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ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering welcomes contributions that address challenges of sustainability in the chemical enterprise and advance principles of Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. Examples of topics in the journal's scope include:

• Green Chemistry
• Green Manufacturing and Engineering
• Biomass or Wastes as Resources
• Alternative Energy
• Life-Cycle Assessment

Potential authors are encouraged to read Editorial articles like these for additional guidance on scope:

• Why Wasn't My ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Manuscript Sent Out for Review?
• The Evolution of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• Expectations for Manuscripts in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Scope Summary and Call for Creativity
• Expectations for Papers on Photochemistry, Photoelectrochemistry, and Electrochemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage
• Expectations for Papers on Sustainable Materials
• Expectations for Manuscripts on Catalysis
• Expectations for Manuscripts with Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Elements
• Advancing the Use of Sustainability Metrics
• Expectations for Manuscripts on Industrial Ecology
• Expectations for Manuscripts on Biomass Feedstocks and Processing in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• Expectations for Manuscripts Contributing to the Field of Solvents

Chemical research focused on precision enables more controllable, predictable, and accurate outcomes, which in turn drive innovation in measurement science, sustainable materials, information materials, personalized medicines, energy, environmental science, and countless other fields requiring chemical insights.

Precision Chemistry is an open access journal that provides a unique and highly focused publishing venue for fundamental, applied, and interdisciplinary research aiming to achieve precision calculation, design, synthesis, manipulation, measurement, and manufacturing. It is committed to bringing together researchers from across the chemical sciences and the related scientific areas, to showcase original research and critical reviews of exceptional quality, significance, and interest to the broad chemistry and scientific community.

Specific topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Precision and controllable chemical synthesis with high selectivity and efficiency
• Molecular engineering for highly-complex, multifunctional molecular systems (molecular machines and devices etc.)
• Controllable self-assembly strategy with precisely defined structures and dimensions
• Precision macromolecular and supramolecular systems
• Precision nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing
• Function-oriented design and fabrication of materials
• Tunable catalysis with high efficiency
• Precision sensing, imaging and characterization of molecules and chemical reactions
• Theoretical studies with high accuracy and computational efficiency (atomistic simulations of chemical, biological and materials systems)
• Precision Chemistry in life science and medicine (genome editing, protein and enzyme engineering, molecular diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, etc.)
• Precision Chemistry in energy and environmental science (energy conversion, energy storage, water resources, environmental remediation, carbon neutrality, etc.)

APCs are automatically waived for all articles submitted by December 31, 2025, if they are accepted after peer review.

ACS Nanoscience Au is an open access journal publishing original, fundamental, and applied research on nanoscience and nanotechnology research at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, medicine, materials science, physics, and engineering. ACS Nanoscience Au also publishes original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrates knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important applications of nanomaterials. Topics include:

• Synthesis, assembly, characterization, theory, modeling, and simulation of nanostructures, nanomaterials, and nanoscale devices
• Design, fabrication, and applications of organic, inorganic, polymer, hybrid, and biological nanostructures
• Experimental and theoretical studies of nanoscale chemical, physical, and biological phenomena
• Methods and tools for nanoscience and nanotechnology
• Self- and directed-assembly
• Zero-, one-, and two-dimensional materials
• Nanostructures and nano-engineered devices with advanced performance
• Nanobiotechnology
• Nanomedicine and nanotoxicology
• Nano energy

While safety permeates all ACS journals, it benefits from its preeminence in ACS Chemical Health & Safety where its authors influence chemical safety and guide tomorrow’s science. Chemical safety research can be transformational and innovative, and it can also focus on practice and be narrowly scoped. This includes foundational datasets or variations on well-studied themes because they hold value to those working with hazardous materials. ACS Chemical Health & Safety provides the opportunity to publish across all these areas. As a discipline, chemical health and safety does not limit itself to laboratories and chemical facilities, and our authors are more than just chemists and chemical engineers; they are scientists with broad research backgrounds and members of the public from many disciplines, including environmental safety and health professionals, industrial hygienists, public health professionals, safety policy makers, human factors specialists, and more. 

Refer to Author Guidelines for detailed topic lists. Sample topics that span the journal's scope include:

• Fundamental chemical safety research and datasets
• Chemical health safety and security warnings
• Chemical risk assessment and management for all settings (e.g., laboratory, industrial, educational, public spaces, etc.)
• Other topics that influence chemical safety and guide tomorrow’s science (e.g., occupational safety, regulatory, emergency response, training/education, etc.)

Manuscripts relating to commercial products are welcome, provided that they are not advertisements. 

Topics that address new medical approaches (e.g., those utilizing nano materials to deliver targeted drug therapies) and environmental contaminates will be considered but are not regularly accepted for peer review because we believe the topics could be better served by the journals that specialize in those fields.

All manuscripts are subject to critical, anonymous peer review. The final decision relating to a manuscript’s suitability for the journal rests solely with the Editor.

ACS Chemical Neuroscience publishes high-quality research articles and reviews that showcase chemical, quantitative biological, biophysical and bioengineering approaches to the understanding of the nervous system and to the development of new treatments for neurological disorders. Research in the journal focuses on aspects of chemical neurobiology and bio-neurochemistry such as the following:

• Neurotransmitters and receptors
• Neuropharmaceuticals and therapeutics
• Neural development—Plasticity, and degeneration
• Chemical, physical, and computational methods in neuroscience
• Neuronal diseases—basis, detection, and treatment
• Mechanism of aging, learning, memory, and behavior
• Pain and sensory processing
• Neurotoxins
• Neuroscience-inspired bioengineering
• Development of methods in chemical neurobiology
• Neuroimaging agents and technologies
• Animal models for central nervous system diseases
• Behavioral research

Research articles reporting the identification of general principles that govern how information is processed by neuronal circuits; or using genetic model systems in conjunction with computational biology, imaging, electrophysiological, and computational neuroscience (neuroinformatics) are also welcomed.

Chemical Reviews publishes comprehensive, authoritative, critical, and readable reviews of important recent research across all areas of chemistry.

Reviews are only considered for publication by invitation, but prospective authors are encouraged to submit a Proposal which, if accepted, will result in an invitation to submit a full Review. The journal considers submissions in core fields such as, but not limited to:

• Analytical, physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry
• Biological and medicinal chemistry, and biotechnology
• Sustainable and environmental chemistry
• Computational and theoretical chemistry
• Materials and nanoscience
• Energy and catalysis
• Chemical engineering
• Earth, atmospheric and space chemistry

Chemical education

ACS Food Science & Technology is an international forum for cutting-edge original research in all areas of food science, technology, engineering, and nutrition.

This interdisciplinary journal is focused on reports of new research related to characterization, development, processing, and safety of foods, as well as food waste and byproducts as sources of food additives. The journal encourages submissions across all areas of fundamental and applied research in food sciences, with a special emphasis on topics including, but not limited to, areas of:

• Food security: Food science and microbiology; food toxicology and chemical food safety; nutrition; novel foods.
• Food preservation: Food quality and authenticity/origin; food engineering; food processing and packaging; nanotechnology and materials science in food.
• Health-promoting food ingredients: Functional foods; bioavailability and microbiome.

ACS Environmental Au is an open access journal publishing experimental research and theoretical results in all aspects of environmental science and technology, both fundamental and applied. Topics include:

• Alternative energy
• Anthropogenic impacts on atmosphere, soil, or water
• Biogeochemical cycling
• Biomass or wastes as resources
• Contaminants in aquatic and terrestrial environments
• Environmental applications and implications of synthetic biology
• Environmental data science
• Environmental justice and equality
• Ecotoxicology and public health
• Energy and climate
• Environmental modeling, processes, and measurement methods and technologies
• Environmental nanotechnology and biotechnology
• Green chemistry
• Green manufacturing and engineering
• Risk assessment, regulatory frameworks, and life-cycle assessments
• Systems engineering and quantitative sustainability
• Treatment and resource recovery and waste management

ACS Applied Engineering Materials is an international and interdisciplinary forum devoted to original research covering all aspects of engineered materials, complementing the ACS Applied Materials portfolio. Papers that describe theory, simulation, modeling, or machine learning assisted design of materials and that provide new insights into engineering applications are welcomed.

The scope of ACS Applied Engineering Materials includes high quality research of an applied nature that integrates knowledge in materials science, engineering, physics, mechanics, and chemistry. 

Examples of materials and applications that fit the scope of the journal include:

Materials

• Adaptive and reconfigurable materials
• Bioinspired materials
• Biomaterials
• Carbon and 2D materials
• Ceramics and composites
• Foams and emulsions
• Intermetallics
• Membranes
• Metals, liquid metals, and alloys
• Polymers and plastics
• Porous materials
• Smart and stimuli responsive materials
• Structural and high strength materials
• Textiles and fibers

Applications

• 3D printing and additive manufacturing
• Adhesion or adhesion prevention
• Anti-corrosion
• Bioengineering
• Biotechnology and healthcare
• Catalysis
• Environmental remediation and protection
• Friction, wear, and lubrication
• Materials designed for a circular economy
• Materials for use in extreme environments
• Packaging
• Scaffolds
• Separations
• Structural materials

The conversion of solar energy into fuels and valuable chemical products through artificial photosynthesis is an important scientific approach to addressing global energy transition, climate change mitigation and sustainability goals.

Artificial Photosynthesis is an open access journal dedicated to publishing compelling advances in understanding, mimicking, and utilizing the process of converting sunlight into chemical energy. The journal provides a unique, international platform to bring together leading researchers from different disciplines (chemistry, physics, materials, biology, and engineering) and facilitate collaboration with industry to publish the most impactful and insightful developments within the field. 

Specific topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• New theories, methods, and strategies for photoelectrochemical energy conversion and storage, and their charge and energy transfer dynamics and mechanisms
• Photocatalytic, photoelectrocatalytic, and electrocatalytic water splitting, carbon dioxide reduction, nitrogen reduction for ammonia synthesis, and synthesis of high value-added chemicals
• Catalytic activation and transformation of small molecules (e.g., CO₂, H₂O, and N₂, etc.)
• Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis for artificial photosynthesis
• Synthetic fuels, biology, food (e.g., starch, proteins, carbohydrates, etc.), and drugs through artificial photosynthesis
• Function mimicking of natural photosynthesis and its applications in artificial photosynthesis
• Advanced characterization techniques (e.g., spectroscopy) used in artificial photosynthesis research
• Artificial photosynthesis for environmental remediation
• Key engineering technologies for large-scale artificial photosynthesis 

APCs for manuscripts accepted in the first three years are covered by the journal.

ACS ES&T Water is a high-quality specialist journal dedicated to water research and policy. This international, multidisciplinary journal publishes novel, high-impact, peer-reviewed research on all aspects of water quality, chemistry, treatment, protection, and sustainable use/reuse and supply. The Journal considers both marine and freshwater environments as well as water utilized for industrial and municipal applications. ACS ES&T Water's multi-disciplinary research focus also welcomes other water-related research fields. Manuscripts describing public policy and the underlying science utilized for decision making are also encouraged. Specific topics of interest may include (but are not limited to) the following areas:

• Water quality and the transformation, transport, and behavior of contaminants in aquatic environments (groundwater, surface water, snow/ice, precipitation, and marine water) and engineered systems
• Water/wastewater treatment and innovative technologies, including biological, physical, chemical, and natural processes
• Sustainable water supply, reuse, and integrated water resource management
• Industrial water systems and process water treatment
• Marine, estuarine, and freshwater biogeochemistry and ecology
• Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on water sustainability
• Remediation and restoration of natural aquatic systems
• Innovative technologies for water quality monitoring and spatial vulnerability assessments
• Modelling groundwater, surface water and marine flow and contaminant fate and transport
• Spatial data on global and local water supply and water quality monitoring data trends.
• Water quality impacts on human and environmental health, including pathogen, chemical, and physical stressors
• Risk assessment and regulatory frameworks
• Life-cycle assessments and economic impact calculations, and social science implications

ACS Central Science publishes the most compelling, important primary reports on research in chemistry and in allied fields, wherein chemical approaches play a key role. It is also the first fully open access journal published by the American Chemical Society. 

The term "central science" is frequently used to describe chemistry's focal role in bridging the physical and life sciences, and the basic sciences with applied disciplines such as medicine and engineering.

ACS Central Science is a multi- and inter-disciplinary journal that publishes articles of exceptional quality and interest to the broad chemistry and scientific community. The journal addresses important advances in fundamental areas of chemistry, as well as applied and interdisciplinary research highlighting the seminal role of chemistry in a wide range of other scientific disciplines. The journal considers submissions in core fields such as, but not limited to:

• Analytical, physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry
• Biological and medicinal chemistry, and biotechnology
• Sustainable and environmental chemistry
• Computational and theoretical chemistry
• Materials and nanoscience
• Energy and catalysis
• Chemical engineering
• Earth, atmospheric and space chemistry
• Chemical education

The journal also publishes inter- and multidisciplinary research applicable to allied fields across the physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, medicine, and beyond. 

Energy & Fuels, founded in 1987, aspires to publish the most exciting fundamental and applied research in the fields of energy and fuels. The journal focuses on the science and application domains of energy and fuels, particularly those in the disciplines of chemical engineering and applied chemistry. It intends to serve the vital and growing community of scientists, engineers, and policy experts involved in energy-related fields by publishing fully vetted, reliable, and high-quality research results.

The scope of Energy & Fuels covers:

• Fossil energy resources in the context of sustainable development
• Bioenergy, biofuels and biorefinery
• Batteries and energy storage
• Fuel cells
• Solar energy, solar fuels, and conversion of light
• Water splitting and electrolysis
• Non-carbon-based fuels (e.g., hydrogen, ammonia, etc.)
• Carbon capture, utilization, and storage

The submissions on catalysis (including bio-, photo- and electro-catalysis) must focus on new insights for energy conversion and not solely on catalyst characterization. Manuscripts on analytical and instrumental techniques used in investigations of the foregoing areas are also welcome. The analysis of the physical and chemical properties of raw fuels and refined products by novel methods is within the scope. Submitted manuscripts are expected to contain new fundamental knowledge and/or present advances in technologies. Manuscripts on process development, integration and modelling are welcome if they include sound physical-chemical fundamentals. Submissions dealing with nuclear, wind and hydraulic power, power grids, or solely with process economics will not be considered.

ACS Chemical Biology provides an international forum for the rapid communication of research that broadly embraces the interface between chemistry and biology.

The journal also serves as a forum to facilitate the communication between biologists and chemists that will translate into new research opportunities and discoveries. Results will be published in which molecular reasoning has been used to probe questions through in vitro investigations, cell biological methods, or organismic studies.

We welcome mechanistic studies on proteins, nucleic acids, sugars, lipids, and nonbiological polymers. The journal serves a large scientific community, exploring cellular function from both chemical and biological perspectives. It is understood that submitted work is based upon original results and has not been published previously.

Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise, and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and in allied fields in which chemical approaches play a key role. Each Account focuses on research from the author’s own laboratory, and they are designed to teach the reader about a research project. 

Each Account can be thought of as a “seminar in print,” as the authors tell the research story of their lab and give readers insight into both the science itself as well as the people behind it.

Accounts are only considered for publication by invitation, but prospective authors are encouraged to submit a Proposal which, if accepted, will result in an invitation to submit a full Account. The journal considers submissions in core fields such as, but not limited to:

• Analytical, physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry
• Biological and medicinal chemistry, and biotechnology
• Sustainable and environmental chemistry
• Computational and theoretical chemistry
• Materials and nanoscience
• Energy and catalysis
• Chemical engineering
• Earth, atmospheric and space chemistry
• Chemical education

Chemistry of Materials is a biweekly hybrid journal devoted to the publication of original contributions on forefront, fundamental research at the interface of chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science. Both theoretical and experimental studies which focus on preparation or understanding of materials with unusual or useful properties are relevant. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Solid-state chemistry, organic, inorganic and polymer chemistry directed to developing materials with novel optical, electrical, magnetic, catalytic, and mechanical properties, among others
• Fabrication and processing of electronic, magnetic, or optical materials and devices, including thin films by chemical vapor or solution deposition
• Design, synthesis, investigation and application of polymeric and molecular precursors to solid-state inorganic materials
• Preparation and study of biomaterials, nanomaterials, composites, catalysts, liquid crystals, coatings, thin films, interfaces, and self-organized molecular assemblies
• Materials for sustainability, energy, environmental, and biomedical applications

Langmuir focuses on the science and engineering of systems and materials in which the interface dominates structure and function. Manuscript submissions on the rational design of interfaces, including new applied and fundamental concepts in emerging areas, are welcome.

The following topics are examples within the scope of Langmuir:

• Polymer interfaces and films
• Adsorption, wetting, adhesion, and dynamics
• Membranes and biofouling
• Surfactants, emulsions, microemulsions, vesicles, suspensions, foams, and gels
• Fundamental theory and computations of interfacial properties
• Droplets and their dynamics
• Active and adaptive colloids and nanoparticles, self-assembly
• Drug delivery, nanomedicine, carriers, targeting, uptake and controlled release
• Advances in surface/interface characterization techniques
• MOFs, COFs, zeolites, and other porous materials
• Sensors and biosensors
• Rheology, mechanics, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics
• Van der Waals materials (1D, 2D, 3D and layered)
• Interfaces for sustainability and energy
• Electrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis
• Single molecule, single atom catalysts and particle dynamics under confinement

Reviewers of Langmuir manuscripts will be asked the following questions.

• Does the manuscript report original and significant findings in interface science and engineering?
• Are the claims adequately supported with appropriate data, control experiments, and statistics?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the work?

ACS Sustainable Resource Management is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research describing the science and practice in the sustainable use of natural and waste resources. The journal seeks to report advances, promote discussion among various stakeholders including academic scientists, industrial practitioners and government agencies and regulators, that together help in the implementation of strategies to achieve the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals. 

Submissions covering fundamental and applied research in science and engineering of the circularity of effluent streams (gaseous, liquid, or solid forms) through the conversion to useful compounds or feedstocks are welcome. Discussions integrating systems thinking, planetary boundaries and metrics-based approaches are encouraged to ensure that the envisioned circular approaches are indeed sustainable in terms of reducing environmental footprint and toxicity. Examples of resources and applications/processes/methods that fit the scope include:

Resources

• Activated sludges
• Agriculture, aquatic & marine ecologies, forest residues (biomass, pesticides, fertilizers, nutrients, etc.)
• Biochars
• Biofuels and fossil fuels
• Biological molecules
• Contaminated soils
• Electronic and urban wastes
• EMI shielding (including microwave absorbers)
• Foods, dyes and textile effluents
• Heavy, trace, catalytic and energy metals
• Industrial effluents (solvents, chemicals pharmaceuticals, flame retardants, etc.)
• Microplastics
• Nanomaterials
• Plastics, membranes, resins, etc.
• Radioactive wastes
• Solid wastes including end-of-use solar panels
• Toxic compounds
• Waste energy
• Water (groundwater, wastewater and oily wastewater, drinking water)
• Green Chemistry
• Green Manufacturing and Engineering
• Biomass or Wastes as Resources
• Alternative Energy
• Life-Cycle Assessment

Applications/ Methods/Processes

• Adsorption technologies
• Advanced oxidation processes
• Aerobic and anaerobic digestions
• Artificial intelligence/big data in resource management
• Biogas production
• Biomass-based catalysis, organocatalysis electrocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, photocatalysis, single atom catalysis
• Bioprocesses (biodegradation, biofiltration, bioremediation biosorption, biotreatment)
• Chemical processing of wastes
• Circular and net-zero economy
• CO₂ capture and utilization
• Eco-design for the environment and ecosystem restoration
• Electrochemical methods and processes
• Emulsion separation and oil spill remediation
• Gasification and pyrolysis
• Governance, legislation, and policy for sustainable resource management
• Green processes for waste management
• Industrial symbiosis
• Membrane technology and separation processes
• Mining of waste resources
• Phytoremediation
• Redox processes and hydrolysis
• Sensors and analytical methods for resource recovery
• Sustainability metrics in resource management
• Sustainable metallurgy
• Thermal energy storage/conversion technologies
• Upcycling and recycling processes

With a focus on the science, engineering and management of resources using sustainable approaches, ACS Sustainable Resource Management complements ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, and strengthens the overall portfolio of some ACS publications such as ACS Agricultural Science & Technology, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (ACS AMI) and other ACS AMI family of journals, ACS Catalysis, ACS ES&T Engineering, ACS ES&T Water, ACS Food Science & Technology, Energy & Fuels, Langmuir, Macromolecules, Biomacromolecules, Environmental Science & Technology, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

ACS Applied Nano Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology relevant to applications of nanomaterials. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important applications of nanomaterials.

Sample topics within the scope of this journal:

Materials:

• Inorganic, organic and hybrid nanomaterials
• Quantum dots
• Metallic and semiconducting nanoparticles
• Nanowires and nanotubes
• Self-assembled nanostructures
• 1- and 2-D materials
• Nano carbon, graphene, and related materials.

Applications:

• Catalysis and photocatalysis
• Sensors
• Plasmonics and photonics
• Biology, nanomedicine and theranostics
• Energy conversion and storage
• Nanopatterning and nanotechnology
• Novel approaches to synthesis of new and existing nanomaterials that have important applications

ACS Bio & Med Chem Au is an open access journal publishing work on all aspects of biological and medicinal chemistry. Studies providing fundamental insights or describing novel syntheses, as well as clinical or other applications-based work, are welcomed. The broad scope includes experimental and theoretical studies on the chemical, physical, mechanistic, and/or structural basis of biological or cell function, as well as medicinal chemistry and infection disease research.

Biological chemistry and chemical biology

• Chemical biology
• Enzymology
• Metallobiochemistry
• Synthetic biology
• Disease biology
• Cell biology
• Agriculture and food
• Natural products research
• Nucleic acid biology
• Neuroscience
• Structural biology
• Biophysics

Medicinal Chemistry

• Compound design and optimization
• Biological evaluation
• Molecular mechanistic understanding of drug delivery and drug delivery systems
• Imaging agents
• Pharmacology and translational science of small and large bioactive molecules
• Novel computational, cheminformatics, and structural studies for the identification (or structure-activity relationship analysis) of bioactive molecules, ligands, and their targets
• Computational studies applying established methods will be considered only in combination with novel experimental data (e.g., in cases where new compounds have been designed and tested).

Infectious Disease Research

• Pathogens
• Host-pathogen interactions
• Therapeutics
• Diagnostics
• Vaccines
• Drug-delivery systems
• Other biomedical technology development pertaining to infectious diseases