Sustainable Chemistry for a Net Zero World
A special issue of Chemistry (ISSN 2624-8549). This special issue belongs to the section "Green and Environmental Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: reactor design; separation processes; technology transfer; scale-up; algae produc-tion and downstream processing; membranes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From the advent of the industrial revolution, human activity has significantly affected the environment and is leading to significant climate change. This fact was recognized under the UN Paris agreement (COP21, 2015), which legally binds countries to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Carbon capture for storage applications or for utilization and reuse is a current and immense research area. This Special Issue aims to bring together a collection of exciting new approaches to remedy the problem that have potential for application across the spectrum of industry. We are looking for all novel chemical and biological technologies and approaches, but are particularly keen to receive high-quality papers related to high-TRL-level applications, i.e., those that have been or are close to being tried in industrial settings. We also welcome papers that detail techno-economic assessments and those that include some form of life cycle analysis assessment.
I am pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue ‘Sustainable Chemistry for a Net Zero World’ in the journal Chemistry, for which I serve as Guest Editor. The aim is to bring together an exciting array of new technologies that are in the process of being developed in order to realize the net zero target. We would be delighted to receive your contribution in the form of a short communication, research paper, or potentially a review paper.
Prof. Dr. Darren Oatley-Radcliffe
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- carbon capture
- adsorption
- reuse
- recycling
- storage
- techno-economic assessment
- life cycle analysis
- industrial de-ployment
- climate mitigation
- net zero emissions
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