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Impact factor: 5.503*
Publishing frequency: 24 issues per year
Editor-in-chief: Garry Rumbles

Scope

Sustainable Energy & Fuels publishes high quality scientific research that will drive the development of sustainable energy technologies, with a particular emphasis on innovative concepts and approaches.

The journal is an essential resource for energy researchers and cuts across major disciplines – chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and engineering – covering evolving and emerging areas, including:

Solar energy conversion including photovoltaics and artificial photosynthesis
Energy storage including batteries, flow batteries and supercapacitors
Catalysis for energy technologies, including the sustainable synthesis of fuels and chemicals, and molecular/bioinspired catalysis
Electrocatalysis and photocatalysis
Fuel cells
Hydrogen production, storage and distribution
Carbon dioxide utilisation, including fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide
Biorefining and Biofuels
Capacitive desalination and desalination batteries
Other sustainable energy conversion technologies including thermochemical, piezoelectric and thermoelectric materials and devices

Why publish in Sustainable Energy & Fuels?

Sustainable Energy & Fuels publishes high quality articles in energy research.

Sustainable Energy & Fuels authors will benefit from the following:

Rapid publication times
Simple and user-friendly online submission process
Free use of colour
No page charges
No page limits
Open access publishing options
Free electronic reprints (PDF) of own paper

Editor-in-chief

Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Associate editors

Ryu Abe, Kyoto University, Japan

Francesca Brunetti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

David Mitlin, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Marta Sevilla, Instituto Nacional del Carbón - CSIC, Spain

Xinchen Wang, Fuzhou University, China

Karen Wilson, RMIT University, Australia

Vincent Artero, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, France

Chunmei Ban, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

Juan Bisquert, Jaume I University, Spain

Christoph Brabec, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Jaephil Cho, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea

Cyrille Costentin, Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Seth Darling, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Benjamin Dietzek, Jena Institte of photonics, Germany

Marie-Liesse Doublet, CNRS and Université Montpellier, France

Gordana Dukovic, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

James Durrant, Imperial College London and Swansea University, UK

Heinz Frei, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Elizabeth Gibson, University of Newcastle, UK

Anders Hagfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden

Justin Hodgkiss, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Libai Huang, Purdue University, USA

Osamu Ishitani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Anne Jones, Arizona State University, USA

Kisuk Kang, Seoul National University, Korea

Frédéric Laquai, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Xianfeng Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China

Doug MacFarlane, Monash University, Australia

Chris McNeill, Monash University, Australia

Shirley Meng, University of California, San Diego, USA

Johannes Messinger, Uppsala University, Sweden

Robert Mokaya, University of Nottingham, UK

Satishchandra Ogale, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

Emilio Palomares, Catalan Institute of Chemical Research, Spain

Xiulian Pan, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China

Alissa Park, Columbia University, USA

Nam-Gyu Park, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Volker Presser, Saarland University, Germany

Amy Prieto, Colorado State University, USA

Liangti Qu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Erin Ratcliff, University of Arizona, USA

Srinivasan Sampath, Indian Institute of Science, India

Uwe Schroder, TU-Braunschweig, Germany

Junwang Tang, University College London, UK

Roel van de Krol, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany

Koen Vandewal, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Aron Walsh, Imperial College London, UK

Aiqin Wang, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China

Michael Wasielewski, Northwestern University, USA

Neil Scriven, Executive Editor

Bianca Provost, Deputy Editor

Claire Darby, Editorial Production Manager

Grace Thoburn, Development Editor

Sam Keltie, Publisher

Claire Hedgecott, Publishing Editor

Sarah Holmes, Publishing Editor

Sophie Orchard, Publishing Editor

Peter Seavill, Publishing Editor

Michael Spencelayh, Publishing Editor

Kate Bandoo, Editorial Assistant

Robert Griffiths, Publishing Assistant

Article types

Sustainable Energy & Fuels will publish:

Communications
Full papers
Reviews
Perspectives
Comments

See more information about these article types

Communications

These contain either a complete study or a preliminary report, but in either case must contain original and highly significant work whose interest to the Sustainable Energy & Fuels readership and high novelty warrants rapid publication. Authors should supply with their submission a justification of why the work merits urgent publication as a Communication. Referees will be asked to judge the work on these grounds.

Communications are given high visibility within the journal as they are published at the front of an issue. Communications will not normally exceed the length of four printed journal pages.

Full papers

Full papers contain original scientific work that has not been published previously. There are no restrictions on the length of a paper. Authors should include a brief discussion in the Introduction that sets the context for the novel work and gives their motivation for carrying out the study.

Reviews & Perspectives

These are normally commissioned by the editorial board and editorial office, although suggestions from readers for topics and authors of reviews are most welcome and should be directed to the editor.

Reviews and Perspectives must be high quality, authoritative, state-of-the-art accounts of the selected research field. They should be timely and add to the existing literature, rather than duplicate existing articles, and should be of general interest to the journal's wide readership.

All Reviews and Perspectives undergo a rigorous and full peer review procedure, in the same way as regular research papers. Notes on the preparation of these articles are available from the editor, and will be provided to referees.

Review articles report a detailed, balanced and authoritative current account of the selected research field. Review articles normally comprise 10,000 or more words of text, together with supporting figures and tables.

Perspectives present an authoritative state-of-the-art account of a research field. A Perspective may take the form of a personal account of research, or a critical analysis of a topic of current interest. In either form, some new unpublished research may be included. Perspectives normally comprise 5,000 to 10,000 words of text, together with supporting figures and tables.

Comments

Comments and Replies are a medium for the discussion and exchange of scientific opinions between authors and readers concerning material published in Sustainable Energy & Fuels.

For publication, a Comment should present an alternative analysis of and/or new insight into the previously published material. Any Reply should further the discussion presented in the original article and the Comment. Comments and Replies that contain any form of personal attack are not suitable for publication.

Comments that are acceptable for publication will be forwarded to the authors of the work being discussed, and these authors will be given the opportunity to submit a Reply. The Comment and Reply will both be subject to rigorous peer review in consultation with the journal’s Editorial Board where appropriate. The Comment and Reply will be published together.

Journal specific guidelines

The following guidelines are journal specific. For general guidance on preparing an article please visit our Prepare your article and Resources for authors pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals.

Reporting efficiencies of solar conversion devices

Guideline statement

Authors and referees should note the following guidelines for articles reporting the efficiency of solar conversion devices. Authors should ensure the following information is provided in the main manuscript or supplementary information as appropriate.

Efficiencies should be reported to an appropriate number of significant figures, along with a standard deviation. This also includes presenting error bars on graphs.

A sufficient number of samples should be tested, and a sufficient number of trials performed.

The 1 Sun AM 1.5G reference spectrum should be used as standard for testing power conversion efficiency and a justification provided where this is not used.

Full experimental conditions under which the efficiency is measured should be declared. Special attention should be paid to documenting the active area of the device, the calibration protocol and properties of the illumination including spectral irradiance and intensity. This may also include as appropriate, but is not limited to, air temperature, use of a glove box, properties and characteristics of the test cell and standardized cell used for calibration, including dimensions and spatial non-uniformity, and calibration and measurement protocols.

Independent certification of the photovoltaic performance of the device being reported is encouraged when the main claims rely on the absolute efficiency value being reported.

If incident photon-to-current efficiency (IPCE), also referred to as external quantum efficiency (EQE) measurements are performed, the results should be integrated to a resulting short circuit current that can be compared with 1 Sun AM 1.5G power conversion efficiency data. The details of how this calculation is done and any correction factors should be clearly defined.

If hysteresis is observed, details on timescale and stability of the efficiency should be provided.

Readership information

The journal appeals to a broad international readership spanning many communities, including all academic and industrial scientists interested in the development of alternative sustainable energy technologies.

Subscription information

Online only 2021: ISSN 2398-4902, £2,811 / $4,758

*2019 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)