ACS Applied Energy Materials
Author Guidelines
Scope Of The Journal
ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications. Sample research topics that span the journal’s scope are materials for energy storage including battery, supercapacitor, and redox flow batteries, fuel cell electrodes, catalysts, membranes and biofuel cells, solar cell materials including inorganic, hybrid, and organics, thermoelectric materials, solar fuel materials and processes, novel approaches to the synthesis of new and existing materials for energy storage and conversion, energy conversion materials, and electrochromic and thermochromic materials.
Manuscripts that are essentially reporting data or applications of data are, in general, not suitable for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. All manuscripts are subject to critical, anonymous peer review. It is to be understood that the final decision relating to a manuscript’s suitability rests solely with the Editor.
Manuscript Types
ACS Applied Energy Materials publishes 6 types of papers: Letters, Articles, Reviews, invited Spotlights on Applications, invited Forum Articles, and Comments.
A. Letters are short articles that report results whose immediate availability to the applied electronic science and engineering community is deemed important. Letters are restricted to 2500 words or the equivalent (8 double-spaced word-processed pages of text and 3-4 figures), and no more than 30 references. A brief abstract of less than 100 words should be included along with 5-8 keywords. Letters are intended to provide rapid communication of important results and should be written in a form that is engaging and easy to follow. The narrative should flow continuously, without separate subsections, through introductory material, followed by a sufficient outline of the research performed to allow the reader to follow what was done, results presented and described in a way that captures their essential details, and concluding remarks. Experimental details that are not essential to the understanding of the Letter but that would be useful for those trying to reproduce the results or in providing helpful additional information for experts should be included as supporting information. Letters often will be complete publications, but follow-up publications might occasionally be justified when the research is continued and a more complete account of the work is deemed necessary. Special efforts will be made to expedite the reviewing and publication of Letters. The time for proof reading the galley proofs is relatively short. For this reason, authors of Letters should ensure that manuscripts are in final, error-free form when submitted.
B. Articles should cover their subjects with thoroughness, clarity, and completeness, but should be as concise as possible.
The narrative should be divided into the following six subsections: (1) Abstract followed by 5-8 keywords, (2) Introduction, (3) Experimental Section, (4) Results and Discussion, (5) Conclusions, and (6) References. Abstracts to Articles are limited to 300 words and should summarize the significant results and conclusions. The total number of references for Articles is typically limited to 70.
Articles are scheduled for publication in the order of acceptance within limitations of available space. Articles describing related work divided into two or more manuscripts (e.g, part 1, part 2…) submitted concurrently are strongly discouraged.
C. Reviews are usually invited by the Editor and are limited to a maximum of 10 journal pages (approximately 50 pages of double-spaced manuscript), including tables, figures, and references. Reviews should constitute concise, yet complete, surveys of the literature written by experts for nonexperts. Their purpose is to acquaint the readers of the journal with recent progress in key materials or interfaces research areas, with a focus on application. Reviews should be written for a more general audience of “materials scientists and engineers” and provide a balanced view of the topic in question. Exclusive (or near exclusive) focus on the author’s research is discouraged in Reviews. Reviews will be peer-reviewed in the same manner as research Articles.
Authors interested in contributing a Review must submit a single document that includes the following for consideration (eic@aem.acs.org):
Proposed title
Corresponding author names, affiliations, and websites
A short (~400-word) description of the focused topic
A list of 5–10 lead references that might form the foundation of the final manuscript
A list of recent review articles published on this topic written by the submitting authors or others, and how the proposed review will differ in focus and advance the literature on the subject.
Reviews will be considered only if they are approved and invited for submission by the Editor. A review invitation does not guarantee that a review will be peer-reviewed or published. It is incumbent on authors to submit copyright permissions for material that is being reproduced from other sources.
D. Spotlights on Applications are usually invited by the Editor and will be so designated. By focusing on active research areas, these articles are not intended to be standard reviews of the literature. The author will be asked to provide a clear, concise, and critical status report of the field as an introduction, and the author’s own contribution to the field should constitute the main body of the article. An emphasis should be placed on drawing a clear relationship between electronic materials synthesis, structure, and/or properties and the application that is the focus of the Spotlight. Authors in important active research fields in the area of applied electronic materials are encouraged to propose Spotlights. One-page proposals should be sent to the Deputy Editor’s office (eic@aem.acs.org) for consideration.
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