Issue #3 (2012) Now Online!

Improving the Efficiency of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Dye-sensitive solar cells are considered the most promising next generation solar cells because they are easy and inexpensive to build.

Bringing Science to MENA and Energy to Europe, Frank Lehner

Physicist Frank Lehner discusses the idea of generating solar energy on a large scale in the sun-intensive countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Interviews and Speeches

The SunShot Initiative's mission is to develop solar energy technologies through a collaborative national push to make solar Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) energy technologies cost-competitive with fossil fuel based energy.

Announcements

See March 2012 issue for Special Topic on the Tenth International Congress of the Mexican Society of Hydrogen–Renewable Energies, Toluca, Mexico, 2010.
Recently published! Editorial: Desertec project—when science joins politics by Associate Editor Abdelilah Slaoui. Dr. Slaoui is a CNRS research director at Institut d'Electronique du Solide et des Systèmes in Strasbourg, France, Past-President of the European Material Research Society, and is currently serving as an expert for a number of national and European projects.
2012 European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy will be represented by AIP Publishing stand #63 at the European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, 15-17 May, in Strasbourg, France.
Chances to win an iPod® nano
See Jan 2012 issue for Special Topic on Selected Papers from the Photovoltaic Technical Conference, Aix en Provence, France, 2011.
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy is Now Available by Subscription
As of 1 March 2012, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy will only be accessible through a subscription. Please recommend JRSE to your library using the Librarian Recommendation Form.
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy is adding new features to the journal website: Check out the “Most Read” and “Most Cited” on the journal homepage to find out the most downloaded articles for the month and papers that are most highly cited by other scientific researchers.
Journal metrics released by Thomson Reuters* include Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy for the first time.
*2010 Journal Citation Reports^® (Thomson Reuters, 2011)
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy is pleased to announce that Stony Brook University Professor and JRSE Associate Editor, Devinder Mahajan, has been named a 2011-2012 Jefferson Science Fellow.
Dr. Michio Kondo joins Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy as new Associate Editor.