Energy Advances
Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
30 September 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Robert Pankow (The University of Texas at El Paso), Rengui Li (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Fiona Beck (Australian National University), Aruna Ivaturi (University of Strathclyde)
In this gold open-access themed collection, we aim to cover the latest developments at the forefront of this field, with a focus on emerging materials and methods.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Nanomaterials in photovoltaics – including quantum dot and nanowire-based solar cells, and thin-film solar cells incorporating nanomaterials.
- Nanomaterials for solar fuel production – encompassing photo(electro)catalytic water splitting, CO2 conversion, N2 conversion and the related solar-driven catalysis.
- Nanomaterial based devices – including integrating nanomaterials into solar cells, plasmonic effects in improving the performance of solar cells, and more resource-efficient methods of manufacturing nanomaterials and devices.
- Papers considering the fundamental behaviour of nanomaterials, including charge carrier transport and quantum effects. These studies should consider the relevance of these phenomena in the context of advancing energy science.
Improving All-Solid-State Batteries through Atomistic Modelling
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
12 January 2025
Guest Editor(s):
Bora Karasulu (University of Warwick), Nella Vargas-Barbosa (University of Bayreuth), Pooja Goddard (Loughborough University)
In this gold open-access themed collection, we aim to cover the latest developments at the forefront of this field, with a focus on the discovery and advancement of materials for all-solid-state batteries through the use of atomistic modelling methods.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Discovery of novel materials for use as electrodes, solid electrolytes, or protective layers.
- Analysis of microscopic properties of materials and their interfaces to better understand their use in Li/Na/K/Mg-ion all-solid-state battery applications.
- Computational techniques can vary widely from electronic structure theory and density functional theory to machine-learned and empirical interatomic potentials, combined with crystal structure predictions.
- Collaborative work between computational researchers and experimentalists is welcomed.
Green Chemistry
Exploring the Frontiers: Unveiling New Horizons in Carbon Efficient Biomass Utilization
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
31 October 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Zhi-Hua Liu (Tianjin University), Bing-Zhi Li (Tianjin University), Joshua Yuan (Washington University in St. Louis), James Clark (University of York), Vânia Zuin Zeidler (Leuphana Universitat Luneburg), Lieve Laurens (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Arthur Ragauskas (The University of Tennessee Knoxville), Joao Coutinho (CICECO-Universidade de Aveiro) and Buxing Han (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Lignocellulosic biomass, which is the most plentiful source of renewable energy, serves as a vital storehouse of energy within chemical bonds formed during photosynthetic CO2 reduction. The utilization of this abundant natural resource has a transformative role in the advancement of sustainable development and human civilization. Biomass conversion employs environmentally friendly techniques to convert renewable bioresources into valuable products such as biofuels, chemicals, and materials. Biomass utilization contributes significantly to the transition towards bio-economy, green chemistry, and carbon neutrality. This themed collection intends to showcase cutting-edge research, advancements, and innovations in carbon efficient biomass utilization, with a particular focus on uncovering new possibilities and opportunities in this field.
Green and Sustainable Batteries Themed Collection
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
31 March 2025
Guest Editor(s):
Magda Titirici (Imperial College London), Rebeca Marcilla (IMDEA Energy Institute), Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo (Institute of Carboquimica ICB-CSIC) and Theresa Schoetz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
This themed collection will showcase cutting-edge research, advancements, and remaining challenges in sustainable batteries that balance performance, cost and environmental sustainability. The collection aims to uncover new research opportunities in this field by featuring multidisciplinary research on alternative battery chemistries, sustainable electrolytes, sustainability assessment (including assessing materials criticality and its environmental impact), battery recycling, electrodes manufacturing for improved performance, understanding and preventing degradation and improving lifetime, design for disassembly and techno-economic assessment among other topics closely fitting to the sustainable battery topic.
Green Chemistry Emerging Investigators Series
Submissions open:
Open for nominations now
Deadline:
Ongoing
Guest Editor(s):
N/A
Green Chemistry is proud to present its Emerging Investigator Series, showcasing the work being conducted by Emerging Investigators. This collection aims to highlight the excellent research being carried out by researchers in the early stages of their independent careers from across the breadth of green chemistry.
Industrial Chemistry & Materials
Liquid-based Materials: Novel Concepts from Fundamentals to Applications
Submissions open:
1 November 2023
Deadline:
10 April 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
Nanomaterials for a sustainable future: From materials to devices and systems
Submissions open:
25 March 2024
Deadline:
2 September 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Professor Guohua Jia (Curtin University, Australia), Professor Hongxia Wang (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Professor Xuyong Yang (Shanghai University, China), Professor Lina Quan (Virginia Tech, USA) and Professor Yun Liu (Australian National University, Australia)
As modern society’s demand for energy continues to grow, the development of nanomaterials for reducing energy consumption and generating and storing energy is becoming increasingly important. With advances in synthesis methods and theoretical simulations of nanomaterials, attention has turned to how nanomaterials can be rationally designed and synthesized, transformed into energy devices, and ultimately, how devices (such as solar cells, batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, light-emitting diodes, photodetectors etc.) can be integrated into systems to tackle real global challenges. This Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Nanoscale cross-journal collection will capture the cutting-edge innovations in nanomaterials synthesis, simulation, device fabrication, and system integration that are driving this field forward.
Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
- Multifunctional materials (electrical, magnetic, electrochemical, optical, and mechanical materials, etc.)
- Quantum materials (quantum dots, 2D materials, photonics materials, etc.)
- Energy materials (materials for catalysis, CO2 reduction, batteries, hydrogen and solar energy conversion, etc.)
- Materials chemistry calculations (DFT and molecular dynamic simulation and modelling, machine learning assisted design and materials screening, etc.)
- Materials for environment (materials for environment protection, pollutants and toxic products, treatment, environmental remediation, etc.)
- Advanced characterization methods for materials (in-situ Raman, NMR, XRD; synchrotron radiation, neutron diffraction, atomic force microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, etc.)
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.
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:
31 July 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, email us to enquire now.
CO2 Conversion
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
14 August 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)
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 August 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Vincent Nyamori (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Alice Fan (University of York, UK)
Matthew Davies (Swansea University, UK)
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 this, enquire about the RSC Sustainability Circular Economy-themed collection.
Green and Sustainable Batteries Themed Collection
Submissions open:
Now open for submission
Deadline:
31 March 2025
Guest Editor(s):
Magda Titirici (Imperial College London), Rebeca Marcilla (IMDEA Energy Institute), Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo (Institute of Carboquimica ICB-CSIC) and Theresa Schoetz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
This themed collection will showcase cutting-edge research, advancements, and remaining challenges in sustainable batteries that balance performance, cost and environmental sustainability. The collection aims to uncover new research opportunities in this field by featuring multidisciplinary research on alternative battery chemistries, sustainable electrolytes, sustainability assessment (including assessing materials criticality and its environmental impact), battery recycling, electrodes manufacturing for improved performance, understanding and preventing degradation and improving lifetime, design for disassembly and techno-economic assessment among other topics closely fitting to the sustainable battery topic.
Sustainable Energy & Fuels
Metal-Free Photo/electrocatalysts for Sustainable Energy Solutions
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
20 December 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Menny Shalom (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Sebastian Sprick (University of Strathclyde, UK) and Xinchen Wang (Fuzhou University, China)
This Sustainable Energy & Fuels themed collection, guest edited by Menny Shalom, Sebastian Sprick, and Xinchen Wang, will showcase metal-free photo- and electrocatalytic materials for sustainable energy applications.
Photo- and electrocatalysis are promising research areas for sustainable energy applications and chemicals production. Metal-free photo- and electrocatalysts for energy conversion potentially offer a low-cost and efficient solution. These materials include carbon nitrides, boron carbon nitrides, triazine-based frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, conjugated materials as well as composites and biohybrid systems. This collection aims to highlight the unique properties of metal-free photo- and electrocatalysts and their important energy applications such as photocatalytic water splitting, carbon dioxide reduction, hydrogen peroxide production and organic transformation reactions.
Green and Sustainable Batteries Themed Collection
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
31 March 2025
Guest Editor(s):
Magda Titirici (Imperial College London), Rebeca Marcilla (IMDEA Energy Institute), Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo (Institute of Carboquimica ICB-CSIC) and Theresa Schoetz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
This themed collection will showcase cutting-edge research, advancements, and remaining challenges in sustainable batteries that balance performance, cost and environmental sustainability. The collection aims to uncover new research opportunities in this field by featuring multidisciplinary research on alternative battery chemistries, sustainable electrolytes, sustainability assessment (including assessing materials criticality and its environmental impact), battery recycling, electrodes manufacturing for improved performance, understanding and preventing degradation and improving lifetime, design for disassembly and techno-economic assessment among other topics closely fitting to the sustainable battery topic.
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
Green strategies for valorising underexplored biomasses to obtain novel food ingredients, additives, and products
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
2 October 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Elena Ibañez (CIAL-CSIC, Spain; ORCID 0000-0002-0275-6958), Lidia Montero (CIAL-CSIC, Spain; ORCID 0000-0001-5722-138X), Jose Mendiola (CIAL-CSIC, Spain; ORCID 0000-0001-6709-349X)
Aiming to fulfil the Sustainable Development Goals towards the 2030 agenda, new strategies are needed to ensure the sustainable production of products and ingredients. One of these strategies is the use of underexplored biomasses from different origins (animal, plant, microbial, marine, terrestrial, agricultural by-products, etc.), which could provide new food ingredients, additives or products that meet sustainability criteria and allow the development of circular bioeconomy strategies within the food industry. Valorisation of underexplored biomass and underutilized resources can open the door to novel products with new applications and improved characteristics, while new technological and greener processes, meeting the criteria of low environmental impact and high productivity, can improve the sustainability of the food industry. Therefore, the present collection aims at gathering original manuscripts, review articles and opinion articles within its scope, which includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- New underexplored biomasses and underutilised resources to obtain novel food ingredients
- New underexplored biomasses and underutilised resources to obtain new additives and products with improved characteristics
- New green processes to extract compounds/ingredients from underused biomasses
- New green manufacturing processes to develop new products for the food industry
- New green biorefinery processes for underexplored biomasses and underutilized resources
- Life Cycle Assessment or other metric tools to evaluate the greenness of a process or product
AI in Food Production
Submissions open:
Open for submissions now
Deadline:
28 November 2024
Guest Editor(s):
Sigfredo Fuentes (University of Melbourne, Australia; ORCID 0000-0002-0377-5085), Claudia Gonzalez Viejo (University of Melbourne, Australia; ORCID 0000-0001-9207-9307), Eden Tongson (University of Melbourne, Australia; ORCID 0000-0003-1187-2130), Sylvio Barbon Junior (University of Trieste, Italy; ORCID 0000-0002-4988-0702)
The integration of digital technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), within the food and beverage industries has garnered significant attention in recent years. This embrace of computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, sensor arrays, robotics, biometrics, and remote sensing has ushered in a new era of efficiency and innovation. However, alongside these advancements, the imperative of sustainability has emerged as a crucial consideration.
*2023 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2024)
**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™ 2023 available at www.scopus.com/sources
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