Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our calls for papers, for our upcoming Guest Edited Collections. For enquiries, please contact scirep.collection@springernature.com.

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  • Fragments in Drug Discovery

    In this collection, we want to highlight research that focuses on fragments in drug discovery. Have you found validated fragment hits for a new disease target? Maybe they unlocked an unreported enzyme mechanism? Were you able to develop a method that is useful for fragment-based drug discovery? Perhaps you found a hit that made it to clinical trials? We invite all scientists who work with fragments in the context of drug discovery to submit their interesting fragment stories. We look forward to hearing all about them.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 September 2024
    • Advances in catalytic hydrogen evolution

      This collection encourages submissions related to hydrogen evolution catalysis, particularly where hydrogen gas is the primary product. This is a cross-journal partnership between the Energy Materials team at Nature Communications with Communications Chemistry, Communications Engineering, Communications Materials, and Scientific Reports. We seek studies covering a range of perspectives including materials design & development, catalytic performance, or underlying mechanistic understanding. Other works focused on potential applications and large-scale demonstration of hydrogen evolution are also welcome.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 September 2024
      • Self-driving labs and automation software for chemistry and materials science

        This cross-journal collection is dedicated to the development and application of automation tools (software and hardware) for chemistry and materials science, curated by Editors from Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry, Communications Engineering, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 August 2024
        • High-entropy Materials

          This Collection aims to collate original research striving to address challenges related to scalability, processing techniques, atomic-level microstructure analysis, and structure-property relationship in this vibrant field.
          • Prasanna V. Balachandran, PhD
          • Ben Breitung, PhD
          • Varun Chaudhary, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 June 2024
        • Protein condensates

          This themed Collection aims to bring together research articles on unravelling the intricate mechanisms and roles of different protein condensates, developing novel tools to characterize their formation and dynamics, and exploring how aberrant condensate formation can impact pathological conditions.
          • Emilio Gutierrez-Beltran, PhD
          • Yanchang Wang, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 August 2024
        • Water splitting

          The papers featured in this Collection will showcase advances in the methods and technologies of hydrogen production through electrocatalysis and photocatalysis of water and related strategies.
          • Xiaobo Chen, PhD
          • Ho Won Jang, PhD
          • Carlos Alberto Martínez-Huitle, PhD
          • Rita Mazzoni, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 17 August 2024
        • Spin interactions in Chemistry

          In this Collection, we invite original research that deepens the understanding of spin state dynamics and spin effects and harnesses the gained insights to design novel reactions, catalytic processes, and materials with tailored functionalities.
          • Kazuyuki Sakamoto, PhD
          • Jiabao Yi, PhD
          • Lin Zhu, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 August 2024
        • Nanophotonics-enabled Spectroscopy and Microscopy

          This Collection welcomes original research that reports advances in nanomaterials characterization, heterogeneous catalysis, and biomolecule detection fueled by nanophotonics-enabled spectroscopy and microscopy.
          • Alina Karabchevsky, PhD
          • Wei Wang, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 July 2024
        • Bioengineering for Advanced Food Processing

          This Collection is dedicated to communicating the latest research on advancing food processing by leveraging bioengineering technology, from metabolic and biosynthesis engineering to byproduct-to-biomaterials conversion.
          • Roberto Moscetti, PhD
          • Anubhav Pratap-Singh, PhD
          • Jian-Zhong Xu, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 July 2024
        • Deep Eutectic Solvents

          This themed Collection aims to capture a snapshot of the latest research on exploring new deep eutectic solvents for various applications (e.g., gas separation and batteries), along with deepening comprehension of the correlation between their physicochemical properties and performance.
          • Pankaj Attri, PhD
          • Mara G. Freire, PhD
          • Siddharth Pandey, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 23 July 2024