Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology
A section of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Section Information
It has now been just over 30 years since the publication of the Brundtland Commission’s report “Our Common Future”, which came to define the concept of sustainable development for society in general, and just over 20 years since the publication of Anastas’ and Warner’s seminal book “Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice”. Since then, green chemistry has become synonymous with the chemistry of sustainability, and one of the areas where industry has embraced the opportunities offered by innovative R&D to create new processes and materials in service of sustainability, many of which are nowadays practiced by manufacturers and commercially available in the form of all kinds of sustainable products.
With this in mind, it should not be surprising that the very first issue of Sustainability contained its first paper on green chemistry, “On the Way to Improve the Environmental Benignity of Chemical Processes: Novel Catalysts for a Polymerization Process” by Kuhn et al. From this paper, which one would probably classify as a “classical” green chemistry topic, the range of subjects covered by articles in this section has expanded greatly, and now ranges from novel green reagents and reactions to sustainable feedstocks as well as processes and management of the environmental consequences of making and using chemicals. For a comprehensive overview of the range and depth of this topic, I invite all readers and potential authors to consult the list of current open Special Issues sponsored by this section.
As Editor-in-Chief of the Sustainable Chemistry Section, I am pleased to invite the submission of communications, articles, and reviews on any of these topics. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary papers and those exploring new areas on the cutting edge of the field.
Dr. Derek J. McPhee
Section Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Board
Topic Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Chemical Pollution, Prevention, and Environmental Sustainability (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Garbage of Urban Life, Sustainable Processes to Treat and Recover Wastewater (Deadline: 19 September 2021)
- Water-Food-Energy Nexus for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Sustainable Cosmetic Science and Technology (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Sustainable and Clean Chemical Engineering Technologies (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Emerging Photovoltaic Materials for High-Performance and High-Stable Photovoltaic Applications (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Next Generation Energy Storage – A Key to Environmental Sustainability (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Biochar Stability and Long-Term Carbon Storage (Deadline: 15 October 2021)
- Sustainability in Food Production and Processing (Deadline: 30 October 2021)
- Sustainable Materials and Processes for Organic Electronics (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Modern Tools and Techniques for Green Synthesis (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Alternative Fuels and Platform Chemicals Obtained from the Sustainable Valorization of Residues through Thermochemical Processes (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Assessment of Industrial and Man-Made Hazards Due to Chemicals (Deadline: 15 November 2021)
- Sustainable and Advanced Remanufacturing Processes (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Advances in Extraction, Derivatization and Applications of Natural Products: Perspectives for Sustainability (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Emerging Photoactive Molecule/Polymer for Water Treatment or Degradation of Pollutants (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Environmental Engineering of Biopolymers from Renewable Resources (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Design, Synthesis of Polymers-based Hybrid Materials for Biosensing and Building Stimuli-Responsive Architectures (Deadline: 12 December 2021)
- Processes for Manufacturing Biodegradable Particles for Energy, Environmental and Health Applications (Deadline: 30 December 2021)
- New Trends in Ionic Liquids (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Design, Processing, and Characterization of Functional, Smart and Sustainable Materials: Recent Advances (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Green Chemistry & Engineering for a Benign by Design Society (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Marine Environmental Research on Protists in the Bioeconomy Innovations (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainability in Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Current Advances in Microalgal Biotechnology (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainable Development of Wood Chemistry (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Cultivation of Microalgae and Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainable Chemistry in Construction (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Solid Waste Management: An International Outlook (Deadline: 20 January 2022)
- Toxicity Assessment and Remediation of Industrial Wastewater (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Advances in Functional Nanocomposites for Environmental Applications (Deadline: 25 February 2022)
- Sustainable Dewatering and Tailing Disposal in Mineral Industry (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Green Chemistry and Biofinery Concepts on Biomass Valorisation (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Sustainable Management of Macro and Micronutrients through Biofertilizers for Better Crop Growth and Productivity: Biofertilizers based Symbiosis and Organic Amendments (Deadline: 30 March 2022)
- Hydrogels for Advanced Applications: Biosensing, Bioenergy, Biomedical (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- New Advanced Techniques for Assessing Soil Chemistry (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Diffuse Contamination of the Environment — From Heavy Metals to Microplastics (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Environmental Pollution and Management; Analytical Challenges, Remediation Strategies, Opportunities and Sustainability (Deadline: 30 April 2022)
- Green Engineering, Green Chemistry and Circular Economy: Principles, Research Areas and Challenges. Towards a Holistic View of Sustainability (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Fermentation and Wine Production (Deadline: 31 July 2022)
- Metallurgical Solid Wastes Treatment and Utilization (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: