Why Publish with Us
Solar Fuels provides a dedicated interdisciplinary platform for research advancing the conversion, storage, and utilization of solar energy in the form of sustainable fuels and chemicals.
Publish with us to:
Reach an interdisciplinary community. Connect your work with researchers across photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, electrocatalysis, materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering, energy systems, and artificial photosynthesis.
Showcase advances across the full solar-fuels pathway. We welcome research spanning fundamental light–matter interactions and catalyst design to integrated devices, reactors, systems engineering, scale-up, and practical deployment.
Highlight mechanistic and materials insight. The journal values studies that reveal how composition, structure, interfaces, charge and mass transport, reaction pathways, and operating conditions govern solar-to-fuel performance.
Advance emerging fuel and chemical pathways. Publish research on solar hydrogen, CO₂ conversion, nitrogen fixation, solar-driven synthesis, biomass upgrading, and other routes toward renewable fuels and value-added chemicals.
Bridge fundamental discovery and real-world impact. We encourage work that connects scientific innovation with durability, efficiency, manufacturability, techno-economic viability, life-cycle performance, and sustainability.
Share data-driven and computational innovation. The journal welcomes theory, multiscale modeling, high-throughput experimentation, machine learning, autonomous discovery, and data-centric approaches that accelerate solar-fuels research.
Contribute authoritative perspectives to a rapidly evolving field. In addition to original research, Solar Fuels welcomes reviews and perspectives that synthesize emerging directions, identify critical challenges, and define opportunities for future breakthroughs.
By publishing in Solar Fuels, authors contribute to a focused forum for discoveries that move solar-fuel technologies from fundamental understanding toward scalable, sustainable energy solutions.