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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  • Main group chemistry

    This Main Group Chemistry Collection invites submissions covering fundamental and applied research and welcomes both experimental and theoretical contributions.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 May 2024

    • Self-Assembled Soft Matter

      In this cross-journal Collection, across Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports, we focus on different forms of self-assembled soft matter, from fundamental studies to applied systems. This includes, for example, coacervation and liquid-liquid phase separation, chiral systems and polymer assemblies.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 October 2024

      • Ending plastic pollution

        Plastics are a crucial part of modern life, however tens of millions of tonnes of plastic waste is disposed of each year, much of which ultimately ends up in the ocean. In this Collection we showcase studies on understanding and mitigating (micro)plastic pollution, with a special focus on reducing plastic waste in the environment to coincide with 2024's upcoming binding UN treaty on Ending Plastic Pollution.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 October 2024

        • Sodium-based battery development

          This cross-journal Collection brings together the latest developments in electrodes, electrolytes, and battery components used in aqueous and non-aqueous sodium-based battery applications.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 October 2024

          • 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.
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                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 May 2024