Energy Materials

Energy Materials is a ‘virtual journal’ covering current research on materials for energy generation and storage drawn from the peer reviewed journals of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). Appearing quarterly, Energy Materials will draw together a selection of the latest research papers from the Institute’s journals, and special commissioned issues on a particular theme from Materials Research Innovations. The Institute’s activity in energy materials extends from publications and conferences, through its interest in technology transfer via the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network, to strategic contributions to government policy development, and it is the intention to reflect a broad range of these activities as the journal develops.

The Editors of Energy Materials are 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, they will select the content of each issue of the journal and direct the commissioning of material through the Group and other Institute activities.

An important part of the virtual journal concept is the ability to accommodate a broad and balanced range of content on all aspects of energy materials, from thermal and nuclear materials, to the structural ceramics and functional materials required in fuel cells, solar and other renewable energy sources. Working with editors of the Institute’s other peer reviewed journals, the Editors will stimulate and commission a growing quantity of research papers, reviews and commentaries reflecting the latest research in energy materials. An initial commitment has been made to commission one energy materials theme issue of the journal Materials Research Innovations in 2011 and 2012, moving to two issues in 2013. Alongside this, the Editors will seek to stimulate energy related contributions, either single papers or groups of material, in the Institute’s other general and specialist journals.