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Physical sciences and engineering journals with the BMC Series
The BMC Series is now a home for your research in the physical sciences and engineering fields. Find featured content, highlighted articles and journal information below.
Featured Article
There is a demand for new chemical reaction technologies and associated engineering aspects due to on-going transition in energy and chemistry associated to moving out progressively from the use of fossil fuels. Focus is given in this review on two main aspects: i) the development of alternative carbon sources and ii) the integration of renewable energy in the chemical production.
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- Design, synthesis, antiviral bioactivities and interaction mechanisms of penta-1,4-diene-3-one oxime ether derivatives containing a quinazolin-4(3H)-one scaffold
- The potential of polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMS) and PIM/graphene composites for pervaporation membranes
- Enhanced room temperature gas sensing properties of low temperature solution processed ZnO/CuO heterojunction
- Heterogeneous catalysts for catalytic CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals
- Evaluating urinary estrogen and progesterone metabolites using dried filter paper samples and gas chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS)
- Planning of Food-Energy-Water-Waster (FEW2) nexus for sustainable development
- Shipping and the Paris climate agreement: a focus on committed emissions
- Noble metal-free two dimensional carbon-based electrocatalysts for water splitting
- Carbonate dual-phase improves the performance of single-layer fuel cell made from mixed ionic and semiconductor composite
- Recent advances in ion sensing with conducting polymers
- Comparing negative emissions and high renewable scenarios for the European power system
- Multi-functional magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: diverse synthetic approaches, surface modifications, cytotoxicity towards biomedical and industrial applications
Physical sciences and engineering journals
Publishing with the BMC Series offers an inclusive platform for your research. Each journal publishes across the broad scope of its respective discipline, spanning chemistry, chemical engineering, energy and fuels and materials science.
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Open collections
Green Energy and Smart Systems
This special issue on “Green energy and a Smart System” will serve as an innovative and interesting platform for identify of solutions, modeling, and integration of smart energy generation and storage system.
Sustainable Water Systems
This cross-journal collection prudently investigates water systems, the sustainability crises that affect them and the opportunities they offer to resolve issues of sustainability.
Advanced Biofuels for CO2 Mitigation
Due to the potential importance of the microalgae in biofuel for CO2 mitigation, this thematic collection will cover all state-of-art research related to advanced biofuels for CO2 mitigation, covering from strain development, cultivation, to biorefineries of microalgae for biofuels.
CO2 transformation to produce value-added products
In this thematic collection, studies including, but not limited to, synthesis of organic chemicals and polymers by chemical CO2 conversion over catalysts, synthesis gas production from CO2 reforming of hydrocarbons and life cycle analysis of the CO2 conversion process, will be welcome.
2D-material membranes for gas and liquid separations
Due to the potential importance of these membranes, this thematic collection will cover state-of-art research on 2D membranes: the materials, their separation performance and associated process considerations.
Polyphenols and Ageing
In recent years, the potential for individual small molecule interventions to be used to prevent and remediate multiple age-related pathologies has been realised. Our collection is open to a broad selection of content related to polyphenols and ageing.
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Are you researching in engineering and the physical sciences but not yet ready to publish a full research article? BMC Research Notes provides a space for this work to be peer-reviewed and shared with the wider research community.
Need a home for your data? Whether you research in engineering, chemistry, earth sciences, or any of the other physical sciences, you can publish a data note. This makes your data easier to find, cite and share.
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