Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our calls for papers, for our upcoming Guest Edited Collections. For enquiries, please contact scirep.collection@springernature.com.

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  • Air Pollution Policy and Governance

    In this cross-journal collection, we invite contributions that assess the effectiveness of local, regional, and global air pollution policies and actions, and we also welcome studies that address national and international air pollution governance and cooperation.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 June 2025
    • Metal-organic frameworks for photocatalysis

      This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports brings together the latest advances in using metal–organic frameworks as photocatalysts for broad applications such as, and not limited to, chemical synthesis, water splitting, and pollutant degradation.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 November 2024
      • Tandem Perovskite Photovoltaics

        This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Materials, Communications Physics and Scientific Reports brings together the latest research and development in perovskite-based tandem solar cells.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 October 2024
        • Advances in catalytic hydrogen evolution

          This collection encourages submissions related to hydrogen evolution catalysis, particularly where hydrogen gas is the primary product. This is a cross-journal partnership between the Energy Materials team at Nature Communications with Communications Chemistry, Communications Engineering, Communications Materials, and Scientific Reports. We seek studies covering a range of perspectives including materials design & development, catalytic performance, or underlying mechanistic understanding. Other works focused on potential applications and large-scale demonstration of hydrogen evolution are also welcome.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 September 2024
          • Dielectric materials for energy storage applications

            The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Materials, and Scientific Reports invite original research articles about dielectric materials for energy storage applications.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 July 2024
            • Research to address the global sanitation crisis

              This collection welcomes submissions of articles that can help further our understanding and/or offer solutions to address the global sanitation crisis.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 June 2024
              • Water splitting

                The papers featured in this Collection will showcase advances in the methods and technologies of hydrogen production through electrocatalysis and photocatalysis of water and related strategies.
                • Xiaobo Chen, PhD
                • Ho Won Jang, PhD
                • Carlos Alberto Martínez-Huitle, PhD
                • Rita Mazzoni, PhD
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 17 August 2024
              • Biotechnology for a circular economy

                This collection welcomes research in, but not limited to carbon assimilation, biomanufacturing, waste management, and bioenergy. We are also interested in computational methodology development related to all of the above fields.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 August 2024