Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) have announced the launch of Energy Materials – an online only ‘virtual journal’ covering current research on materials for energy generation and storage drawn from the Institute’s peer reviewed journals. Appearing quarterly, Energy Materials will draw together a selection of the latest research papers, and specially commissioned issues on a particular theme from Materials Research Innovations.
Energy Materials will be edited by Professor Stuart Irvine, Director of the Glyndŵr University Centre for Solar Energy Research, OpTIC Glyndŵr, and Professor Peter Flewitt, University of Bristol and Board Member, the Bristol–Oxford Nuclear Research Centre. As Chair and Vice-Chair of the Institute’s Energy Materials Group (EMG) they will select the content of each issue and direct the commissioning of material through the EMG, in collaboration with the editors of other Institute journals.
Energy Materials will launch in March with an issue focusing on photocatalyst materials, principally titanium dioxide, for hydrogen generation and other specialist applications such as sterilisation of water supplies. The virtual journal will also include an extensive range of recent research, including the papers appearing in the first energy materials issue of Materials Research Innovations.
The innovative concept of a virtual journal will highlight the output of the Institute’s extensive energy materials activities, reflecting the broad range of materials contributions within this increasingly important sector. In this respect Energy Materials will serve as a focus for the growing community with an interest in energy materials research and applications.
