《科学通报》英文版2014年第18期出版了由王连洲副主编组织的Advanced Materials for Clean Energy专辑。该专辑由6篇综述，8篇研究论文组成，敬请关注。

   Chinese Science Bulletin 2014, Volume 59, Issue 18 SPECIAL ISSUE: Advanced Materials for Clean Energy http://csb.scichina.com:8080/kxtbe/EN/volumn/volumn_6466.shtml?  

   国际著名材料化学专家，澳大利亚工程院院士逯高清教授为该专辑撰写了序言，全文如下:

The ever increasing concerns over energy security due to the depletion of fossil fuel give rise to heightened interest in and greater effort towards more sustainable energy supply and utilisation. In the meantime, the climate change as a result of CO2 emission from fossil fuel use is undoubtedly another key driver for renewable energy development. Unfortunately, renewable energy such as solar, hydroelectric, wind and geothermal only constitutes a very small proportion of the total energy supply of the world (<5 %) to date. In addressing the challenging issues such as scale, efficiency and cost of renewable energy production, storage and utilization technologies, new functional materials play a central role. Thanks to the recent advances in nanotechnology, many nanomaterials offer tremendous potential because of their remarkably improved properties and sometimes disruptive performances, in new generation of renewable energy technologies.

The genesis of this special issue arose in April 2013 when Professor Dongyuan Zhao (Fudan University) and I organized the 3rd International Colloids and Conference-Colloids & Energy in Xiamen, China. Professor Lianzhou Wang as a newly appointed associate editor-in-chief of Chinese Science Bulletindiscussed with us about a possible special issue on Energy related materials. We strongly endorsed such a special issue and suggested that he invited early-to midcareer researchers active in the frontier of relevant research fields to contribute to this special issue. As can be seen from the list of contributions to this special thematic issue, there is a range of outstanding papers co-authored by some excellent researchers from leading institutions in China and Australia. These papers cover the topics on functional nanomaterial development for renewable energy conversion and storage applications. Among the authors, I am very delighted to notice those have worked with me at ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials (now the Nanomaterials Centre) at the University of Queensland as my former PhD students or Postdoctoral Fellows. I congratulate Lianzhou Wang for his great effort in editing this important topical issue for Chinese Science Bulletin, and hope that it will be of interest and useful to a broad spectrumof readers in the fields of new materials and clean energy.

G.Q. Max Lu

Provost and Senior Vice President, The University of Queensland