Energy Materials Announces 2024 Annual Awards
We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2024 Energy Materials Annual Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions from both individuals and articles published in the journal over the past year. This year's awards highlight the exceptional efforts of our editorial team, reviewers, and authors who have significantly advanced the field of energy materials. The prestigious awards include the Outstanding Contribution Award, Outstanding Editor Award, Excellent Editor Award, Outstanding Junior Editorial Board Member Award, Outstanding Reviewer Award, Most Influential Paper Award, Excellent Paper Award, and Most Popular Cover Award.
In total, 27 individuals and 21 articles have been honored with these awards, showcasing the remarkable impact of their work in the energy materials field. The list of winners for each award is as follows.
Individual Awards:
1. Outstanding Contribution Award
Yuping Wu, Southeast University
2. Outstanding Editor Award
Sining Yun, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology
Wei Tang, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Yuhui Chen, Nanjing Tech University
3. Excellent Editor Award
Hao Liu, University of Technology Sydney
Jung Ho Kim, University of Wollongong
Ho Won Jang, Seoul National University
Yizhong Huang, Nanyang Technological University
Bin Wang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Xiongwei Wu, Hunan Agricultural University
Jiaqi Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology
4. Outstanding Junior Editorial Board Member Award
Liangdong Fan, Shenzhen University
Guozhao Fang, Central South University
Wenlong Cai, Sichuan University
Zhongxin Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
5. Outstanding Reviewer Award
Xu Liu, Southeast University, China
Qiongqiong Lu, Henan Academy of Sciences, China
Masoud Nazarian-Samani, Yonsei University, South Korea
Peixun Xiong, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Chanhoon Kim, Hanyang University, South Korea
Jiwon Jung, Konkuk University, South Korea
Runtian Zheng, Namur University, Belgium
Zhenzhen Wu, Griffith University, Australia
Yijun Zhong, Curtin University, Australia
Madagonda Vadiyar, Dongguk University, South Korea
Changhong Wang, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Clifford Krowne, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, United States
Article Awards:
1. Most Influential Paper Award
| First Place | Authors |
| Insights into the design of mildly acidic aqueous electrolytes for improved stability of Zn anode performance in zinc-ion batteries Energy Mater 2023;3:300014. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.89 | Licheng Miao, Zaiping Guo, Lifang Jiao* |
| Second Place | Authors |
| Organic-inorganic hybrid quasi-2D perovskites incorporated with fluorinated additives for efficient and stable four-terminal tandem solar cells Energy Mater 2023;3:300004. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.55 | Yuren Xia#, Mengfei Zhu#, Lina Qin#, Cheng Zhao, Daocheng Hong, Yuxi Tian, Wensheng Yan*, Zhong Jin* |
2. Excellent Paper Award
| Paper | Authors |
| 1. ZnO/MgZnO heterostructure membrane with type II band alignment for ceramic fuel cells Energy Mater 2022;2:200031. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.27 | M.A.K. Yousaf Shah, Yuzheng Lu*, Naveed Mushtaq, Manish Singh, Sajid Rauf, Muhammad Yousaf, Bin Zhu* |
| 2. Design of Zn anode protection materials for mild aqueous Zn-ion batteries Energy Mater 2022;2:200012. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.08 | Yuejuan Zhang, Songshan Bi, Zhiqiang Niu*, Weiya Zhou*, Sishen Xie* |
| 3. Recent advances in earth-abundant first-row transition metal (Fe, Co and Ni)-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction Energy Mater 2022;2:200028. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.30 | Xiaodong Chen, Jianqiao Liu, Tiefeng Yuan, Zhiyuan Zhang, Chunyu Song, Shuai Yang, Xin Gao*, Nannan Wang*, Lifeng Cui* |
| 4. Recent advances and perspectives of microsized alloying-type porous anode materials in high-performance Li- and Na-ion batteries Energy Mater 2022;2:200020. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.24 | Gaojie Li#, Siguang Guo#, Ben Xiang, Shixiong Mei, Yang Zheng, Xuming Zhang, Biao Gao*, Paul K. Chu, Kaifu Huo* |
| 5. Recent advances in photocatalytic renewable energy production Energy Mater 2022;2:200001. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2021.24 | Xiaolang Chen#, Jingjing Zhao#, Guisheng Li, Dieqing Zhang*, Hexing Li* |
| 6. Evaluation of the electrochemical and expansion performances of the Sn-Si/graphite composite electrode for the industrial use Energy Mater 2022;2:200004. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2021.27 | Ying Shao*, Zhou Jin, Jin Li, Yemin Meng, Xuejie Huang* |
| 7. Accelerating perovskite materials discovery and correlated energy applications through artificial intelligence Energy Mater 2022;2:200016. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.14 | Jiechun Liang#, Tingting Wu#, Ziwei Wang, Yunduo Yu, Linfeng Hu, Huamei Li, Xiaohong Zhang, Xi Zhu*, Yu Zhao* |
| 8. A cigarette filter-derived nitrogen-doped carbon nanoparticle coating layer for stable Zn-ion battery anodes Energy Mater 2022;2:200032. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.45 | Yi Guo, Cheng Liu, Lei Xu, Kaixin Huang, Hao Wu, Wenlong Cai*, Yun Zhang |
| 9. Recent progress of sulfide electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium batteries Energy Mater 2022;2:200005. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.01 | Han Su#, Zhao Jiang#, Yu Liu, Jingru Li, Changdong Gu, Xiuli Wang, Xinhui Xia, Jiangping Tu* |
| 10. Challenges and prospects of Mg-air batteries: a review Energy Mater 2022;2:200024. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.20 | Yaru Wang, Yukun Sun, Wen Ren, Duo Zhang, Yang Yang, Jun Yang, Jiulin Wang, Xiaoqin Zeng*, Yanna NuLi* |
| 11. A bimetallic-activated MnO2 self-assembly electrode with a dual heterojunction structure for high-performance rechargeable zinc-air batteries Energy Mater 2022;2:200021. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.17 | Zhengyu Yin#, Rui He#, Huaibin Xue, Jingjian Chen, Yue Wang, Xiaoxiao Ye, Nengneng Xu*, Jinli Qiao*, Haitao Huang* |
| 12. An overview of aqueous zinc-ion batteries based on conversion-type cathodes Energy Mater 2022;2:200009. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.05 | Junming Kang#, Zedong Zhao#, Huajing Li, Yuhuan Meng, Bo Hu, Hongbin Lu* |
| 13. Perspective of polymer-based solid-state Li-S batteries Energy Mater 2022;2:200003. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2021.25 | Julen Castillo#, Lixin Qiao#, Alexander Santiago, Xabier Judez, Amaia Sáenz de Buruaga, Gonzalo Jiménez-Martín, Michel Armand, Heng Zhang*, Chunmei Li* |
| 14. C60 and ZIF-67 synergistically modified gelatin-based nanofibrous separators for Li-S batteries Energy Mater 2023;3:300006. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.63 | Xin Liang*, Dongqing Zhao, Lulu Wang, Qianqian Huang, Chonghai Deng, Lili Wang, Lei Hu, Sheng Liang, Huaxia Deng*, Hongfa Xiang* |
| 15. Two-dimensional nitrogen and phosphorus co-doped mesoporous carbon-graphene nanosheets anode for high-performance potassium-ion capacitor Energy Mater 2023;3:300018. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.93 | Tong Li#, Xinli Huang#, Shulai Lei#, Jing Zhang*, Xin Li, Chengxiang Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Shijie Wang*, Longwei Yin, Rutao Wang* |
| 16. Understanding of working mechanism of lithium difluoro(oxalato) borate in Li||NCM85 battery with enhanced cyclic stability Energy Mater 2023;3:300029. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2023.10 | Xuerui Yang#, Yaxin Huang#, Jianhui Li, Weilin Huang, Wen Yang, Changquan Wu, Shijun Tang, Fucheng Ren, Zhengliang Gong*, Naigen Zhou*, Yong Yang* |
| 17. Recent advances in lithiophilic materials: material design and prospects for lithium metal anode application Energy Mater 2023;3:300024. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2023.08 | Jiaxiang Liu, Nanbiao Pei, Xueying Yang, Ruiyang Li, Haiming Hua, Peng Zhang*, Jinbao Zhao* |
| 18. Ionic conductivity and mechanical properties of the solid electrolyte interphase in lithium metal batteries Energy Mater 2023;3:300005. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2022.65 | Seongsoo Park, Rashma Chaudhary, Sang A Han, Hamzeh Qutaish, Janghyuk Moon*, Min-Sik Park*, Jung Ho Kim* |
| 19. Fluorine chemistry in lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries Energy Mater 2023;3:300054. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2023.61 | Zibing Pan, Huaqi Chen, Yubin Zeng, Yan Ding, Xiangjun Pu*, Zhongxue Chen* |
3. Most Popular Cover Award
Title: Single-atomic-Ni electrocatalyst derived from phthalocyanine-modified MOF for convoying CO2 intelligent utilization
Authors: San-Mei Wang, Xiaoshi Yuan, Shenghua Zhou, Xiaofang Li, Shu-Guo Han, Wenlie Lin, Lirong Zheng, Dong-Dong Ma*, Qi-Long Zhu*
Energy Mater 2024;4:400032.
https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/energymater.2023.123
These awards underscore the ongoing commitment of the global research community and our journal to advancing the understanding and application of energy materials. We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all the award winners and thank them for their outstanding contributions.
Editor: Whitney Xu
Language Editor: Emma Chen
Production Editor: Ting Xu
Respectfully Submitted by the Editorial Office of Energy Materials
