Green Chemistry is delighted to announce a call for papers for its latest themed collection on Green Liquids and Solvents, Guest Edited by Zhenzhen Yang (Oak Ridge National Lab, USA), Kecheng Jie (Nanjing University, China) and Jessica Rimsza (Sandia National Laboratories, USA).
About this Themed Collection:
Sustainable liquid media plays a crucial role in separation, catalysis, energy storage, and beyond, particularly compositions that are biodegradable, non-toxic, renewable, and non-volatile. Ionic liquids (ILs), deep eutectic solvents (DESs), water, supercritical fluids, and bio-based solvents remain at the forefront of green chemistry, demonstrating transformative properties across diverse applications. Beyond their conventional use as single-phase liquid media, recent research has explored innovative strategies to integrate these solvents with other material categories, unlocking new functionalities. A cutting-edge development in this field is the successful engineering of permanent porosities into dense liquid phases forming so-called “porous liquids”, based on ILs, water, and bio-based solvents, enhancing their efficiency in separation and catalysis. In gas storage, the structural design of controllable liquid molecular assemblies has enabled cascade gas trapping in liquid sorbents, significantly outperforming single-component liquid media. This Themed Collection welcomes contributions to recent advances in sustainable liquid technologies, with a particular emphasis on green synthesis strategies, facile fabrication techniques, advanced characterization methods, computational modeling, theoretical frameworks, fundamental structure-function investigations, and cutting-edge applications in separation, catalysis, energy storage, and beyond.
Open for Submissions until 31st March 2026
This call for papers is open for the following article types:
- Communications
- Full papers
- Reviews
How to Submit
If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, articles can be submitted via our website: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gc. We would be grateful if upon submission you would mention that your manuscript is intended for this themed collection as an open call.
Please note that for publication, manuscripts must meet the usual rigorous and high standards for acceptance in the journal, and all submissions will be subject to initial assessment for suitability for a full peer review before a final decision is made. Accepted articles will be published online in a citeable form, included in the web collection and published in an issue as soon as they are ready. We aim to promote the completed collection in 2026.
