Applied Sciences

Thermal and Thermomechanical Management in Electronic Systems

edited by

Yonghai Zhang

, Xiaoping Yang and

Jiaqi Li

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1429 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal management; electronics; energy storage; heat and mass transfer

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Recent Research and Applications of Vibration Isolation and Control

edited by Baiyang Shi,

Quanmin Zhu

and Wei Dai

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1191 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear dynamics; vibration control; vibration isolation; tuned mass damper; uncertainty; optimization; power flow; energy transfer

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Synthetic and Natural Drugs: Pharmacological Activity, Biochemical Properties, and Applications

edited by

Kasireddy Sudarshan

and

Hari Prasad Devkota

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1117 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic drugs; natural products; pharmacological activity; biochemical properties; drug discovery; mechanisms of action; ADME (absorption; distribution; metabolism; excretion); drug design; drug resistance; combination therapies; targeted therapy; therapeutic applications; personalized medicine; structure-based drug design; preclinical to clinical translation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Sustainability in Functional Textiles: Materials, Technology and Design

edited by Isabel Cabral and

Jorge Padrão

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 923 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-performance textiles; smart textiles and wearable technology; medical textiles; multifunctional textiles; eco-design; circular economy; biomimicry and bio-inspired; advanced manufacturing and nanotechnology; textile coloration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Trends and Prospects in Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery for Cancer Therapy

edited by

Iwona Rzeszutek

,

Roger Narayan

and

Chang Ming Charlie Ma

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 822 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanoparticles; drug delivery; nanocarriers; medicinal purposes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Near/Mid-Infrared Lasers: Latest Advances and Applications

edited by

Chen Chen

and Biao Wang

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 771 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel near/mid-IR sources and techniques; nonlinear and laser materials for near/mid-IR; ultrashort near/mid-IR pulses and frequency combs; near/mid-IR supercontinuum generation; near/mid-IR fibers and fiber lasers; near/mid-IR integrated photonics; new sources and techniques for near/mid-IR spectroscopy; near/mid-IR sensing; imaging; and spectroscopy; strong-field physics pumped by near/mid-IR laser; biomedical applications of near/mid-IR lasers; novel techniques of near/mid-IR spectral and temporal measurement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)

Novel Approaches and Applications in Human–Robot Interactions

edited by Ho Seok Ahn and

David (Bong Jun) Choi

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 686 | Submission Open

Keywords: human– robot interactions (HRIs); co-speech gestures; social interaction; collaborative robots; human-centered design; adaptability; emotional engagement; human– AI teamwork

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advanced Technology in Geotechnical Engineering

edited by Qingrong Xiong

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 547 | Submission Open

Keywords: micromechanics; multiscale modeling; particle interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advances in Fire Safety Engineering and Applications

edited by

Dongli Gao

and Eric Lee

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 515 | Submission Open

Keywords: pedestrian dynamics; evacuation modeling; building evacuation; fire modeling; fire dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Concrete Structures: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Mariella Diaferio

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 471 | Submission Open

Keywords: damage assessment; performance evaluation; design procedures for concrete structures; structural modeling; innovative concrete-based building materials; diagnosis techniques; experimental investigation on concrete structures; strengthening and repair of concrete structures; analysis of case studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Artificial Intelligence in Mining, Mineral and Material Processing

edited by

Xiu Liu

and

Chris Aldrich

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 283 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; data analytics; automation; resource estimation; process optimization; environmental impact

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Advances in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering: Challenges and Solutions

edited by

Lanmin Wang

and Gang Wang

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open

Keywords: seismic design; analysis methods; tunnels; underground infrastructure; liquefaction; ground; foundation; structure; measuments; seismic isolation; geotechnical measurements; ground; foundation; resillient design; earthquake geotechnical engineering; seismic input; site effect; dynamic soil– structure interation; seismic landslides; flow slide; liquefaction; subsidence; geosynthetics; seismic resistance; deformation; stability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Future Autonomous Vehicles and Their Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications

edited by

Redouane Khemmar

and

Karim Hammoudi

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: environment perception; object detection; deep learning; artificial intelligence; object tracking; mobile robotics; localization; autonomous vehicles; scene analysis and understanding; smart mobility

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)

Digital Signal Processing for Wireless Communications and Multimedia Systems

edited by

Urszula Libal

and

Tomasz Grajek

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open

Keywords: signal processing; image processing; audio and speech processing; noise reduction; feature extraction; dimensionality reduction; sparse representation; data compression; signal parametrization; signal representations; pattern recognition; machine learning; statistical learning; deep learning; applications in signal and image processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics in Cancer Genomics: Innovations and Applications

edited by

Petar Brlek

and

Malik Yousef

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; cancer research; bioinformatics; machine learning; multi-omics; precision oncology; deep learning; big data; precision therapy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Therapeutic Applications and Biology of Extracellular Vesicles

edited by

Paola Lanuti

,

Francesco Cappello

and

Celeste Caruso Bavisotto

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open

Keywords: extracellular vesicles; diagnostic biomarkers; drug Delivery; immunomodulation; angiogenesis; tumorigenesis; precision medicine; regenerative medicine

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Wireless Communication Technologies: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Feng Li

and

Sergio Spanò

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence-enabled wireless communication; integrated sensing and communication; physical layer security; resource allocation; intelligent reflection surface; non-orthogonal multiple access; fluid antenna; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Impact of Environmental Pollution: Towards Contaminant Assessment and Sustainable Remediation

edited by

Dario Savoca

and

Silvia Orecchio

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 152 | Submission Open

Keywords: analytical chemistry; environmental chemistry; environmental impact; xenobiotic substances; toxic compounds; exposure effects; bioindicator; biomagnification; pollutant removal; environmental remediation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR): Theory, Methods and Applications: Second Edition

edited by Deshan Feng,

Xun Wang

and Bin Zhang

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground-penetrating radar; ground-penetrating radar theory; numerical simulation; data processing and interpretation; inversion and imaging; ground-penetrating radar application

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Recent Advances in Microwave Photonics: Second Edition

edited by

Tengfei Hao

and

Nuannuan Shi

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave photonics; integrated microwave photonics; microwave photonic link; microwave photonic signal processor; optoelectronic oscillator; radio over fiber

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)

Emerging Cyber-Physical Systems for Industry 5.0

edited by

Anikó Costa

and Sanaz Nikghadam-Hojjati

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: cyber– physical systems; Industry 5.0; Society 5.0; feeling economy; co-creation; collaborative intelligence; human-machine collaboration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Phytochemicals as Natural Nutrients in the Prevention and Therapy of Diseases

edited by

Natalia Kurhaluk

and Halina Tkaczenko

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 129 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural antioxidant therapy; dietary phytochemical sources; bioavailability enhancement techniques; clinical nutrition applications; phytochemical synergy effects; chronic disease prevention; gut microbiota modulation; epigenetic pathway regulation; functional food innovation; sustainable dietary practices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Smart Composites: Design, Manufacturing, and Integration—2nd Edition

edited by

Marco P. Silva

and

João Nunes-Pereira

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart materials; composites; smart composites; self-sensing; electromechanical response; haptic feedback; sensors; actuators; multifunctional materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Technologies for Underwater Wireless Communication

edited by

Andrea Petroni

and

Mauro Biagi

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open

Keywords: underwater communication; underwater networks; underwater communication protocols; Internet of Underwater Things; underwater optical communication; underwater acoustic communication; underwater channel modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Advanced Studies in Molecular and Metabolic Mechanisms of Diabetes

edited by

Karima Zitouni

and David Gillott

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open

Keywords: B-cell dysfunction; B-cell regeneration; type 2 diabetes pathogenesis; diabetes therapies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Innovative Functional Materials for a Sustainable Future: From Synthesis to Application

edited by

Jose Maria Calderon-Moreno

and

Monica Popa

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable functional materials; green chemistry; eco-friendly material synthesis; smart and responsive materials; biodegradable materials; biobased polymers; energy storage materials; water purification; environmental applications; circular economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Research on Endodontic Treatment Methods and Materials—2nd Edition

edited by

Márk Antal

and

Márk Fráter

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: endodontics; endodontic surgery; static guidance; dynamic guidance; endodontic anatomy; periapical anatomy; precision of endodontic interventions; success of endodontic interventions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)

Feature Review Papers in Agricultural Science and Technology

edited by

Claudio De Pasquale

and

Natalija Topić Popović

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 83789 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop production; crop protection; food sciences and food technology; agricultural statistics; bioinformatics; farm structure; farm power and machinery; irrigation and drainage; engineering of land and water resources; aquaculture and fisheries; animals; renewable energy; agro-industrial engineering; horticultural and greenhouse engineering; pre- and post-harvest engineering; environment and agricultural information technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)

Biomechanics and Sport Engineering: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Ana Martins Amaro

and

Luís Roseiro

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18340 | Submission Open

Keywords: sport biomechanics; exercise performance; injury evaluation and rehabilitation; injury prevention; athletic training

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Recent Advances in Biomechanics of Human Movement and Its Clinical Applications: 2nd Edition

edited by

Weijie Wang

and

Dong Ming

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13454 | Submission Open

Keywords: gait; artificial intelligence; machine learning and deep learning; electromyograph (EMG); electroencephalogram (EEG); strength; rehabilitation; physiotherapy; stroke; cerebral palsy; motion capture; sensor; joint and bone; muscle; artificial implant; algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

The Role of Bioactive Natural Products in Health and Disease

edited by

Anna Muzykiewicz-Szymańska

,

Karolina Jakubczyk

and

Anna Nowak

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11717 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural products; medicinal plants; chemistry; pharmacology; plant extract; isolation method; natural drugs; chromatography; antioxidants; natural food

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Structural Health Monitoring in Bridges and Infrastructure

edited by

Yang Yang

,

Yang Yang

and Lijun Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8886 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring; structural damage identification; structural response reconstruction; structural load identification; structural diagnosis; machine learning; intelligent algorithms; bridge/ infrastructure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Functional Foods and Natural Products: Bioactive Compounds and Beneficial Effects on Health—3rd Edition

edited by

António José Madeira Nogueira

and

Andrea Luísa Fernandes Afonso

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8648 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural products; bioactive compounds; water quality; antioxidants; anti-inflammatory; antimicrobial; anticytotoxic; cell proliferation and apoptosis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Sports Biomechanics and Injury Prevention

edited by

Jorge Sánchez-Infante

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7686 | Submission Open

Keywords: sports biomechanics; injury prevention; motion analysis; preventive interventions; sports technology; sports rehabilitation; risk factors; biomechanical assessment; sports performance; sports education and training; physiotherapy; rehabilitation; sports medicine; muscle injury; prevention and treatment of injuries

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Additive Manufacturing for Novel and Advanced Materials: Characteristics, Challenges, and Applications

edited by Edgar Moraru and

Manoj Gupta

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7630 | Submission Open

Keywords: additive manufacturing; digital manufacturing; metal additive manufacturing; ceramic additive manufacturing; polymer additive manufacturing; composite additive manufacturing; 3D printing; 4D printing; rapid prototyping; fused deposition modelling; vat photopolymerisation; selective laser melting; selective laser sintering; selective electron-beam melting; powder bed fusion; binder jetting; material jetting; laminated object manufacturing; direct metal deposition; resin-based materials; powder-based materials; filament-based materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)

Additive Manufacturing in Material Processing

edited by

Erfan Maleki

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7300 | Submission Open

Keywords: additive manufacturing; material processing; mechanical properties; advanced materials; process optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)

Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Physical Properties of Materials for Nuclear Engineering

edited by

Leonid Burakovsky

and

Alexander I. Landa

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 6621 | Submission Open

Keywords: materials for nuclear engineering; nuclear fuels (metallic and ceramic); coolants (gases; light water; heavy water; and liquid metals); moderators; absorbers; and structural materials; thermodynamic properties (density; enthalpy; specific heat capacity; melting and boiling points; heat of fusion and vaporization; vapor pressure; thermal expansion; and surface tension); transport properties (thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity; viscosity; integral thermal conductivity; electrical resistivity; and emissivity); solid and liquid states

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Multimodal Information-Assisted Visual Recognition or Generation

edited by Wenjuan Gong,

Guoqiang Zhong

and Weishan Zhang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5671 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; multimodal information fusion; large-model-guided visual interpretation; GAN and diffusion-model-based visual generation; federated multimodal learning for computer vision; quantum multimodal algorithms for computer vision

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Deep Learning and Digital Image Processing

edited by Xingjian Gu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5501 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; image process; classification; video understand; remote sensing; medical image; multi modal; document analysis; time series analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Solving Environmental and Cultural Heritage Issues Through Analytical Tools

edited by

Paola Fermo

and

Andrea Bergomi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5475 | Submission Open

Keywords: analytical chemistry; analytical techniques; analytical methodologies; environment; cultural heritage

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Air Quality Monitoring, Analysis and Modeling

edited by

Hyo Choi

and Kuruvilla John

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5158 | Submission Open

Keywords: air pollution monitoring and analysis of particulate matters and gaseous (ratio matrix; importance; moving average technique); air pollution monitoring and mapping (Surfer; QGIS; etc.) and improvement of satellite images (SAR; MODIS; etc.) and geographical information system (GIS); AI (artificial neural network modeling; machine learning and deep learning) and multivariate statistical modeling; 3D-numerical modeling on air pollutant concentration and its dispersion; air quality variation affected by the atmospheric boundary layer and severe weather (cold front; internal gravity waves; etc.); emission and transport of air pollutants; nocturnal ozone increase due to transportation and ozone folding; air pollution impact on human health; desertification of land through climate change due to the increase in carbon dioxide; improvement method and policy of air pollution state; renewable energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Environmental Management in Milk Production and Processing

edited by

Wojciech Janczukowicz

,

Joanna Rodziewicz

and

Artur Mielcarek

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5110 | Submission Open

Keywords: milk production and processing; environmental aspects and impacts; environmental footprint; technical solutions protecting environment; environmental management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)

Quantum Communication and Applications

edited by

André Nuno Carvalho Souto

and

Nikola Paunkovic

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4983 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum communication protocols; applications for secure quantum communications and software; key distribution/arrangement schemes; authentication schemes; quantum secure machine learning algorithms/techniques; quantum cryptographic applications; quantum software; semi-quantum communication applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)

Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles: Development and Challenges

edited by Ronik Ketankumar Patel and Apurva Pamidimukkala

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4219 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous vehicles; artificial intelligence; safety and reliability; technology advancements; regulatory frameworks; infrastructure requirements; economic and societal impacts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)

Novel Advances in High Voltage Insulation

edited by Rahmat Ullah and

David Clark

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3767 | Submission Open

Keywords: condition monitoring; modern insulation system; insulation aging; life expectancy; machine learning in insulation system

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Recent Progress of Information Security and Cryptography

edited by

Juan Antonio López Ramos

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3627 | Submission Open

Keywords: public key cryptography; cryptographic protocols; cryptanalysis; post-quantum cryptography; coded-based cryptography; chaos theory; steganography; lattice-based cryptography; hash-based cryptography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Drugs of Abuse and Beyond

edited by

Alessia Catalano

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3554 | Submission Open

Keywords: drug abuse; pharmacokinetics; toxicity; metabolites

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Advanced Applications of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

edited by

Pedro Miguel Sobral

,

José Manuel Torres

,

Rui S. Moreira

and

Gabriel Villarrubia González

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3548 | Submission Open

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; IoT systems; artificial intelligence computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Advanced Robotics, Mechatronics, and Automation

edited by

Yan Shi

and Shuai Ren

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3540 | Submission Open

Keywords: surgery robotics; rehabilitation medical; advanced intelligent; healthcare application; digital diagnosis and treatment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)

Sustainable Land Management Through Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation Technologies

edited by

Huaizhi Tang

and Yongzhong Tan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3371 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; data assimilation; cultivated land protection; land use; land consolidation; well-facilitated farmland; precision agriculture; cultivated land reserve resources; multispectral imaging; hyperspectral data; satellite data integration; agricultural monitoring; sustainable land management; multisource data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)

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