scientists have made a paper-like, polymer-based rechargeable battery.
Is solar UV frying fish?
27 February 2007
A UN report into the impact of ozone layer depletion on aquatic ecosystems reveals wider links between UV levels and global warming.
Simply biofuels
13 February 2007
A simple enzyme-based biofuel cell has been made by a team of Japanese scientists.
Better fuel through chemistry
19 January 2007
It would be cheaper and cleaner to produce fuel from Fischer-Tropsch syncrude than from crude oil, according to a South African researcher.
Interview: Sugar solutions
10 January 2007
Ben Davis talks to James Mitchell Crow about 'nature's fuzzy logic.'
Interview: Making light of biology
08 December 2006
Wolfgang Lubitz puts metalloproteins on the map. Joanne Thomson asks how...
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