Energy Advances
Blue and Green Hydrogen Production and Storage
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
7 June 2024
Guest Editor(s):
N/A
This Energy Advances themed collection will showcase the role both blue and green hydrogen will play in reaching net-zero carbon emissions targets. Papers published in this collection will cover the chemistry, physics, applied and fundamental materials science and engineering behind new developments in photoelectrochemical water splitting, steam methane reforming, hydrogen storage and the hydrogen economy.
Flowable Energy Storage
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
7 June 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Deepak Dubal (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Yun Suk Huh (Inha University, South Korea), Yongdan Li (Aalto University, Finland) and Peng Tan (University of Science and Technology of China)
This Energy Advances themed collection will report research across a broad scope of topics related to flowable energy storage, including redox flow batteries (including lithium-sulfur, vanadium and aqueous organic systems), electrochemical flow capacitors, and component design for these systems. Studies reporting solutions to cost and safety barriers to grid-scale and commercial use of flowable energy storage technologies are welcomed.
Industrial Chemistry & Materials
Liquid-based Materials: Novel Concepts from Fundamentals to Applications
Submissions open:
1 November 2023
Deadline:
14 February 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Prof. Xu Hou (Xiamen University, China),
Prof. Jungmok Seo (Yonsei University, South Korea)
Industrial Chemistry & Materials is pleased to announce a call for papers for Liquid-based Materials, which are structures or functions based on liquid or soft substances.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Sustainable Composites
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
29 September 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Professor Ian Hamerton (University of Bristol), Dr Lois Hobson (Centre for Process Innovation), Dr Jonathan Wagner (Loughborough University)
This cross-journal themed collection contributes to the action plan from the Sustainable Composite Materials report by the RSC. It aims to create opportunities for researchers to publish peer-reviewed studies on sustainable composites.
Functional Frameworks Materials
Submissions open:
Now open for submissions
Deadline:
13 November 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Paolo Falcaro (TU Graz, Austria);
Patricia Horcajada (IMDEA Energy, Spain);
Dan Li (Jinan University, China)
Porous materials, particularly those with ordered structures, present interesting physicochemical properties that make them ideal platforms to be explored in the field of fluid storage/separation, catalysis, energy storage, and chemical sensing. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent–organic frameworks (COFs) are among the most promising nano-scaled porous crystalline materials presenting continuous breakthroughs in various relevant applications in recent years. Their exceptional features attracted the great interest of scientists (e.g. chemists, physicists, engineers) who have taken advantage of their unique structures and properties to solve complex problems. This collection focuses on the synthesis, and understanding, of MOFs and COFs as well as their composite materials and provides an overview of their recent development toward practical applications. The selected articles will identify the challenges and address key issues in MOFs/COFs science and engineering. We would like to receive original manuscripts in, but not limited to, the following areas: Design and synthesis of MOFs/COFs, smart materials and advanced characterization, adsorption and separation, catalysis and sensing, device fabrication and application, theoretical calculation and machine learning, energy conversion and storage, environment and green-sustainable materials, biotechnology, as well as scaled-up and industrialization. Papers on MOFs for energy-related applications are most welcome.
Advancing energy-materials through high-throughput experiments and computation
Submissions open:
26 May 2023
Deadline:
13 October 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Dr. Moran Balaish (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Prof. Helge Sören Stein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Prof. Arghya Bhowmik (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Prof. John Gregoire (Caltech, USA)
The unprecedented need for new and improved energy conversion and storage materials creates a historic imperative to accelerate the research process and proliferate new and improved materials (and interfaces) from guided and serendipitous discovery to commercial application by 5x - 20x. Integrating high-throughput automated ceramic synthesis, data management, data mining, autonomous materials characterization, and robust data analysis with guidance and uncertainty quantification from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can revolutionize how research is conducted. This accelerated way of orchestrating chemistry sparks new avenues in interdisciplinary research across chemistry, physics, material science, computer science, engineering and stimulates breakthroughs in energy materials.
Guest Edited by Dr. Moran Balaish (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Prof. Helge Sören Stein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Prof. Arghya Bhowmik, and Prof. John Gregoire, this themed collection of Journal of Materials Chemistry A aims to provide a platform for recent developments in the emerging research area of material science and technology accelerated by artificial intelligence, autonomous, and automated methods for discovering, characterizing, understanding and upscaling energy materials and related applications. This themed collection will focus on the 4 major phases of inorganic material’s development cycle for energy materials relating broadly to the field of energy conversion and storage. We welcome contributions relating to orchestrating experiments, integrating simulations and experiment, uncertainty quantification in theory and experiment, going beyond facile property prediction, transfer learning, explainable machine learning models in chemistry, technical papers on new innovative methods for coating and synthesis, advanced automatic data analysis, and data management.
MSDE
MSDE Emerging Investigators Series
Submissions open:
1 January 2022
Deadline:
Ongoing
Guest Editor(s):
N/A
MSDE is proud to present its Emerging Investigators Series. This collection gathers the very best work from scientists in the early stages of their independent careers. It highlights up-and-coming scientists in the early stages of their independent careers in recognition of their potential to influence future directions in the field of molecular engineering.
Molecular Bioengineering
Submissions open:
15 August 2023
Deadline:
31 January 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Patrick Stayton & José Rafael Bordin
In the last few decades, there has been major growth within the field of molecular bioengineering, utilising innovative molecular-level design approaches and novel technological systems to drive forward the field at the intersection of chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, biology, and medicine. The application of molecular bioengineering approaches is wide-ranging, including imaging & diagnostics, tissue engineering & regeneration, therapeutics design & delivery and immune engineering to name a small section.
RSC Sustainability
Sustainable Laboratories
Submissions open:
20 October 2022
Deadline:
Ongoing
Guest Editor(s):
N/A
Our new Sustainable Laboratories report shines a spotlight on some of the complexities associated with the need to make research more environmentally sustainable, and to coincide with the launch of this report RSC Sustainability is welcoming papers, reviews, and perspectives, which address various approaches to reduce the environmental impact of research and make laboratories more sustainable.
Sustainable Composites
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
29 September 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Professor Ian Hamerton (University of Bristol, UK), Dr Lois Hobson (Centre for Process Innovation, UK), Dr Jonathan Wagner (Loughborough University, UK)
This cross-journal themed collection contributes to the action plan from the Sustainable Composite Materials report by the RSC. It aims to create opportunities for researchers to publish peer-reviewed studies on sustainable composites.
Conference special issue: 6th EuChemS Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
1 April 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Luigi Vaccaro (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italia), Arjan W. Kleij (ICIQ, Spain), Ana Aguiar-Ricardo (FCT NOVA, Portugal) and Paolo Melchiorre (ICIQ, Spain & University of Bologna, Italy)
In celebration of the 6th EuChemS Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, a series of journals across the Royal Society of Chemistry are hosting a themed collection to celebrate research in this area. As a global society publisher, the RSC positions itself as a leading voice for the chemical sciences, which puts sustainability in the spotlight. We recognise the potential of the chemical sciences to provide innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges – and the importance of giving a platform to scientists whose discoveries catalyse global change.
This collection will celebrate both the vibrant and collaborative spirit of the conference, and the contribution green & sustainable chemistry makes to solving global challenges.
The journals that are available to receive submissions in response to this open call include Catalysis Science & Technology, Green Chemistry, RSC Advances, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering and RSC Sustainability.
Energy Materials Redesign, Reuse and Repurpose
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
30 April 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo Instituto de Carboquimica-CSIC), Bethan Charles (University of Bristol, UK), Xiaolei Wang (University of Alberta, Canada), Erlantz Lizundia (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)
A huge amount of research funding and effort is devoted to producing new materials for energy applications that are cheaper, more efficient or have higher capacity than the materials already available on the market. But how sustainable are these materials? RSC Sustainability is accepting papers for a new themed collection centred on how energy materials can be recycled. If you have work that may be suitable, enquire now.
CO2 Conversion
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
14 May 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Haichao Liu (Peking University, China), Carlos Alemán (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), John Mondal (CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India), and Xiao Jiang (Aramco Research Center, USA)
As the world moves away from fossil fuels, it will be imperative that there are alternative sources of carbon to allow for continued manufacturing of the products that society has come to rely on. Utilising CO2 has the added benefit of reducing the impact of its effects as a greenhouse gas. RSC Sustainability is seeking submissions describing work on converting carbon dioxide to more useful compounds for a new themed collection on CO2 conversion. Enquire now for more information.
Circular Economy
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
28 May 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Vincent Nyamori (Univerist of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), Alice Fan (university of York, UK), Matthew Davies (Swansea University, UK), and Manie Vosloo (North-West University, South Africa)
The principle of the Circular Economy will be pivotal to achieving a sustainable future, and chemistry will be integral in making it a reality. RSC Sustainability is proud to announce a new themed collection devoted to efforts to minimising waste, ensuring materials are recycled and that any waste that is generated is converted into a more valuable resource. If you have work that fits with this, enquire now about the RSC Sustainability Circular Economy themed collection.
Sustainable Energy & Fuels
Solar Fuels and Chemicals: Photocatalytic Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction
Submissions open:
26 July 2023
Deadline:
30 November 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Ryu Abe (Kyoto University), Kazunari Domen (The University of Tokyo), Osamu Ishitani (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Yun Hau Ng (City University of Hong Kong)
This collection, guest edited by Profs. Ryu Abe, Domen Kazunari, Osamu Ishitai and Yun Hau Ng, aims to showcase the recent advances in the field of photocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction, with a focus on solar-driven production of clean fuels and chemicals. The wide range of topics covered include semiconductor materials chemistry, photoelectrochemistry, nanotechnology, co-catalysts with high selectivity, molecular catalyst chemistry, spectroscopy, theoretical study and system design for practical applications. All manuscripts must also fall within the scope of the journal, and meet the journal’s usual quality criteria as outlined on our webpage.
Sustainable Energy & Fuels Emerging Investigators Series
Submissions open:
1 July 2022
Deadline:
Ongoing
Guest Editor(s):
N/A (these ongoing series do not have Guest Editors)
Sustainable Energy & Fuels is delighted to announce our Emerging Investigators Series, highlighting the very best work from researchers in the early stages of their independent careers. The collection showcases research from early career energy scientists who are working towards making future energy technologies more sustainable, in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 and the scope of Sustainable Energy & Fuels.
Sustainable Food Technology
Advances in sustainable technologies applied to food ingredients, processes, and packaging
Submissions open:
5 July 2023
Deadline:
1 December 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Benu Adhikari (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia)
Jie Chen (Jiangnan University, China)
This special issue aims to provide a comprehensive collection of review papers that systematically assess recent advances in sustainable technologies applied to food ingredients, processes, and packaging. The issue will cover fundamental research, innovative applications, and industry practices, serving as an important resource for researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers in promoting sustainable practices across the food industry.
Preservation of fresh produce by biopolymer edible coatings
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
29 February 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Nishant Kumar (National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, India), Elena Poverenov (Volcani Institute, Israel), Victor Rodov (Volcani Institute, Israel)
The aim of this themed collection is to present the state of the art in developing biopolymer-based edible coatings as a tool for fruit and vegetable preservation and reducing food losses and wastage. Its scope includes but is not limited to the following topics:
- Recent achievements in preservation of fresh and fresh-cut produce by biopolymer-based coatings
- The efficacy of biopolymer edible coatings as plastic substitutes
- Bioactive additives to edible coatings improving their functionality
- Optimizing coating formulations, in particular using modelling
- Sustainability of edible coatings including Life Cycle Analysis.
*2022 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2023)
**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts from the previous calendar year
****CiteScore™ 2022 available at www.scopus.com/sources
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