Biomaterials Science
Microneedles
Submissions open:
1 September 2022
Deadline:
1 March 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Ester Caffarel-Salvador (Scientific Consultant, USA), Ryan Donnelly (Queen’s University Belfast, UK), Harvinder Gill (Texas Tech, USA), Hyungil Jung (Yonsei University, Korea)
This Biomaterials Science and Journal of Materials Chemistry B cross-journal collection aims to bring together recent advancements in the field of microneedles. The topics could include microneedle fabrication and development approaches, applications of microneedles that add a new dimension to existing core knowledge in this field, sensing applications, and clinical studies that evaluate efficacy or other aspects of microneedle use in humans.
Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators Series
Submissions open:
1 September 2021
Deadline:
Ongoing
Guest Editor(s):
N/A (these ongoing series do not have Guest Editors)
Biomaterials Science is proud to present its Emerging Investigators Series. This collection gathers the very best work from biomaterials 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 biomaterials.
Industrial Chemistry & Materials
Frontiers of Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
14 June 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Prof. Lior Elbaz (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Prof. Minhua Shao (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China), Prof. Jianglan Shui (Beihang University,China), Prof. Carlo Santoro (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy,)
As the most promising clean energy carrier in the 21st century, hydrogen represents the centerpiece in the transformation of energy and environmental technology. Moving toward a hydrogen-based society is crucial for humanity to address global sustainability issues and meet carbon neutrality targets, of which hydrogen production and storage, and hydrogen energy conversion (through fuel cells) are key technologies.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the development of these technologies is accelerating and interdependent. At present, demands for low-cost and at-scale chemistries and materials exist in every segment linking the hydrogen energy chain. This special issue aims to collect the inputs from the leading experts on the status, directions, and recent research breakthroughs in building future hydrogen energy ecosystem.
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.
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.
Journal of Materials Chemistry B
Biomaterials for Innate Immunity
Submissions open:
23 March 2023
Deadline:
30 June 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Erika Moore (University of Florida, USA) and Shreya Raghavan (Texas A&M University, USA)
This collection will focus on biomaterials applied to the study of innate immune function or the modulation of cells involved in immunity. Submissions are welcome to both Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances.
Injectable Hydrogels
Submissions open:
17 April 2023
Deadline:
10 September 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Dr Khoon Lim (University of Sydney, Australia)
Dr Julieta Paez ((University of Twente, The Netherlands)
This themed collection on ‘Injectable Hydrogels’ to be published across Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Biomaterials Science aims to highlight recent work focusing on rapid developments in the field of injectable hydrogels. This collection will serve as a platform for showcasing impactful developments in this rapidly evolving field and we hope it will attract researchers to further explore the progress and applications of injectable hydrogels in the biological field.
Sustainable Composites
Submissions open:
Now open for submissions
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.
Materials Advances
Bioinspired Artificial Synapses and Neurons Based on Memristors
Submissions open:
15 October 2022
Deadline:
30 June 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Niloufar Raeis-Hosseini (Cranfield University, UK), Ruomeng Huang (University of Southampton, UK) Sujaya Kumar Vishwanath (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
We welcome contributions on memristors and artificial synapses in the form of research articles, communications, or reviews in the following categories:
- Novel nanomanufacturing and processing methods of memristors
- Novel Memristive Materials
- Emerging memristive devices and architectures
- Memristive devices enabled neuromorphic computing applications
Keywords: memristor, nanoelectronics, neuromorphic computing, artificial synapse, brain-inspired nanodevice.
Biomaterials for Innate Immunity
Submissions open:
23 March 2023
Deadline:
30 June 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Erika Moore (University of Florida, USA) and Shreya Raghavan (Texas A&M University, USA)
This collection will focus on biomaterials applied to the study of innate immune function or the modulation of cells involved in immunity. Submissions are welcome to both Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances.
Advanced Materials for Sensing and Biomedical Applications
Submissions open:
23 March 2023
Deadline:
01 September 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Yogendra Kumar Mishra (Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark) and Ajeet Kaushik (Florida Polytechnique University, USA)
This collection will focus on developments that work towards 1) next-generation sensing technology capable of point-of-care applications and 2) biomedical technology with high efficacy and tuneable properties for targeted delivery and minimal adverse effects.
Surface Engineering of Transition Metal Based 2D Layered Materials
Submissions open:
23 February 2023
Deadline:
01 November 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Subrata Kundu (Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, India)
This themed collection aims to recognize high-quality work on surface engineering of transition metal-based 2D layered materials for anti-corrosion and energy applications.
Sustainable Composites
Submissions open:
Now open for submissions
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.
Conducting Ceramic Membranes for Energy Conversion and Storage
Submissions open:
20 April 2023
Deadline:
01 November 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Kyle Brinkman (Clemson University), Dong Ding (Idaho National Laboratory), Frank Chen (University of South Carolina), Xiao-Dong Zhou (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
This collection will focus on conducting ceramic membranes for energy conversion and storage.
Materials Chemistry Frontiers
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.
Emerging Investigator Series
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
Ongoing
Guest Editor(s):
N/A
Materials Chemistry Frontiers is pleased to present an on-going Emerging Investigator Series, showcasing the work being conducted by Emerging Investigator in the field of materials chemistry across the globe. It highlights up-and-coming scientists in the early stages of their independent careers, who have been identified as having the potential to influence future directions in the field.
This is a joint series with the other Frontiers Journals, Organic Chemistry Frontiers and Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. Frontiers journals collection is co-developed by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and our partner institutes in China.
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.
Polymer Chemistry
Plastic Conversion
Submissions open:
12 July 2022
Deadline:
1 April 2023
Guest Editor(s):
George Huber (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Zhibo Li (Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China), Haritz Sardon (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain), Ina Vollmer (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
The Polymer Chemistry and Catalysis Science & Technology cross-journal collection on ‘Plastic Conversion’ aims to highlight research that makes use of catalysis to optimise plastic recycling and addresses getting the most value out of plastic waste. This special collection recognizes that management of plastic wastes relies on research conducted at the intersection of polymer chemistry and catalysis.
Thermoresponsive polymers
Submissions open:
19 May 2022
Deadline:
1 April 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Theoni Georgiou (Imperial College London, UK), Richard Hoogenboom (Ghent University, Belgium) & Akihiko Kikuchi (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
This collection, Trends in Thermoresponsive Polymers: from Chemistry to Applications, aims to present the latest trends in the chemistry, characterisation, and applications of thermoresponsive polymers. New strategies for the synthesis of thermoresponsive polymers and their characterisation promise to enable a new era of functional thermoresponsive materials in variety fields of applications. Examples include methods to prepare synthetic polymers, hydrogels which show thermoresponsive properties, and their characterisation. These features can impact specific functions such as mechanical properties, self-assembly, or interactions with biological systems, and their applications in a variety of fields, including biomedical applications such as tissue engineering, drug delivery and bioprinting.
Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigators Series
Submissions open:
1 September 2021
Deadline:
Ongoing
Guest Editor(s):
N/A (these ongoing series do not have Guest Editors)
Polymer Chemistry is proud to present its Emerging Investigators Series. This collection gathers the very best work from polymer 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 polymers.
Sensors & Diagnostics
Functional Nanomaterials for Sensing and Diagnostics Applications
Submissions open:
05 April 2023
Deadline:
30 September 2023
Guest Editor(s):
Dr Suresh Kumar Kailasa, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India
Prof Tae Jung Park, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Prof Tsuyoshi Minami, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Sensors & Diagnostics is delighted to announce a call for papers for its latest themed collection on “Functional Nanomaterials for Sensing and Diagnostics Applications,” Guest Edited by: Suresh Kumar Kailasa (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India), Tae Jung Park (Chung-Ang University, South Korea) and Tsuyoshi Minami (The University of Tokyo, Japan).
Soft Matter
Food as soft matter
Submissions open:
1 January 2023
Deadline:
1 September 2023
Guest Editor:
Vivek Sharma (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)
This collection invites contributions in form of articles, communications, reviews and perspectives aimed at understanding and analyzing food as soft matter and molecular gastronomy: the physicochemical basis for designing foods. Imagine bread, butter, wine, cheese, ice cream, chocolates, mayo, frothy beers, milk, yoghurt, sushi, meats, cotton candy, burgers, fondue, chips, cookies, cakes, and champagne. Contributors are requested to use the lens of soft matter and present their original research efforts that dive into the science of cooking and molecular gastronomy, food production, processing, and consumption by highlighting concepts from statistical thermodynamics, macromolecular and soft matter physics, interfacial science, fluid mechanics and rheology (science of deformation & flow). Many food materials are rheologically-complex fluids that can be modeled as multicomponent colloidal dispersions with a continuous liquid phase containing dispersed proteins, polysaccharides, drops, bubbles, particles, and self-assembled structures (like micelles). Contributors are encouraged to discuss the influence of the dispersed and the continuous phases of ingredients like salt, sugar, fat, animal proteins, and gluten on stability, microstructure, rheology, and heuristic properties like dispensing behaviour, stickiness, thickening, stringiness, softness, creaminess, mouthfeel, texture, foamability, and chewability. The Guest Editor’s focus is on curating an anthology and a landmark collection of original papers and reviews that place significant emphasis on understanding current foods to develop the roadmap for sustainable, cost-effective, healthier, and tasteful alternatives, including meat and dairy alternatives with plant-based ingredients.
Soft Matter Emerging Investigators Series
Submissions open:
1 September 2021
Deadline:
Ongoing
Guest Editor(s):
N/A (these ongoing series do not have Guest Editors)
Soft Matter is proud to present its Emerging Investigators Series. This collection gathers the very best work from soft matter 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 soft matter.
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