Copyright Transfer Statement


Journal: Journal of Energy Chemistry

Manuscript No.:

Manuscript Title:

Author(s):

Author’s Signature:

Date:

In compliance with “Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China”, it is agreed by the author(s) of the said article as follows upon signing of this statement:

The said article shall be published in theJournal of Energy Chemistryof theScience Press (SP)and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP),CAS.The author(s) shall grant the following worldwide exclusive rights carried by the said article in different languages to SP and DICP free of charge: reproductions, distribution, electronic dissemination, translation and compilation. The author(s) authorize(s) SP and DICP to register the said article (including all the intermedia) with the proper copyright authorities.

The author(s) of the said article warrant(s) that:

1. The said article is original and contains nothing confidential.

2. The said article has never in any form and in any language been published anywhere.

3. The said article is in no way whatever a violation or an infringement of any existing copyright or license from the third party. Otherwise, the author(s) of the said article shall take the blame for the violation or infringement of the related copyright and indemnify SP and DICP for all its losses incurred.

The author(s) pledges to give the following undertakings:

  1. The said article is not going to be published in any form in any territory.
  2. The signatory to this statement has full power to make this statement on behalf of any and all co-authors of the said article and the signed statement is final binding upon all the authors.
  3. The signatory to this statement warrants that he/she is authorized by the other co-authors to sign this statement and carries out his/her promise.

An author may self-archive an author-created version of his/her article on his/her own website and his/her institution’s repository, including his/her final version; however he/she may not use the publisher’s PDF version which is posted on Furthermore, the author may only post his/her version provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Elsevier’s websites. The link must be accompanied by the following text: “The original publication is available at

After submission of this agreement signed by the corresponding author, changes of authorship or in the order of the authors listed will not be accepted by SPand DICP.