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Powering Up Electrochemistry

2013; Wiley; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/celc.201300001

2196-0216

Greta Heydenrych, Kira Welter,

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The last two decades have seen an explosion in the development of electrochemistry, transforming it from a sub-discipline of physical chemistry to a truly multidisciplinary endeavour that has applications in fields ranging from biology to materials science. The primary driver in this growth has been the need to uncover clean, renewable and reliable sources of energy. Thus photovoltaics, fuel cells and the search for high-performance electrode materials all have contributed to raise the profile of electrochemistry. However, this phenomenal growth has not only been fuelled by energy demands. The development of new techniques, such as scanning electrochemical microscopy, has enabled researchers to observe electrochemical reactions as they take place. Bioelectrochemists have also gained much new insight in cell and tissue metabolism, most of which is electrochemically driven, by means of micro- and nanoelectrodes. Thus, we can expect that, alongside the rapidly expanding applications of electrochemisty, many discoveries of fundamental importance will be made in the near future. At ChemPhysChem, we have followed these developments with a keen eye, so when Peter Gölitz, Editor-in-Chief of Angewandte Chemie, came up with the suggestion of starting an electrochemistry journal as a sister journal to ChemPhysChem, we were immediately enthusiastic. Because ChemElectroChem would be co-published by Wiley-VCH and the owner societies who make up ChemPubSoc Europe (Table 1), it was important to know whether there is also a need among the members of our owner societies for a society-owned electrochemistry journal. So, after probing several society members at meetings and in telephone conversations, as well as discussing this with the main representatives of ChemPubSoc Europe, namely Christian Amatore, Franco de Angelis, Wolfram Koch and Luis Oro, and receiving an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response in favour of this proposal, we decided to launch ChemElectroChem. 1 ChemElectroChem is therefore the latest addition to the successful ChemXChem series of society journals, 1 all co-owned by ChemPubSoc Europe. Although ChemElectroChem is a journal of European chemical societies, it is intended to serve the international community of electrochemists, and this is reflected in the composition of the Editorial Advisory Board, as shown in Table 2. The Editorial Advisory Board is chaired by Bing-Wei Mao (China), Wolfgang Schuhmann (Germany) and Jean-Marie Tarascon (France)—please see the orange box for their statements. Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker (GÖCH) Austria Société Royale de Chimie (SRC) Belgium Koninklijke Vlaamse Chemische Vereniging (KVCV) Belgium Česká Společnost Chemická (ČSCH) Czech Republic Société Chimique de France (SCF) France Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) Germany Association of Greek Chemists (EEX) Greece Magyar Kémikusok Egyesülete (MKE) Hungary Società Chimica Italiana (SCI) Italy Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV) The Netherlands Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne (PTChem) Poland Sociedade Portugesa de Química (SPQ) Portugal Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) Spain Svenska Kemistsamfundet (SK) Sweden Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft* (SCG) Switzerland Slovenská Chemická Spoloćnosť* (SCS) Slovakia Co-Chairs Timo Jacob Germany Universität Ulm Bing-Wei Mao China Xiamen University Jürgen Janek Germany Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Wolfgang Schuhmann Germany Ruhr-Universität Bochum Kisuk Kang Korea Seoul National University Jean-Marie Tarascon France Université de Picardie Marc Koper Netherlands Leiden University Members Alexei Kornyshev UK Imperial College London Hector Abruña USA Cornell University Katharina Krischer Germany Technische Universität München Christian Amatore France Ecole Normale Supérieure Lauro Kubota Brazil Campinas University Fraser Armstrong, FRS UK Oxford University Jacek Lipkowski Canada University of Guelph Plamen Atanassov USA The University of New Mexico Nenad Markovic USA Argonne National Laboratory Philip Bartlett UK University of Southampton Tetsuya Osaka Japan Waseda University Juan Bisquert Spain Universitat Jaume I José Pingarrón Spain Univ Complutense Madrid Alan Bond Australia Monash University Martin Pumera Singapore Nanyang Technological University Peter Bruce UK St. Andrews Jean-Michel Saveant France Université Paris-Diderot Claudine Buess-Herman Belgium Université Libre de Bruxelles Patrik Schmuki Germany University of Erlangen Nuremberg Ernesto Calvo Argentina Universidad de Buenos Aires Rolf Schuster Germany Karlsruher Institut Für Technologie Ib Chorkendorff Denmark Technical University of Denmark Onofrio Scialdone Italy Università degli Studi di Palermo Salvatore Daniele Italy University of Venice Bruno Scrosati Italy University of Rome “La Sapienza” Akira Fujishima Japan Tokyo University of Science Yang Shao-Horn USA MIT Hubert Girault Switzerland EPFL Irina Svir France&Ukraine ENS&CNRS/Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics Justin Gooding Australia The University of New South Wales Jens Ulstrup Denmark Technical University of Denmark Lo Gorton Sweden Lund University Constantinos Vayenas Greece University of Patras Yu-Guo Guo China Institue of Chemistry, CAS Joseph Wang USA University California San Diego Philippe Hapiot France Université de Rennes 1 Peng Wang China Changchun, CAS Achim Walter Hassel Austria Johannes Kepler University Linz Itamar Willner Israel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Adam Heller USA University of Texas at Austin ChemElectroChem is committed to publishing excellent articles that cover the entire scope of electrochemistry, ranging from fundamental discoveries to cutting-edge applications. We will publish a mix of Full Papers and Communications, as well as Reviews. Concepts and Highlights, to keep you up to date with the latest developments in the field. For the rest of 2013 and for the whole of 2014, access to ChemElectroChem will be free. If your institution has a subscription to Angewandte Chemie International Edition and/or Angewandte Chemie, you will automatically have access to ChemElectroChem. If you do not have an Angewandte subscription, but you would like to read ChemElectroChem, you can simply register for free (www.chemelectrochem.org) and enjoy complimentary access to ChemElectroChem until the end of 2014. For those authors who would like to, or have to, publish their manuscripts in an open-access format, ChemElectroChem offers the OnlineOpen service as also offered by our sister journals. More details can be found on www.chemelectrochem.org. ChemElectroChem will be fully digital, so we will offer free colour for all manuscripts and we will also feature attractive print-on-demand offers. To conclude, ChemElectroChem, new sister journal to Angewandte Chemie, ChemPhysChem and the other ChemXChem journals, is dedicated to publishing high-quality research papers and reviews on all aspects of electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications, Analysis and Catalyis, Bio and Nano, Energy and More. We welcome your next submission to ChemElectroChem! Greta Heydenrych (Editor-in-Chief) and Kira Welter (Senior Associate Editor)