Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering is devoted to bringing forth short and focused review articles written by experts on current advances in different areas of chemical engineering. Only invited review articles will be published.

The goals of each review article in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering are:
1. To acquaint the reader/researcher with the most important recent papers in the given topic.
2. To provide the reader with the views/opinions of the expert in each topic.

The reviews are short (about 2500 words or 5-10 printed pages with figures) and serve as an invaluable source of information for researchers, teachers, professionals and students. The reviews also aim to stimulate exchange of ideas among experts.

Themed sections:
Each review will focus on particular aspects of one of the following themed sections of chemical engineering:
1. Nanotechnology
2. Energy and environmental engineering
3. Biotechnology and bioprocess engineering
4. Biological engineering (covering tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery)
5. Separation engineering (covering membrane technologies, adsorbents, desalination, distillation etc.)
6. Materials engineering (covering biomaterials, inorganic especially ceramic materials, nanostructured materials).
7. Process systems engineering
8. Reaction engineering and catalysis.

Selection of the topics to be reviewed:
Section Editors of each themed section are authorities in the field and are selected by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasized. Section Editors commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected. Each issue of the journal will focus on two themed sections. There will be four issues of the journal per year covering each themed section once per year.

Reviews:
Authors write short review articles in which they present most recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous three to four years. The review articles undergo internal review by the Section Editors, Editorial Boardmembers and the Editors.

Editorial Overview:
Section Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments.

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Kamalesh Sirkar
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Biotech & Bioprocess
Michael Betenbaugh
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Nigel Titchener-Hooker
University College London (UCL), London, UK
Biological Engineering
Sharon Gerecht
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Balaji Narasimhan
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Energy and Environmental Engineering
Heriberto Cabezas
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Cincinnatti, Ohio, USA, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
Vasilios Manousiouthakis
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Materials Engineering
Thein Kyu
University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA
Jainagesh Sekhar
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Nanotechnology
Hong Yang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Huachun Zeng
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Process Systems Engineering
Mahmoud El-Halwagi
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
Ka Ming Ng
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Reaction Engineering and Catalysis
Marc-Olivier Coppens
University College London (UCL), London, England, UK
Theodore Tsotsis
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Separation Engineering
Winston Ho
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Kang Li
Imperial College London, London, UK
Editorial Board
Alexis Bell
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Tai-Shung CHUNG
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Ferenc Friedler
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
Rafiqul Gani
PSE for SPEED, Denmark
Rafael Hernandez
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Winston Ho
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Wei-Shou Hu
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Dilhan M. Kalyon
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Boris Khusid
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Michael. R. Ladisch
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Robert S. Langer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Sang Yup Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, The Republic of Korea
Kang Li
Imperial College London, London, UK
James C. Liao
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA
Guy Marin
Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium
Richard Noble
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Donald Paul
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Nicholas Peppas
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Sotiris Pratsinis
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Doraiswami Ramkrishna
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Thomas Russell
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Jaap Schouten
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Subhas Sikdar
National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Randall Snurr
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Greg Stephanopoulos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Chi Tien
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
Theodore Tsotsis
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Norman Wagner
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Ralph Yang
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Masakazu Yoshikawa
Piotrek Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan
Huachun Zeng
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Andrew Zydney
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA