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Expectations for Manuscripts in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering: Scope Summary and Call for Creativity
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ( IF 8.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 , DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c07548
David T. Allen , D. Julie Carrier , Jingwen Chen , Nicholas Gathergood , Jinlong Gong , Hongxian Han , King Kuok (Mimi) Hii , Bing-Joe Hwang , Asha Liza James , Peter Licence , Michael Meier , Audrey Moores , Ryuhei Nakamura , Thalappil Pradeep , Bert Sels , Bala Subramaniam , Michael K. C. Tam , Lina Zhang , Lin Zhuang , Rhea M. Williams

This year, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (ACS SCE) has published a series of editorials describing the scope of the journal in topical areas that span the fields addressed by the majority of manuscripts submitted to the journal.(1) The editorials have focused on sustainable materials,(2) catalysis,(3) nanoscience and nanotechnology,(4) industrial ecology,(5) biomass feedstocks and processing,(6) solvents,(7) photochemistry and photoelectrochemistry, and electrochemistry for energy conversion and storage.(8) The desirable features sought by our editors in manuscripts were highlighted, and attributes that commonly deter manuscripts from being sent for peer review were described. We hope that potential authors have found this information helpful. As we close this series of editorials, we wish to emphasize that the topical areas described in this series of editorials do not represent the entire scope of ACS SCE. We remind authors that we welcome manuscripts that describe innovations in the rapidly evolving field of sustainable chemistry and engineering in its broadest context. The Chair of our Editorial Advisory Board, Paul Anastas, identified several emerging areas of green chemistry and green engineering research in his editorial titled “Worthy and Necessary Challenges”.(9) These include topics such as ubiquitous and interconnected sensors, big-data analytics and synthetics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, synthetic biology and ease of genetic manipulation, and distributed manufacturing and 3-D/4-D printing of components for green manufacturing or products. Manuscripts in these specific areas are certainly welcome, but there are other areas, too numerous to list, that are also encouraged. Broadly, contributions that stem from a nexus of topical areas are welcomed. A simple search of published articles in ACS SCE that include the word “nexus” returns hundreds of papers. For example, many papers have reported quantitative models describing coupled food, energy, air, and water systems. We welcome manuscripts that characterize the features of a nexus between topical areas and that explore how the sustainability of coupled systems might be improved. We also broadly encourage the creativity of authors in defining new topics for ACS SCE. More specifically, what we mean by creativity was well articulated by John Prausnitz, a distinguished researcher and educator from the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, who wrote that(10) “A creative act is one where two ideas or concepts, previously believed to be totally separate, are for the first time, shown to be closely related.” He went on to argue that “the essence of creativity-tying together two separate ideas, need not be limited to those cases where both ideas come from the world of science.” He gave, as one of several examples, Bohr’s description of the origin of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which Bohr attributed to spectroscopy and the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard. Prausnitz(10) used this example, and others, to suggest that “In any one field of human endeavor, progress is inevitably attained by borrowing from another.” We embrace this concept as we report progress in green chemistry and green engineering, welcoming manuscripts that advance these disciplines by drawing from other fields. On behalf of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, we look forward to your comments, and we invite your creative manuscripts. Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS. This article references 10 other publications.

中文翻译:

ACS可持续化学与工程中的稿件期望:范围摘要和创造力

今年,ACS可持续化学与工程ACS SCE)发表了一系列社论,描述了主题领域的期刊范围,涵盖了提交给该期刊的大多数手稿所涉及的领域。(1)社论主要关注可持续材料,(2)催化作用,(3)纳米科学和纳米技术,(4)工业生态学,(5)生物质原料和加工,(6)溶剂,(7)光化学和光电化学,以及用于能量转换和存储的电化学。(8)编辑们在稿件中寻求的理想特征突出显示,并描述了通常阻止稿件发送给同行评审的属性。我们希望潜在的作者发现此信息有帮助。当我们关闭这一系列社论时,ACS SCE。我们提醒作者,我们欢迎在最广泛的背景下描述可持续化学和工程学快速发展领域中的创新的手稿。我们的编辑咨询委员会主席Paul Anastas在他的社论“值得挑战的挑战”中指出了绿色化学和绿色工程研究的几个新兴领域。(9)这些主题包括无处不在和相互连接的传感器,大数据分析以及合成材料,人工智能和机器学习,合成生物学和遗传操作的简便性,以及用于绿色制造或产品的组件的分布式制造和3-D / 4-D打印。这些特定领域的手稿当然是受欢迎的,但也鼓励其他领域(太多以至于无法列出)。宽广地,欢迎来自主题领域的联​​系。对已发表文章的简单搜索包含单词“ nexus”的ACS SCE返回数百篇论文。例如,许多论文已经报道了描述食物,能源,空气和水系统耦合的定量模型。我们欢迎描述主题领域之间联系的特征的手稿,并探讨如何改善耦合系统的可持续性。我们还广泛鼓励作者在为ACS SCE定义新主题时发挥创造力。更具体地说,我们所说的创造力是由加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校化学学院的杰出研究员兼教育家约翰·普劳斯尼茨(John Prausnitz)很好地阐述的,他写道:(10)“创造性行为是两个思想或观念存在的地方。以前被认为是完全独立的,这是第一次被证明是密切相关的。” 他继续指出,“创造力的本质-将两个独立的思想联系在一起,不必局限于这两个思想都来自科学界的情况。” 作为几个例子之一,他给出了玻尔对哥本哈根量子力学解释的起源的描述,玻尔将其归因于光谱学和索伦·基尔凯郭尔的哲学。Prausnitz(10)使用此示例及其他示例来表明,“在人类的任何领域,向别人借钱是不可避免的。” 当我们报告绿色化学和绿色工程方面的进展时,我们就接受了这一概念,并欢迎通过借鉴其他领域来推动这些学科发展的手稿。代表ACS可持续化学与工程,我们期待您的意见,并邀请您提出创意手稿。本社论中表达的观点只是作者的观点,不一定是ACS的观点。本文引用了其他10个出版物。
更新日期:2020-11-02
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