Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy is a peer-reviewed, fully open access journal published by Springer under the SpringerOpen brand since 2012, devoted to the materials science behind renewable energy storage and conversion, sustainable fuel production, and energy saving, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.6.《可再生与可持续能源材料》（Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy）是由施普林格（Springer）自 2012 年起以（SpringerOpen）品牌出版的同行评审全开放获取期刊，致力于可再生能源存储与转换、可持续燃料生产与节能技术背后的材料科学研究，2025 年影响因子为 6.6。

Scope

• Covers materials for renewable energy storage and conversion, including batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, hydrogen storage, and photovoltaics and solar cells.涵盖可再生能源存储与转换材料，包括电池、超级电容器、燃料电池、储氢以及光伏与太阳能电池。
• Addresses materials for renewable and sustainable fuel production, spanning catalytic hydrogen and fuel generation from renewables, solar-driven photocatalytic routes to hydrogen and fuels, biofuels, and carbon dioxide sequestration and conversion.关注可再生与可持续燃料生产材料，涵盖催化制氢与可再生燃料、太阳能驱动光催化制氢与燃料、生物燃料以及二氧化碳封存与转化。
• Includes materials for energy saving, such as thermoelectrics, novel illumination sources for efficient lighting, and energy saving in buildings.收录节能材料，如热电材料、高效照明新型光源以及建筑节能技术。
• Welcomes materials modeling and theoretical studies as well as advanced characterization techniques for materials.欢迎材料建模与理论研究以及先进材料表征技术方面的成果。
• Publishes reviews, original research articles, rapid communications, and perspectives, all peer-reviewed for scientific quality.发表综述、原创研究论文、快讯与观点文章，全部经同行评审以保证科学质量。
• Positions itself as an interdisciplinary forum linking materials, energy, and sustainability, with close attention to in situ and in operando characterization and to computation-guided materials design.定位为连接材料、能源与可持续性的跨学科论坛，并密切关注原位与工况表征以及计算辅助材料设计。
• More than half of the articles published in 2024 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.2024 年发表的文章中超过半数与 17 项可持续发展目标中的至少一项相关。

History

• The journal was launched in 2012 under the SpringerOpen brand as a partnership between Springer and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), and the inaugural editorial was written by the founding editors Enrico Traversa and Hicham Idriss.本刊于 2012 年创刊，由施普林格与沙特阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王科技城（KACST）合作、以（SpringerOpen）品牌推出，创刊社论由创刊编辑 Enrico Traversa 与 Hicham Idriss 撰写。^[1]
• Husam Alshareef of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Enrico Traversa served as the founding editors-in-chief, and the journal set up a Best Paper Prize that was sponsored by KACST in its early years.创刊主编为阿卜杜拉国王科技大学（KAUST）的 Husam Alshareef 与 Enrico Traversa，期刊早期并设有由 KACST 赞助的最佳论文奖。^[2]
• KACST supported the journal from 2012 to 2021, and since 2022 it has been partially sponsored by the International Experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange (IEREK), which covers article processing charges for selected papers.KACST 在 2012 至 2021 年间支持本刊，2022 年起改由国际研究与知识交流专家组织（IEREK）提供部分赞助，为入选论文支付文章处理费。
• The journal charged no publication fee at launch but now applies an article processing charge of GBP 1,590, USD 2,290 or EUR 1,890, with all articles published under a CC BY licence.本刊创刊时不收取出版费，现按文章收取处理费（1590 英镑、2290 美元或 1890 欧元），所有文章均以 CC BY 许可发表。
• Indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, the journal received its first Journal Impact Factor of 5.5 in 2024, rising to 6.6 in 2025 with a matching five-year impact factor of 6.6.本刊被 ESCI 收录后于 2024 年获得首个影响因子 5.5，2025 年升至 6.6，五年影响因子同为 6.6。
• The journal publishes on a continuous basis, recorded 387.1k downloads in 2025, and reports a median time of about ten days from submission to first decision.本刊实行连续出版，2025 年下载量达 38.71 万次，从投稿到首次决定的平均耗时约 10 天。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Vincenzo Baglio, research director at the Institute for Advanced Energy Technologies Nicola Giordano (CNR-ITAE) in Messina, Italy, whose work covers fuel cells, electrolysers, batteries, and third-generation photovoltaics.主编为 Vincenzo Baglio，任意大利墨西拿 CNR 先进能源技术研究所（CNR-ITAE）研究主任，研究方向涵盖燃料电池、电解槽、电池与第三代光伏。
• Enrico Traversa, now at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and the University of Rome Tor Vergata, continues to serve as founding editor.Enrico Traversa 现任职于中国电子科技大学与罗马第二大学（University of Rome Tor Vergata），继续担任创刊编辑。
• An advisory editorial board of about 26 members is drawn from Italy, China, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Greece, Chile, and Hong Kong.顾问编委会由约 26 位成员组成，来自意大利、中国、美国、德国、英国、墨西哥、巴西、日本、韩国、南非、西班牙、瑞典、波兰、希腊、智利与中国香港等地。
• Ten topical associate editors cover batteries and supercapacitors, building efficiency, electrocatalysis, electrolysers and PEM fuel cells, fuel cells, fuels and hydrogen generation, materials modeling and theory, and solar cells.设有 10 位领域副编辑，分别负责电池与超级电容器、建筑节能、电催化、电解槽与质子交换膜燃料电池、燃料电池、燃料与制氢、材料建模与理论以及太阳能电池等方向。
• Manuscripts undergo single-anonymous peer review, and the journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).稿件经单盲（审稿人匿名）同行评审，本刊为国际出版伦理委员会（COPE）成员。
• The editorial programme includes thematic collections, with recent calls for papers on next-generation battery materials, materials for renewable fuel generation, and green energy and sustainable raw material use.编辑计划包括主题专辑，近期征稿方向涵盖下一代电池材料、可再生燃料生产材料以及绿色能源与可持续原材料利用。