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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  • Sodium-based battery development

    This cross-journal Collection brings together the latest developments in electrodes, electrolytes, and battery components used in aqueous and non-aqueous sodium-based battery applications.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 October 2024
    • Fragments in Drug Discovery

      In this collection, we want to highlight research that focuses on fragments in drug discovery. Have you found validated fragment hits for a new disease target? Maybe they unlocked an unreported enzyme mechanism? Were you able to develop a method that is useful for fragment-based drug discovery? Perhaps you found a hit that made it to clinical trials? We invite all scientists who work with fragments in the context of drug discovery to submit their interesting fragment stories. We look forward to hearing all about them.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 September 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.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 September 2024
        • Self-driving labs and automation software for chemistry and materials science

          This cross-journal collection is dedicated to the development and application of automation tools (software and hardware) for chemistry and materials science, curated by Editors from Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry, Communications Engineering, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 August 2024
          • High-entropy Materials

            This Collection aims to collate original research striving to address challenges related to scalability, processing techniques, atomic-level microstructure analysis, and structure-property relationship in this vibrant field.
            • Prasanna V. Balachandran, PhD
            • Ben Breitung, PhD
            • Varun Chaudhary, PhD
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 June 2024
          • Main group chemistry

            This Main Group Chemistry Collection invites submissions covering fundamental and applied research and welcomes both experimental and theoretical contributions.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 May 2024
            • Protein condensates

              This themed Collection aims to bring together research articles on unravelling the intricate mechanisms and roles of different protein condensates, developing novel tools to characterize their formation and dynamics, and exploring how aberrant condensate formation can impact pathological conditions.
              • Emilio Gutierrez-Beltran, PhD
              • Yanchang Wang, PhD
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 August 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
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 17 May 2024
            • Spin interactions in Chemistry

              In this Collection, we invite original research that deepens the understanding of spin state dynamics and spin effects and harnesses the gained insights to design novel reactions, catalytic processes, and materials with tailored functionalities.
              • Kazuyuki Sakamoto, PhD
              • Jiabao Yi, PhD
              • Lin Zhu, PhD
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 August 2024
            • Nanophotonics-enabled Spectroscopy and Microscopy

              This Collection welcomes original research that reports advances in nanomaterials characterization, heterogeneous catalysis, and biomolecule detection fueled by nanophotonics-enabled spectroscopy and microscopy.
              • Alina Karabchevsky, PhD
              • Wei Wang, PhD
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 July 2024