Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our Collections.

  • Controlling disorder in framework materials

    This collection aims to highlight the importance of disorder in framework materials, including characterisation their structures and the types of disorder present, and the role of disorder in the materials’ properties and function.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 January 2025

    • Crystal polymorphism

      This Collection aims to showcase research on small molecule and crystalline framework polymorphism, with a focus on applications in pharmaceutical and materials sciences, as well as state-of-the-art techniques for the prediction, analysis, and characterisation of polymorphs.
      • Marc Little, PhD
      • Ming Lu, PhD
      • Kana M. Sureshan, PhD
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 January 2025

    • Nucleic acid chemistry

      This Collection aims to offer insight and inspiration for nucleic acid chemistry, focusing on the structure, function, generation, modification, characterization, as well as application of nucleic acids.
      • Andrea Rentmeister, PhD
      • Michal Hocek, PhD, DSc
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 November 2024

    • Mechanically interlocked molecules

      This Collection aims to bring together the latest research on mechanically interlocked molecules, including with respect to their design, construction, characterization, properties, function and application.
      • Jose Berna
      • Fredrik Schaufelberger
      • Serena Silvi
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 August 2024

    • Main group chemistry

      This Main Group Chemistry Collection invites submissions covering fundamental and applied research and welcomes both experimental and theoretical contributions.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 August 2024

      • Self-Assembled Soft Matter

        In this cross-journal Collection, across Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports, we focus on different forms of self-assembled soft matter, from fundamental studies to applied systems. This includes, for example, coacervation and liquid-liquid phase separation, chiral systems and polymer assemblies.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 October 2024

        • Mass spectrometry method development

          Mass spectrometry is a cornerstone technique across various scientific disciplines, enabling precise analysis of complex samples, characterization of atom clusters and molecules, and elucidation of reaction mechanisms. This cross-journal Collection brings together advances in method development for mass spectrometry, including but not limited to advances in sample preparation, instrumentation, automation and integration, computational data analysis and prediction.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 October 2024

          • Sodium-based battery development

            This cross-journal Collection brings together the latest developments in electrodes, electrolytes, and battery components used in aqueous and non-aqueous sodium-based battery applications.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 October 2024

            • Fluorescent probes for bioimaging and biosensing

              This Collection aims to offer insights and inspiration for the development of fluorescent probes for biological imaging and sensing. We encourage submissions that focus on design strategies and rational response mechanisms, electronic and spectral characteristics, and biological applications as powerful tools for chemical biology.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 September 2024

              • Fragments in Drug Discovery

                In this collection, we want to highlight research that focuses on fragments in drug discovery. Have you found validated fragment hits for a new disease target? Maybe they unlocked an unreported enzyme mechanism? Were you able to develop a method that is useful for fragment-based drug discovery? Perhaps you found a hit that made it to clinical trials? We invite all scientists who work with fragments in the context of drug discovery to submit their interesting fragment stories. We look forward to hearing all about them.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 September 2024