Special Issue "Biodegradability and Environmental Sciences"

Managing Editor
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail:
Interests: molecular recognition; entropy; Gibbs paradox; irreversibility; stability; symmetry; similarity; diversity; diversity preservation; evolution; information theory; thermodynamics; enzyme inhibitors; heterocycles; isotopically-labeled compounds; Lewis acids and bases; quninoxaline N-oxides; photochemistry ESR; aromaticity; protein folding; nature of chemical processes

Editorial Advisor
Dr. Naozumi Teramoto
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology 2-17-1, Tsudanuma, Narashino, Chiba 275-0016, Japan
E-Mail:
Interests: biomaterial; bio-based polymer; bioplastics; biodegradable polymer; biopolymer; composite material comprising a polymer matrix

Links to Special Issues in other Journals

• Biodegradability of Materials in the Int. J. Mol. Sci.
• Biodegradability of Materials in Materials
• Biodegradation: Organic, Medicinal and Analytical Chemistry in Molecules

Summary

To protect environment, the biodegradable materials have great advantage. However, sometimes, for material stability, biodegradation is a problem, for example, the biomedical materials.

• - free for readers, with low publishing fees paid by authors or their institutions
• Free publication for manuscripts submitted by end of 2008.
• Rapid publication: accepted papers are immediately published online (we started to publish papers quickly since September 2008). The printed edition will only be continued for the Proceedings of the yearly International Symposiums on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research starting 2009.

Submission

The Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601) was launched in 2004 and is an Open Access journal, with the main Editorial Office located in Basel, Switzerland. It has been accepted for coverage in Science Citation Index Expanded, available as the Web of Science and in Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences. Coverage will begin with the 2009 issues. This journal is also abstracted and indexed very rapidly by Chemical Abstracts, MedLine/PubMed and EMBASE. The IJERPH maintains a rapid editorial procedure and a rigorous peer-review system. Well written papers have been peer-reviewed and published in less than 4 weeks from manuscript submission. All papers published in IJERPH have DOI numbers.

All papers should be submitted to ijerph@mdpi.org with copy to the guest editor. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at this special issue website.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a paper. Open Access publication fees are 300 CHF per paper. English correction fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (550 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.). Free publication in open access format for manuscripts submitted in 2008.

biodegradable polymers, organics or materials