Scope
Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is an interdisciplinary journal reporting cutting-edge research focused on enhancing the understanding and efficiency of reactions.
Reaction engineering leverages the interface where fundamental molecular chemistry meets chemical engineering and technology. Challenges in chemistry can be overcome by the application of new technologies, while engineers may find improved solutions for process development from the latest developments in reaction chemistry.
Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a unique forum for researchers whose interests span the broad areas of chemical engineering and chemical sciences to come together in solving problems of importance to wider society.
All papers should be written to be approachable by readers across the engineering and chemical sciences. Papers that consider multiple scales, from the laboratory up to and including plant scale, are particularly encouraged.
Key topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Reaction engineering approaches or technologies
- Reaction development & optimisation (including catalysis and catalyst design, mechanistic and kinetic studies, analysis and monitoring, mechanism and kinetics, screening, intensification and scale-up)
- Synthesis technologies (including electrochemistry, photochemistry and mechanochemistry)
Reaction & process engineering (including continuous processes, reactor design, integrated reactors, microfluidics and new reactor concepts)
- Flow chemistry (including organic, inorganic, enzymatic, analytical and process chemistry)
- Digitalisation of chemistry and biochemistry (including analysis and monitoring, automation, visualisation, machine learning, algorithms, high-throughput discovery and cyber-physical systems)
Biochemical engineering (including biocatalysis, enzyme engineering, bioprocessing and chemical biology)
Materials synthesis & processing (including nanomaterials, nanoparticles, polymers, surfaces, interfaces and membranes)
Separations (including reactive extraction/distillation and membrane-based processes)
Biological, chemical, medical, environmental and energy applications
Pharmaceutical and speciality chemical development (including target identification and screening, synthetic route development and process design, intensification and scale-up)
Sustainable chemistry (including platform chemicals from bioresources and waste, alternative solvents, circular economy and efficient processes)
Environment & climate (including clean water, carbon capture, reactive and membrane separations, solar fuels and pollution abatement)