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EFRC Feature Articles n the current issue of J. Phys. Chem. C is a Feature Article that we have designated an “EFRC Feature Article” as it describes research that was the result of an Energy Frontier Research Center, which is a center funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the US Department of Energy. 46 of these centers were established in 2009, so we are approaching the fifth anniversary of each center, and there has been a lot of scientific progress that we hope to describe through these Feature Articles. The EFRCs are large multi-investigator centers which conduct fundamental research related to energy needs and opportunities in the United States. While not all EFRCs are involved in research that is appropriate for JPC, the goal of the EFRC Feature Articles is to describe important scientific advances which do connect with physical chemistry, thereby serving as an archive of what resulted from this very large program that is relevant to our readers. The Feature Article in the current issue of JPC C is entitled “Energy Frontier Research Center for Solid-State Lighting Science: Exploring New Materials Architectures and Light Emission Phenomena” by M. Coltrin, A. Armstrong, I. Brener, W. Chow, M. Crawford, A. Fischer, D. Kelley, D. Koleske, L. Lauhon, J. Martin, M. Nyman, E. F. Schubert, L. Rohwer, G. Subramania, J. Tsao, G. Wang, J. Wierer, and J. Wright at the Solid-State Lighting Science (SSLS) EFRC that is headquartered at Sandia National Laboratories. The EFRC Feature Article in this issue is the second of a series that will appear in different sections of the Journal over the next couple of years. The first was an article entitled “Photophysical Properties of the Excited States of Bacteriochlorophyll f in Solvents and in Chlorosomes” by D. Niedzwiedzki, G. Orf, M. Tank, K. Vogl, D. Bryant, and R. Blankenship (J. Phys. Chem. B 2014, 118, 2295−2305). This is a contribution from the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), which is headquartered at Washington University in St. Louis. Another EFRC Feature Article that will appear shortly is “Panoramic View of Electrochemical Pseudocapacitor and Organic Solar Cell Research in Molecularly Engineered Energy Materials (MEEM)” by J. Aquirre, A. Ferreira, H. Ding, S. Jenekhe, N. Kopidakis, M. Asta, L. Pilon, Y. Rubin, S. Tolbert, B. Schwartz, B. Dunn, and V. Ozolins, of the Molecularly Engineered Energy Materials (MEEM) EFRC headquartered at the University of California at Los Angeles. We look forward to additional EFRC Feature Articles in future issues.
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Anne B. McCoy Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Catherine J. Murphy George C. Schatz
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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS. Published: June 26, 2014 © 2014 American Chemical Society
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