About the journal

An international journal to further the chemical sciences

About RSC Advances

Scope
RSC Advances is an international, peer-reviewed, online journal covering all of the chemical sciences, including multidisciplinary and emerging areas. Main research areas include (but are not limited to):

Agricultural
Analytical
Biochemistry
Biological
Biophysics
Biotechnology
Catalysis
Chemical Biology
Chemical Engineering
Computational Chemistry
Coordination chemistry
Electrochemistry
Energy
Environmental Sciences
Food
Genetic engineering
Geochemistry
Green chemistry
Inorganic
Ionic Liquids
Kinetics
Materials

Medicinal
Microarrays
Nanomedicine
Nanoscience
Neurochemistry
Nucleic Acids
Organic
Organometallics
Pharmacology
Pharmaceutics
Photosciences
Physical
Polymers
Protein engineering
Proteomics
Rheology and colloids
Sensors and Biosensors
Supramolecular
Surfaces
Synthetic Biology
Theoretical Chemistry
Toxicology

The criteria for publication will be that the work must be high quality and well conducted. Articles submitted to the journal will be evaluated by international referees for the overall quality and accuracy of the science presented.

Why Publish with RSC Advances?
RSC journals are renowned for their high quality, rapid publication and innovative technology. All articles published in RSC Advances will benefit from wide exposure, with free access upon registration to all content published during 2011 and 2012 giving maximum visibility to your work.

RSC Advances authors will benefit from:

Rapid publication times
Open-access options via RSC Open Science
Simple and effective online submission process
Free electronic reprints (pdf) of own paper
Free use of colour
No page charges
No page limits

Article Types
RSC Advances will publish communications, papers and reviews.

Readership
Academic, government and industrial scientists from all disciplines- specialised or interdisciplinary including: organic, medicinal, inorganic, organometallic, physical and biochemists, biologists, physicists, engineers, theoretical chemists; analytical, materials, polymer, surface, sustainable energy and environmental scientists.

RSC Advances readers will benefit from: