Collections and calls for papers

Applied Life Sciences (General)

The Applied Life Sciences section of SN Applied Sciences aims to publish relevant articles that focus on modern applications of life sciences research in Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Health Sciences, Phys...

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Ongoing

Applied Life Sciences: Artificial Intelligence and Biological Intervention for Reaching Sustainable Medical and Environmental Goals

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown enormous potential in changing healthcare by enhancing diagnosis, treatment, and preventative measures. AI systems can swiftly and reliably analyse large volumes of dat...

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Open

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30 June 2024

Applied Life Sciences: Artificial Intelligence Applications for Medical CAD System Detection and Diagnosis

After cardiovascular disorders, cancer is the second most prevalent cause of mortality in many nations. Therefore, increasing the 5-year survival rate requires early diagnosis and identification. In order to...

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Open

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30 September 2024

Applied Life Sciences: Chemical Signals in Skin-Derived Biofluids

Skin surface has become a focal point of interest due to its potential as an easily accessible source of information about human body through the secretion of sweat and sebum, and the emanation of volatile c...

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Open

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01 December 2024

Applied Life Sciences: Emerging Biophotonics Technologies for Medical and Clinical Applications

The use of optical and photonics technologies is an exciting and rapidly emerging research area, especially in the fields of clinical applications. This topical collection aims to highlight the latest develo...

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Open

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31 October 2024

Applied Life Sciences: Exercise and Cancer

The number of people living with cancer or beyond is expected to increase as a result of better screening programs and advances in treatment. In addition to survival, efforts have begun to be directed at imp...

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Open

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30 September 2024

Applied Life Sciences: New Frontiers and Evolution of Organ-on-Chips for the Understanding of High Impact Diseases towards New Approaches for Drugs Discover and Personalized Medicine

In the last decade, a very detailed understanding of the biological, molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying the onset of high-impact diseases (cancers, heart diseases, and neural disorders) has been ach...

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Open

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30 September 2024

Applied Life Sciences: The Role of Plant Microbiome Engineering in Stressful Agriculture

Agricultural production faces different environmental challenges and the attack of pathogens that can lead to serious economic losses. Traditionally, to avoid a reduction in production, agrochemicals have be...

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Open

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31 August 2024

Chemistry (general)

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: 3D printing: Emerging Flexible Electronics with Printing Techniques, Medical Applications

This topical collection accepts any novel articles that are based on printing techniques (for e.g. inkjet, gravour, flexo printing, 3D printing, etc.,) leading to any electronic applications (transistors, el...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Advanced CO2 Utilization for Green Fuels and Chemicals Production

"The atmospheric concentration of CO2 among other greenhouse gases has significantly increased over the last few decades primarily due to the intensifying consumption of fossil fuels, clearing of agricultura...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Advanced Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, Applications

This topical collection will cover the recent works on material synthesis, different characterization techniques and the application of these synthesized materials in different fields of chemistry.

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Applied Phytochemistry: Characterization, Extraction and Applications in Food, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Industries

Phytochemicals are secondary metabolites distributed in the plant kingdom, and some can also be obtained from animal and fungal sources. These metabolites can be classified into alkaloids, saponins, flavonoi...

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Open

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01 November 2024

Chemistry: Carbon Nanostructures: Properties and Applications

The discovery of carbon nanostructures has boosted developments in physics, electronics, optics, mechanics, biology and medicine since the 1990s. Due to extraordinary properties and differentiated carbon hyb...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Chemistry and Materials Science of Medical Devices in Toxicological Perspective

This topical collection is focused on the in-depth details of the chemistry of materials that are currently used in medical devices in the aspect of toxicological effects during clinical use, with reference ...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Chemistry and Sustainability

This topical collection focuses on the role of chemistry on meeting fundamental human needs while preserving Earth's life support systems.

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Circular Economy, Waste Management and Recycling

This topical collection deals with strategies and novelties to reduce the use of raw materials, reuse and recycle the products and compounds. We are welcoming any articles which focuses on closed cycles, ren...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: CO2 Reduction: The Quest for Electrocatalytic Materials

Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) are of significant concern in modern society, as they lead to global warming and consequential environmental and societal changes. It is of importance to develop industr...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Conversion of Biomass and Waste to Chemicals and Fuels

Residual biomass and waste offer sustainable alternatives to petroleum-derived products. Recent developments in reducing the use of non-renewable resources have led to significant advancements in technologie...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 December 2024

Chemistry: Environmental Chemistry

This interdisciplinary topical collection focuses on the articles reporting chemistry that helps us to understand our environment. This understanding will eventually help us to deal more friendly and respons...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Food Chemistry–Food Technology: Chemistry and Biochemistry of Foods and Food Processing

This topical collection deals with the articles relating to major and minor compounds of food, food additives, contaminations and constituents as well as food technologies and nanotechnologies, food packagin...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Frontiers in Materials from Basic Science to Real-Time Applications

Catalysis/Photocatalysis/Electrocatalysis/Photoelectro-catalysis; Materials for energy production/conversion/storage; Materials for biomedical applications; Materials syntheses and characterizations strategi...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Hydrothermal Liquefaction: Chemicals, Biofuels and Valuable Compounds from Biomass, Plastic and Algae

The rapid depletion of conventional fossil fuels, chemicals, and valuable compounds and the day-by-day growth of environmental pollution due to the extensive use of fossil fuels has raised concerns over the ...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Chemistry: Industrial Chemistry

In this topical collection, we are looking for the articles concerned with the transformation of matter into useful materials in high scale or the potential for high scaling. Any development in the industria...

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Innovative Catalysts for Renewable Hydrogen Production and Utilization

Recently, the interest towards hydrogen production and utilization is increasing more and more. Due to the several environmental issues raised by the scientific community, the identification of renewable ene...

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Open

Submission deadline

29 May 2024

Chemistry: Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts for Chemical and Biofuel Cells

As the world transitions towards sustainable and environmentally friendly energy sources, fuel cells have emerged as a promising technology for powering a wide range of applications, from portable electronic...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 May 2024

Chemistry: Pharmaceutical, Medical, Medicinal and Clinical Chemistry

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Plant and Agri-Food Waste Extracts as Natural Preservatives in Food Industry

This collection aims to explore the potential of plant and agri-food waste extracts as natural preservatives in the food industry. The collection will encompass research articles and reviews that investigate...

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Open

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30 June 2024

Chemistry: Polymer, Zeolite, Nanocomposites: Synthesis, Characterization, Application

This topical collection will cover the recent works on polymer synthesis, different characterization techniques and the application of these synthesized polymers in different fields of chemistry.

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Open

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Ongoing

Chemistry: Synergy of Experimental and Theoretical Chemistry Methods in Identification of Novel Psychoactive Substances

The exploration of novel psychoactive substances stands as an imperative pursuit within forensic science, aiming to elucidate, classify, and comprehend the impact of emergent compounds encountered in legal c...

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Open

Submission deadline

09 September 2024

Earth & Environmental Sciences: Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability and Climate Management

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to play a significant role in sustainability and climate management by providing advanced analytical and decision-making capabilities. From an information syste...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 August 2024

Earth & Environmental Sciences: Hydrological Extremes

Climate change is imposing additional stress on water resources. Water depletion and the frequency of hydrological extremes and natural hazards are becoming more intensified. Therefore, the management of ext...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 August 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences (general)

The Earth and Environmental Sciences section of SN Applied Sciences aims to publish relevant articles and case studies within Earth and Environmental System Sciences. We welcome disciplinary papers from the ...

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Open

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Ongoing

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Advanced Applications of Data-Driven Models to Water Resources

Soft computational techniques relying on data mining has been applied to tackle various problems in water resources, hydrology, hydraulic, groundwater, and climate change impact assessment. Performances of d...

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Open

Submission deadline

15 August 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Advancements in Monitoring Soil Water and Plant Conditions in a Changing Climate

Soil water and plant systems are interconnected, and their interactions play a crucial role in the climate system. Monitoring these interactions is important for understanding and predicting the impacts of c...

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Open

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10 July 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Advances and Frontiers in Modeling, Assessment, and Mitigation of Geotechnical Problems

Macro- and micro-geotechnical mechanics can essentially explore the mechanisms of complex properties of geotechnical materials, establish their multi-scale analysis theories and methods, and help solve diffi...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 October 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Advances in Urban Global Environmental Challenges

This topical collection will publish research within the realm of urban environmental problems that aims to enhance the knowledge of the scientific community but also provide valuable information that can be...

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Open

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Ongoing

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Agroecological Crop, Weed and Pest Management

The EU Green Deal aims to the reduction of the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% by 2030 while globally there is a need for a more environmentally friendly and sustainable crop, pest and weed manage...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Applied Engineering to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on the Built and Natural Environments

The built environment comprises buildings, roads, rails, bridges, tunnels and all structures and systems designed to live, work, and travel. The built environment is an asset of great value that must be pres...

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Open

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30 June 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Bioremediation: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

Soil and water pollution throughout the globe are increasing at rapid rate, posing serious threat for ecosystem. There is strong need to find ways to control this pollution rate and one of the ecofriendly ap...

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Open

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Ongoing

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Birth of Chemistry 250th Anniversary Collection: Priestley’s Gases-of-Life in Modern Biosphere Science

Next year, 2024, is the 250th anniversary of the report by Joseph Priestley of his discovery of ‘dephlogisticated air’ on “Oxygen Day” August 1st, 1774, in his diary. This is now described by historians of s...

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Open

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30 June 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Calcium Carbonate Accumulation in Soils: Features, Genesis, Classification and Significance

It is well known that pedogenic carbonates are not uncommon at the base of some soils, especially in arid or semiarid climates. In fact, using binocular lenses, optical microscopy, and SEM, it is possible to...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Digital Transformation and Sustainable Growth

Digital transformation is a need sought to be fulfilled by most organizations that want to be competitive. It is no longer an inside tactic for reforming organizations. Information technology contributes to ...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Earth Surface Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Data and Artificial Intelligence

Recent advances in remote sensing technology allow rigorous monitoring of ground deformation and environment both in time and space. Thanks to artificial intelligence techniques and data processing platforms...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Emerging Pollutants in Soil and Wastes

The already limited natural resources in the environment are under extreme pressure from the growing world population. Industry, agricultural output, urban living, and other factors all create a lot of organ...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Hydro-climatic Changes, Associated Impacts on Water Resources and Crop Production

This topical collection encourages submission of research manuscripts; review article, case studies, research letters as well as short communications related to hydro-climatic changes and how these changes a...

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Open

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Ongoing

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Innovations in Hydrology and Water Resource Management in the Global South

The Global South, including developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, is facing numerous challenges related to water resource management, including increasing demands for water due to populati...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Life Cycle Assessment of Processes and Products

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) plays an essential part in estimating the environmental impact of new technologies and methods. LCA is a methodology to analyze and compare various products and technologies consi...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 November 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Microalgal-bacterial Processes

With fast-evolving global climate change, increasing efforts have been dedicated to the mitigation of greenhouse gases emission from municipal wastewater treatment plants. Considering that carbon taxing and ...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in a Multi-Risk Perspective

The growing concerns related to climate change and the increasing frequency of significant natural hazard impacts require the identification of adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, most of the time...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 May 2024