Fuel Cells – From Fundamentals to Systems – Ready for the Future

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Dear friends and colleagues of Fuel Cells – From Fundamentals to Systems, First of all, the Editorial Office would like to wish all our contributors and readers a Happy New Year! We hope that it will bring you success in your work with excellent articles to be published in Fuel Cells. At the same time all the best wishes to your personal life, may it be filled with happiness. In the following we want to inform you about some developments with the journal and plans for the next time. Due to some organizatorial changes in the manuscript handling, the Editorial Office would like to point out to adhere to the Journals’ Guidelines for Authors while preparing the manuscript (see our website http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291615-6854/homepage/2293_guide.html for a detailed information), in order to avoid any delay in the manuscript workflow. What is in the making for 2015? We have planned one special issue which is built on results of the 11th European SOFC & SOE Forum, held July 1–4, 2014 in Lucerne, Switzerland related to the topic “Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers: Key enabling technologies for sustainable energy technologies” (EFCF2014) and in late 2015 we are planning to have a topical issue on “Fuel Cell Materials” by researchers at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, covering different fuel cell technologies, including PEMFCs and SOFCs, and different fuel cell components such as electrolytic membranes, electrodes, interconnect/bipolar plates, catalysts, etc. We believe that fuel cells are an important element in electrochemical energy technology, but also that the research in this field should not only be focussed on fuel cells alone. We would encourage you to submit review articles but also original research papers on electrochemical energy technology. If you have a suggestion for a review article, please send it to the Editorial Office with a 1–3 page outline for a first evaluation. Effective from January 1, 2015, there will be 2 additions to the Editorial Board, Alonso-Vante of the University of Poitiers, France, and Florence Lefebvre-Joud, CEA Grenoble, France. We cordially welcome these two new members of the Editorial Board. At the same time we thank Deborah Jones who has served on the Board for many years, in the end as Senior Editor in the Editorial Office, for her work and the valuable contributions she made for the Journal. We wish her all the best for the future. In addition, we are grateful for the contributions of Nigel Brandon as member of the Editorial Board. Both decided to retire from their functions with the journal.