Publishing frequency: 6 issues per year
Editorial Board Chair: Juan de Pablo
Scope
Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (MSDE) provides a hub for experimental, theoretical and computational research into how understanding of molecular properties, behaviour and interactions can be used to design and assemble better materials, systems, and processes to achieve specific functions. These may have applications of technological significance and help address global challenges.
Crossing the boundary between chemistry and chemical engineering, this unique new journal is a joint venture between the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).
The journal has a truly interdisciplinary nature, bringing together physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and materials science to address:
- the design of molecules and systems of molecules
- the study of molecular systems behaviours that introduce new concepts and tools or inspire new molecular designs for engineering applications
- the conception, design or engineering of functional devices based on molecular principles
- the constraints that impact systems functionality
- evolutionary design and high-throughput studies
- tools for molecular design
All papers should demonstrate a molecular design or optimisation strategy targeting specific systems functionality and performance. Such methodologies having utility beyond the scope of the current work and covering multiple scales are particularly encouraged.
Examples of relevant systems and applications include, but are not limited to, the following.
Energy harvesting & storage: batteries, solar devices, fuel cells, thermoelectrics
Environmental: membranes, porous materials, detection & monitoring devices
Bioengineering: imaging & diagnostics, tissue engineering & regeneration, therapeutics design & delivery
Quantum engineering: computing, cryptography, sensors, photonics
Nano-manufacturing and control: directed self-assembly, nano-lithography
Hard and soft materials: liquid crystals, ceramics, lubricants, polymers, glasses
Electronics: molecular wires and switches, organic devices
Processes: solvents, chemical manufacturing, CO2 capture
Why publish in MSDE?
This journal partnership between the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) marks a significant collaboration between two distinguished societies. It will make your work visible to an expanded community of scientists and engineers, forge links between disciplines and accelerate advance in the field to help solve real-world problems. This is in addition to the rapid times to publication, efficient and fair peer review, and international exposure you receive when publishing in any of our journals.
The journal also offers:
- A dedicated editorial service
- Promotion of top articles
- Free colour, PDF reprints and electronic supplementary information (ESI)
- Open access options
Chair
Juan de Pablo, University of Chicago, USA
Editorial board members
Claire S Adjiman, Imperial College London, UK
Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern University, USA
Luke Connal, Australian National University, Australia
Andrew deMello, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Andrew Ferguson, University of Chicago, USA
Kristi Kiick, University of Delaware, USA
Yongye Liang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Patrick Stayton, University of Washington, USA
Neil Hammond, Executive Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0001-6390-8874
Nicola Dennis, Deputy Editor, Journals
Hugh Cowley, Development Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-4021-0518
Jonathon Watson, Editorial Production Manager, Journals
Jack Busby, Senior Publishing Editor, Journals
Matthew Blow, Publishing Editor, Journals
Daniella Ferluccio, Publishing Editor, Journals
Geraldine Hay, Publishing Editor, Journals
Carole Martin, Publishing Editor, Journals
Eve Rooks, Publishing Editor, Journals
Sophie Redman, Editorial Assistant, Journals
Allison Holloway, Publishing Assistant, Journals
Alfredo Alexander-Katz, MIT, USA
Helena Azevedo, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Andre Bardow, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge, UK
Joao Cabral, Imperial College London, UK
Neil Champness, University of Nottingham, UK
Paulette Clancy, John Hopkins University, USA
Jennifer Cochran, Stanford University, USA
Marc-Olivier Coppens, UCL, UK
Graeme Day, University of Southampton, UK
Pablo G. Debenedetti, Princeton University, USA
Cécile Dreiss, Kings College London, UK
Thomas Epps, III, University of Delaware, USA
Robert Falconer, University of Sheffield, UK
Lei Fang, Texas A&M University, USA
C. Daniel Frisbie, University of Minnesota, USA
Subi George, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research, India
Xuefeng Guo, Peking University, China
Raju Kumar Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University, USA
Arthi Jayaraman, University of Delaware, USA
Takashi Kato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sang Ouk Kim, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Ludwik Liebler, ESPCI Paris, France
Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University, USA
Heidi Mansour, University of Arizona, USA
Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Axel Mueller, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Takashi Nakanishi, NIMS, Japan
Ki Tae Nam, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Insup Noh, Seoul National University of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea
Mark A. Olson, Tianjin University, China
Ho Bum Park, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Jon Parquette, Ohio State University, USA
Boaz Pokroy, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Jeffrey Rimer, University of Houston, USA
Shu Seki, Kyoto University, Japan
Randy Snurr, Northwestern University, USA
Brigitte Stadler, Aarhus University, Denmark
Doros Theodorou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Matthew Tirrell, University of Chicago, USA
Bernhardt L. Trout, MIT, USA
Raymond W. Y. Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Kim Woodrow, University of Washington, USA
Jing Zhang, Chinese Academic of Sciences, China
Jia Zhu, Nanjing University, China
Meifang Zhu, Donghua University, China
Journal specific guidelines
There are no specific requirements regarding formatting of submissions; we recommend using the Royal Society of Chemistry template but this is not a requirement for submission. All articles accepted for publication in our journals are edited and typeset to our house style by professional editors; we will format the final publication for you.
The following guidelines are journal specific. For general guidance on preparing an article please visit our Prepare your article page, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals.
All articles must include a separate Design, System, Application paragraph (no more than 200 words), that:
- explains the molecular design or optimisation strategy and its general utility
- emphasises the desired systems functionality and design constraints
- highlights the immediate or future application potential of the work.
This paragraph is intended to be accessible to the broad interdisciplinary readership of the journal, and therefore should be written in a general manner to complement more detailed discussions of these aspects within the main text. It should not reproduce the abstract.
Subscription Information
Online only 2020: ISSN 2058-9689, £2,006 / $3,310
*2018 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)
**Average time from receipt to first decision for peer reviewed manuscripts in 2019
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