Announcements

We are pleased to announce that we will present Catalysts at the International Congress on Catalysis (ICC 16) together with four other journals: Applied Sciences, Energies, Molecules and Materials. If you are at this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth 44) to meet our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Keith Hohn, and other representatives from Catalysts.

The International Congress on Catalysis (ICC 16)
July 3–8, 2016 
Beijing, China

The ICC 16, with the theme of Catalysis for the Sustainable Development of the World, will feature the crucial roles of catalysis science and technology in improving the efficiencies of energy production and utilization of fossil resources, developing renewable energy, and abating/eliminating pollutants emission to the environment. The congress will serve as a platform to exchange new ideas and discuss advances in all areas of catalysis.

http://www.icc2016china.com/en/

We are pleased to announce that the following institutions have joined MDPI's institutional membership program in April and May 2016:

• KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• South China University of Technology, China
• Beijing University of Technology, China
• Southern Medical University, China

Authors affiliated with these institutions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.

Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.

We are pleased to announce that the following papers were selected as the first Prize of /Catalysts/ Best Paper Award 2016:

Toni Riittonen, Esa Toukoniitty, Dipak Kumar Madnani, Anne-Riikka Leino, Krisztian Kordas, Maria Szabo, Andras Sapi, Kalle Arve, Johan Wärnå and Jyri-Pekka Mikkola
(Article) One-Pot Liquid-Phase Catalytic Conversion of Ethanol to 1-Butanol over Aluminium Oxide—The Effect of the Active Metal on the Selectivity. Catalysts 2012, 2, 68–84.
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/2/1/68/pdf

and

Manoj A. Lazar, Shaji Varghese and Santhosh S. Nair
(Review) Photocatalytic Water Treatment by Titanium Dioxide: Recent Updates. Catalysts 2012, 2, 572–601.
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/2/4/572/pdf

We believe the above papers represent valuable contribution to /Catalysts/ and the scientific literature and warmly congratulate Dr. Toni Riittonen and Dr. Manoj A. Lazar and their groups. In recognition of their accomplishment, each of them have the chance to publish a paper (either a review paper or a research article), free of charge in /Catalysts/, after the peer-review procedure and the certificate.

You may have noticed a new section that is now visible on our home page. This section is called "Latest Books" and showcases recent publications from MDPI Books, our book publishing service.

By clicking on the hyperlink "More Books" you will be taken to the MDPI Books Home Page. There you will find more information about the service, as well as the "Recent Publications" list. 

Clicking on any of the book images in this list will take you to detailed information about that book (shown below). Here you can also download a PDF version of the book, or order a hardcover printed copy.

For further information about the MDPI Books service, please visit the webpage or contact books@mdpi.com.

We are pleased to announce that the journals Axioms, Behavioral Sciences, Photonics, Separations and Toxics were recently accepted for inclusion in the newly launched Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in Web of Science.

ESCI serves to highlight promising journals which are still under consideration for the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) or the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).

The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index
(SSCI), and Web of Science™ (WoS) are Thomson Reuters products.

We are pleased to announce that the University of Winchester, UK, the Silesian University of Technology, Poland and Beijing Jiaotong University and Zhejiang University, China, have joined our Institutional Membership program. Primary authors from these universities will benefit from a 10% discount on article processing charges.

Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.

We are excited to announce the opening of our new editorial office in Barcelona, Spain. The launch team is led by a Senior Editor and comprises further staff holding doctoral degrees with several years of research experience. The new editorial team will help us to get closer to European research communities and progress Sciforum, the platform to support the scientific community via conference hosting and other functions. They will also help spread the word about Open Access and meet academics at scientific events.

We are in the process of hiring more doctoral and masters graduates to join the editorial team and welcome applications via jobs@mdpi.com. For contact details about the office, see our contact page.

We are pleased to announce that the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has signed an agreement with MDPI to support authors associated with the Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft). As of 22 February 2016, corresponding authors will receive full funding from the MPDL for articles published in MDPI journals, with a 10% discount applied to the Article Processing Charges. Additional details can be found at our institutional membership page.

Founded in 1948, The Max Planck Society is one of Germany’s leading research organizations, and is currently made up of 83 institutes conducting basic research in natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences and humanities. 18 Nobel laureates have emerged from its ranks of scientists and the society has more than 15,000 publications in scientific journals each year.

Catalysts has a brand new Twitter page – take a look https://twitter.com/Catalysts_MDPI!

We want to provide good service for scientists to investigate their research and enhance scientific communication so we will be posting news about our hot articles, free article collections and job vacancy information. We invite you to discuss current topics in catalysis and post your news too.

We are pleased to announce that Wageningen University, the Netherlands, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain, the University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and the University of Tübingen and Osnabrück University, Germany, have not only renewed their institutional memberships with MDPI after two years of successful cooperation, but have also increased the reduction of the article processing charges (APCs) for affiliated authors to 25%.

Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.