Editor’s Note:

How we produce and store energy has a major impact on how we live. Solving energy issues, along with its concurrent water use, could help mitigate food scarcity, access to education, and poverty. Researchers in the nation’s Energy Frontier Research Centers, funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science’s Basic Energy Sciences, are answering fundamental questions that will affect how we heat our homes and power our industry. In this issue, you’ll read about research aimed at finding better ways to store energy in a new generation of batteries. You’ll see how researchers are answering scientific questions about harnessing carbon dioxide and turning it into fuels, using it for fracking, or storing it underground. You’ll also learn how researchers are using supercomputers to find the answers to these questions and the hunt for superconducting materials that can transmit energy without loss. In each article, you’ll also catch a glimpse of the seven members of our editorial board, who put their creativity, consideration, and precious spare time into crafting this issue. Thank you for being a part of it.

Kristin Manke, Editor-in-Chief

Editorial Board

• James Furness, Center for Complex Materials from First Principles (CCM)
• Ryan Greer, Center for Actinide Science and Technology (CAST)
• Evan Lafalce, Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE)
• Rubul Mout, Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales (CSSAS)
• Hannah Sayre, Bioinspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC)
• David Stewart, Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES)
• Rahul Sujanani, Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems (M-WET)