Engineering journals: open calls for papers

This themed collection aims to collect the recent research breakthroughs, reviews, perspectives and comments on liquid-based materials from fundamentals to applications.

Topics: Advanced gel materials; Liquid metals; ionic liquids; Smart/responsive liquids; Liquid-infused surfaces/membranes; Micro/nanofluidic devices; Soft matter; Bioinspired liquid-based materials; Particles at the liquid interface; Functional & adaptive surfaces, etc.

Emerging Investigators should be at an early stage of their independent career (this should typically be within 12 years of attaining their doctorate or equivalent degree but appropriate consideration is given to those who have taken a career break, work in systems where their time period to independence may vary or who followed an alternative study path).

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to say that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online and they will be published in a regular issue of MSDE.

MSDE is a Transformative Journal and Plan S compliant

This themed collection in MSDE aims to showcase the broad and diverse approaches to the cross-disciplinary field that is molecular bioengineering with a particular focus at the molecular level. We are particularly interested in receiving submissions at the interface of multiple disciplines that showcase applied systems as well as novel design approaches. Both experimental and computational works are encouraged.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and inform the Editorial Office by email. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to say that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online, and they will be published in a regular issue of the relevant journal.

MSDE is a Transformative Journal and Plan S compliant

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a Transformative Journal and Plan S compliant

The Emerging Investigators Series has an overall objective to showcase the full diversity of cutting-edge research carried out by newer voices from across the worldwide reaction engineering research community. We will consider additional applications and nominations on their own merit; please contact us if you are interested in being considered for the series or nominating an exceptional early-career colleague. 

Papers accepted for publication in the Emerging Investigators Series will be published in the earliest available issue and collated together in a dedicated Emerging Investigators page on the journal website. All submissions to the Emerging Investigators Series will be subject to the journal’s high standards in peer review. 

In order to be eligible to feature as an Emerging Investigator, contributors must: 

• Publish research within the journal scope.
• Currently be an independent research leader.
• Have not been featured as an Emerging Investigator in a previous Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Emerging Investigators Series article.
• Have either a) received their PhD no earlier than 1 January of the year 12 years prior to the year of submission, or b) have no more than 12 years of post-PhD research experience on 1 January in the year of submission when taking into account any career breaks.

Authors previously featured as Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Emerging Investigators may with no restriction be co-authors on subsequent papers in the Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Emerging Investigators Series, but they may not be the sole eligible corresponding author and will not be featured as Emerging Investigators more than once. 

Contributors will be required to confirm their eligibility by sending their CV to the journal editors.

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a Transformative Journal and Plan S compliant

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and inform the Editorial Office by email. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to say that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online, and they will be published in a regular issue of the relevant journal.

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a Transformative Journal and Plan S compliant