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6 December 2022
Sustainable Chemistry | Top 10 Cited Papers in 2021


1. “A Review on Battery Market Trends, Second-Life Reuse, and Recycling”
by Yanyan Zhao, Oliver Pohl, Anand I. Bhatt, Gavin E. Collis, Peter J. Mahon, Thomas Rüther and Anthony F. Hollenkamp
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(1), 167-205; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2010011
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/1/167

2. “Continuous Valorization of Glycerol into Solketal: Recent Advances on Catalysts, Processes, and Industrial Perspectives”
by Isabella Corrêa, Rui P. V. Faria and Alírio E. Rodrigues
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(2), 286-324; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2020017
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/2/286

3. “A Review of Enzyme Induced Carbonate Precipitation (EICP): The Role of Enzyme Kinetics”
by Isaac Ahenkorah, Md Mizanur Rahman, Md Rajibul Karim, Simon Beecham and Christopher Saint
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(1), 92-114; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2010007
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/1/92

4. “Enzymatic Methods for the Manipulation and Valorization of Soapstock from Vegetable Oil Refining Processes”
by Beatrice Casali, Elisabetta Brenna, Fabio Parmeggian, Davide Tessaro and Francesca Tentori
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(1), 74-91; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2010006
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/1/74

5. “Synthesis of Biodiesel from Tall Oil Fatty Acids by Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis”
by Gideon Lawer-Yolar, Benjamin Dawson-Andoh and Emmanuel Atta-Obeng
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(1), 206-221; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2010012
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/1/206

6. “Lignocellulosic-Based Sorbents: A Review”
by Kaana Asemave, Ligom Thaddeus and Philip T. Tarhemba
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(2), 271-285; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2020016
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/2/271

7. “Dual UV-Thermal Curing of Biobased Resorcinol Epoxy Resin-Diatomite Composites with Improved Acoustic Performance and Attractive Flame Retardancy Behavior”
by Quoc-Bao Nguyen, Henri Vahabi, Agustín Rios de Anda, Davy-Louis Versace, Valérie Langlois, Camille Perrot, Vu-Hieu Nguyen, Salah Naili and Estelle Renard
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(1), 24-48; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2010003
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/1/24

8. “Unveiling the Influence of Non-Toxic Fluorinated Ionic Liquids Aqueous Solutions in the Encapsulation and Stability of Lysozyme”
by Margarida L. Ferreira, Nicole S. M. Vieira, João M. M. Araújo and Ana B. Pereiro
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(1), 149-166; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2010010
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/1/149

9. “Environmental Contamination and Human Exposure to Select Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Review”
by Seethappan Sangeetha, Krishnamoorthi Vimalkumar and Bommanna G. Loganathan
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(2), 343-380; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2020020
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/2/343

10. “Redox Active Organic-Carbon Composites for Capacitive Electrodes: A Review”
by Jeanne N’Diaye, Raunaq Bagchi, Jane Y. Howe and Keryn Lian
Sustain. Chem. 2021, 2(3), 407-440; https://doi.org/10.3390/suschem2030024
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/2/3/407

21 October 2022
Meet Us at the 17th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT17), 19–22 November 2022, Sanya, China


MDPI will be attending the 17th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT17), held in Sanya, China, from 19 to 22 November 2022. The theme of this year’s conference is “Synergizing the Reduction of Pollution and Carbon Emission”. Throughout the conference, prominent researchers and government officials will give keynote speeches on pressing issues of solid waste management. ICWMT17 provides an excellent opportunity for participants from industry and academia to keep up to date with the latest trends in solid waste management.

During this conference, MDPI will welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest views as well as research with us.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions that you may have.

For more information about the conference, please see the following link: http://www.bcrc.cn/icwmt/.

28 September 2022
Peer Review Week 2022 – Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research

Peer Review Week began 19 September 2022 under the theme of “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research”. Through various blog articles, podcast, and webinar, we discussed this crucial subject throughout the week, celebrating the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research quality.

To begin, we held a Webinar on the topic. Professor Peter W. Choate and Dr. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi joined Dr. Ioana Craciun, one of MDPI’s scientific officers, for an in-depth discussion.

We invite you to view the event recording:

During the week, the MDPI Blog in a series articles highlighted how good Peer Review safeguards research integrity. The following topics were covered:

In a new edition of Insight Faster, an MDPI podcast, we were delighted to talk to the co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee, Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica) to get their take on this year’s event and its related topics.

You can find the Podcast here.

We hope you enjoy the contents!

4 July 2022
Meet Us at the 11th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry, 25–29 July 2022, Harbin, China


A range of MDPI journals will be attending the 11th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Harbin, China, from 25 to 29 July 2022.

The theme of this conference will be “Innovating Environmental Sciences, Low-Carbon Protecting Environment and Health”, which fully reflects the conference’s purpose of innovation, participation, cooperation, and foresight. More than 50 branches have been set up in the fields of interface process, toxicology and health, public health, environmental safety, pollution control, remediation technology, green and low-carbon, and environmental policy, and various well-known experts at home and abroad have been invited to produce conference and branch reports and deliver speeches. We invite experts in the field and environmental protection companies to participate in the exhibition, for which academic activities such as paper exhibitions, postgraduate forums, and Editor-in-Chief meetings have been organized.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference and our booth, please visit the following link: https://www.ncec2021.com/Home/Default.

27 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Young Investigator Awards in “Chemistry & Materials Sciences”—Winners Announced

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2021 in the “Chemistry & Materials Sciences” category. The winners were selected by the journals’ editors.

We warmly congratulate the awarded Young Investigators for their outstanding contributions.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Coatings:

  • Marta Mohedano, Complutense University of Madrid-UCM, Spain

Materials:

  • Edoardo Baldini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Magnetochemistry:

  • Mauro Perfetti, University of Florence, Italy

Membranes:

  • Xu Hou, Xiamen University, China

Molecules:

  • Biplab Maji, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India

Nanomaterials:

  • Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Madrid, Spain
  • Takuya Isono, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • Panbo Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

27 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Awards in “Chemistry & Materials Sciences”—Winners Announced

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize the winners for the year 2021 in the “Chemistry & Materials Sciences” category for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with the Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners on their achievement.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Catalysts:

  • Rahat Javaid, Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, Japan
  • Georgios Bampos, University of Patras, Greece
  • Esmail Doustkhah, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
  • Pawan Kumar, University of Alberta, Canada

Magnetochemistry:

  • Lorenzo Sorace, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

Materials:

  • Khaled Giasin, University of Portsmouth, UK
  • Oldrich Sucharda, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • Danil Pimenov, South Ural State University, Russia
  • Marián Palcut, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Metals:

  • Khaled Giasin, University of Portsmouth, UK
  • Catalin Pruncu, University of Strathclyde, UK
  • Jacek Tomków, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
  • Alexander Yu Churyumov, National University of Science and Technology (MISiS), Russia
  • Hesam Pouraliakbar, Chungnam National University, South Korea

Nanomaterials:

  • George Kenanakis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece
  • Goshtasp Cheraghian, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
  • Oana Cadar, Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, Romania

Polymers:

  • Sawsan A. Zaitone, Suez Canal University, Saudi Arabia
  • Lucia Baldino, University of Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano (SA) Italy
  • Gyorgy Szekely, University of Manchester, UK
  • Bin Jiang, Northeast Agricultural University, China
  • Haibao Lu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

 

27 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Best Paper Awards in “Chemistry & Materials Sciences”—Winners Announced

The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on criteria such as the scientific merit, overall impact, and the quality of presentation of the papers published in the journal last year.

We are honored to present the winners in the “Chemistry & Materials Sciences” category, who were selected amongst the extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

C — Journal of Carbon Research

Catalysts:

Ceramics:

Coatings:

Crystals:

Magnetochemistry:

Membranes:

Nanomaterials:

Polymers:

27 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in “Chemistry & Materials Sciences—Winners Announced

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in the “Chemistry & Materials Sciences” category for their outstanding presentations.

MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage talented junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of Travel Awards for the year 2021 and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors.

MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Crystals:

  • Gaojun Mao, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
  • Lidia Bofill Herrera, University of Barcelona, Spain

Gels:

  • Demetra Giuri, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Martina Genta, Imperial College London, UK

Journal of Functional Biomaterials:

  • Anushree Seth, Washington University, USA

Magnetochemistry:

  • Fabio Ferreira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • Giulia Serrano, University of Florence, Italy

Materials

  • Giulia Fredi, University of Trento, Italy
  • Mattia Biesuz, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic

Metals:

  • Adriana Eres-Castellanos, Spanish National Center for Metallurgical Research, Spain
  • Pavel Shurkin, National University of Science and Technology, Russia

Nanomaterials:

  • Aleksandrs Leitis, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, France
  • Ekaterina Kolesova, ITMO, Russia

Separations:

  • Christoph Gstoettner, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands

9 June 2022
2021 CiteScores - Released


The 2021 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus!

We are pleased to announce that 182 MDPI journals are included, of which:

● 21 journals received their first CiteScore.
● 85% of journals increased their CiteScore from 2020.
● 155 journals (85%) ranked above average, in at least one category.

The following 65 MDPI journals (36%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category:

Journal

CiteScore

Quartile

Category

Non-coding RNA

10.1

Q1

Genetics

Journal of Functional Biomaterials

10.0

Q1

Biomedical Engineering

Marine Drugs

8.1

Q1

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)

Batteries

7.9

Q1

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Nutrients

7.9

Q1

Nutrition and Dietetics

Remote Sensing

7.4

Q1

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Drones

7.2

Q1

Computer Science Applications

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

6.9

Q1

Inorganic Chemistry

Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks

6.9

Q1

Computer Networks and Communications

Cells

6.7

Q1

General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Nanomaterials

6.6

Q1

General Chemical Engineering

Toxins

6.6

Q1

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Viruses

6.6

Q1

Infectious Diseases

Antioxidants

6.5

Q1

Food Science

Fibers

6.5

Q1

Civil and Structural Engineering

Resources

6.4

Q1

Nature and Landscape Conservation

Sensors

6.4

Q1

Instrumentation

Big Data and Cognitive Computing

6.1

Q1

Management Information Systems

Molecules

5.9

Q1

Chemistry (miscellaneous)

Polymers

5.7

Q1

Polymers and Plastics

Biosensors

5.6

Q1

Engineering (miscellaneous)

Catalysts

5.5

Q1

General Environmental Science

Smart Cities

5.5

Q1

Urban Studies

Future Internet

5.4

Q2

Computer Networks and Communications

Beverages

5.3

Q1

Food Science

Fermentation

5.3

Q1

Plant Science

Environments

5.2

Q1

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Inventions

5.2

Q1

General Engineering

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

5.1

Q1

Development

Colloids and Interfaces

5.0

Q1

Chemistry (miscellaneous)

Energies

5.0

Q1

Control and Optimization

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

5.0

Q1

Geography, Planning and Development

Sustainability

5.0

Q1

Geography, Planning and Development

Fire

4.9

Q1

Forestry

Robotics

4.9

Q1

Control and Optimization

Soil Systems

4.9

Q1

Soil Science

Geosciences

4.8

Q1

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing

4.8

Q1

Mechanical Engineering

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

4.8

Q1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Water

4.8

Q1

Geography, Planning and Development

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

4.5

Q1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Sports

4.5

Q1

Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

Entropy

4.4

Q1

Mathematical Physics

Journal of Clinical Medicine

4.4

Q1

General Medicine

Symmetry

4.3

Q1

General Mathematics

Cosmetics

4.2

Q1

Surgery

Foods

4.1

Q1

Health Professions (miscellaneous)

Journal of Fungi

4.1

Q1

Plant Science

ChemEngineering

4.0

Q1

General Engineering

Forests

4.0

Q1

Forestry

Journal of Intelligence

4.0

Q1

Education

Antibiotics

3.9

Q1

General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

Cryptography

3.9

Q1

Applied Mathematics

Behavioral Sciences

3.8

Q1

Development

Buildings

3.8

Q1

Architecture

Metals

3.8

Q1

Metals and Alloys

Publications

3.5

Q1

Communication

Social Sciences

3.4

Q1

General Social Sciences

Mathematics

2.9

Q1

General Mathematics

Fractal and Fractional

2.8

Q1

Analysis

Animals

2.7

Q1

General Veterinary

Axioms

2.6

Q1

Algebra and Number Theory

Heritage

1.8

Q1

Conservation

Religions

1.0

Q1

Religious Studies

Philosophies

0.9

Q1

Philosophy

Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)

23 December 2021
A Letter from the Editorial Board of Sustainable Chemistry to Scholars in the Heterogeneous Catalysis Field

The use of heterogeneous catalysis as an enabling technology in the application of environmental and sustainable chemistry is a mature, yet constantly growing field.

Since the 1990s, the applications of environmental catalysis have included the development and refinement of three-way catalysts and lean NOx treatment systems, catalytic combustion of pollutants and fuels, and catalytic and photocatalytic remediation of polluted aqueous systems. Current and future pollutants of interest that will require catalytic remediation will include aqueous microplastics, fluorinated alkyl compounds and recalcitrant organic molecules.

Current and future applications of sustainable catalysis that will enable the circular economy will arise in the development of artificial photosynthesis systems for CO2 recycling and valorisation; the generation of solar fuels and chemicals; sustainable hydrogen and platform molecule synthesis; catalytic processing of plastic waste, catalytic systems for facilitating the use of thermochemical heat pumps and renewable energy storage systems; catalytic approaches to lignocellulose-containing biomass and organic waste refining in biorefinery installations, catalytic approaches to metal and urban waste recycling and materials for promotion of chemical looping combustion and CO2 separation processes.

Furthermore, as one of the tenets of Green Chemistry, the use of catalysts in promoting safer, more environmentally acceptable and sustainable chemical syntheses will continue to be an area of importance. This will include the development of catalysts to allow the use of non-toxic reagents, decrease required energy inputs (or permit solar powered photocatalysts), allow the use of benign solvents, and drive enantioselective reactions.

All of these areas will be accompanied by the gradual replacement of critical element-containing catalysts by more earth-abundant analogs.

Sustainable Chemistry (ISSN 2673-4079) released its inaugural issue in June 2020 and aims to provide a professional publishing service to the scientific community, striving for the effective dissemination of high-quality scientific work. On behalf of the Editorial Board, we welcome scholars whose research focuses on the use of heterogeneous catalysis in environmental and sustainable chemistry to propose ideas on publishing cooperation, e.g. publication, themed Special Issues, academic conferences, etc., to Sustainable Chemistry Editorial Office, suschem@mdpi.com.

Prof. James Sullivan
Editorial Board Member
School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

Prof. Dr. Matthew Jones
Editor-in-Chief
Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK

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