Editor's Note

The Summer Stretch

For some, summer offers an opportunity to laze about a swimming pool and contemplate the clouds high overhead, but for many others, summer is a time to stretch and try new things. This issue of the newsletter highlights work being done in the Energy Frontier Research Centers that stretch beyond the usual, the ordinary. They are reaching out to teachers, students, and collaborators in other countries. They are designing new materials and protective layers for solar cells. They are taking on challenges as diverse as creating plastic from plants, one-atom-thick membranes that could offer a host of advantages, and resistance-free wires for transmitting energy. Take a moment or two to learn about how researchers are doing what it takes to push back the frontiers of energy research.
 

Editorial Board and Writers

Editorial Board

• Hayden Black, Center for Solar Fuels
• Jennifer Esbenshade, Center for Electrochemical Energy Science
• Laura E. Fernandez, Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center
• Kathryn Fixen, Center for Biological Electron Transfer and Catalysis
• Anastasia Ilgen, Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security
• Ryan Patet, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation
• Sameer Patwardhan, Argonne-Northwestern University Solar Energy Research Center
• Nicholas Quackenbush, Northeast Center for Chemical Energy Storage
• Jonathon Rameau, Center for Emergent Superconductivity
• Robert L. Sacci, Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport Center
• Kristin Manke, Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, Editor-in-Chief

Guest Writers

• Michelle Harris, Argonne-Northwestern University Solar Energy Research Center
• Ashley Marshall, Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics
• Garrett Williams, Center for Biological Electron Transfer and Catalysis