Inorganic journals: open calls for papers

The concept of molecular electronics was inspired by the desire to harness the electrical properties of one or more molecules trapped between macroscopic electrodes under bias to perform functions analogous to those solid-state electronic components at an ultra-miniaturized scale. Progress in the field ebbed and flowed from the 1950s to 2000s as concepts, theories and experiments met with frustrations arising from the technical challenges of achieving these goals. With the advent of laboratory methods for the construction of electrode-molecule-electrode junctions, molecular electronics has emerged as a genuine field of endeavour, with ambitions and applications that far exceed the initial premise.

This Spotlight Collection on Inorganic Molecular Electronics aims to highlight recent developments in the application of the structural, optical, electronic and magnetic properties of inorganic complexes and organometallic complexes in molecular electronics, and the theories, synthetic, analytical, and physical approaches that deliver unique molecular systems with customized and controlled properties.

Current research with metal complexes in junctions emphasizes new concepts and strategies for electron transport in junctions, the design of logic devices, and the development of molecular components such as wires, memory elements, transistors, memristors, rectifiers, or on/off switches. Beyond electronics, molecular junctions attract interest as tools for the development of spintronics, single-molecule sensing systems, thermoelectrics, and an increasingly wide array of materials science applications.

All types of manuscript – communications, full papers, perspective, frontiers and comments – will be considered for publication. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the Collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to this Collection and inform the Editorial Office by email.

Following our peer-review process, we will publish accepted articles online in a citeable form as soon as they are ready, with compilation of the complete collection in autumn 2023.

Dalton Transactions is a Transformative Journal, and Plan S compliant

Artificial nitrogen cycle electrocatalysis with high flexibility, sustainability, and compatibility can convert intermittent renewable energy to harmless (nitrogen) or value-added chemicals (ammonia, nitrate, hydrazine, hydroxylamine, etc.). This themed collection will highlight new advances in the growing field of N-cycle electrocatalysis.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Artificial nitrogen fixation
• Nitrate/nitrite reduction reaction
• Nitric oxide oxidation reaction
• Nitric oxide oxidation reaction
• Nitric oxide reduction reaction
• Ammonia oxidation reaction
• Hydrazine oxidation reaction
• Nitrogen oxidation reaction

How to submit:

Both Research and Review articles will be considered for this collection. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes, and inclusion in the themed collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. If you are willing to contribute, please mention that this manuscript is a contribution to the nitrogen cycle electrocatalysis collection in the “Comments to the Editor” section during submission.

The Emerging Investigator Series has an overall objective to showcase significant research by newer voices from across the worldwide inorganic chemistry research community. We will consider additional applications and nominations on their own merit. Self-nominations are also strongly encouraged.

Both research articles and review articles are welcome to the series. Papers accepted for publication in the Emerging Investigator Series will be published in the earliest available issue and collated together in a dedicated Emerging Investigator Series page that will appear across Frontiers journals’ websites. All submissions to the Emerging Investigator Series will be subject to the journal’s high standards in peer review.

In order to be featured in the Emerging Investigator Series, contributors must:

• currently, be an independent research leader
• be the lead author (first author and/or corresponding author) of their article at the journal
• have either a) hold a PhD degree and be at the age of 40 or less in the year of submission, or b) received their PhD no earlier than 01 January of the year 12 years prior to the year of submission, or c) have no more than 12 years of post-PhD research experience on 01 January in the year of submission when taking into account any career breaks.

If you are interested to contribute to this series, please provide an up-to-date CV to the Editorial Office before submission, or simply opt-in for this series during submitting your manuscript and attach the CV as a supporting document.