The Royal Society of Chemistry was delighted to attend the Chinese Chemical Society Congress held in Chongqing, China on the 11th – 14th April 2026. At the congress, Dr Guanqun Song and Dr Manman Wang ran a ‘meet the editor’ session in coordination with Professor Jianbin Huang (Associate Editor for RSC Applied Interfaces) and Professor Xiaohui Qiu (Scientific Editor for Nanoscale Horizons), which included presentations introducing RSC Applied Interfaces and our companion journal RSC Applied Polymers. The Editorial Boards’ for each journal were introduced and some recent updates were presented, such as the announcement of our 2026 New Principal Investigators collection (explore our blog post here). Explore the photos from the presentations below!
Dr Guanqun Song and Professor Jianbin Huang give an overview of some of the RSC journals including RSC Applied Polymers and RSC Applied Interfaces.
Dr Manman Wang presents the New Principal Investigators collection running across Nanoscale Advances, Energy Advances, RSC Advances, Materials Advances and Environmental Science Advances.
Celebrating our Outstanding Reviewers
The ‘meet the editors’ session concluded with the presentation of award certificates, to celebrate some of the outstanding reviewers for our journals, with those who received the awards listed below:
Dr Yongjie Wang, Soochow University
Prof Xiaojun Wu, University of Science and Technology of China
Dr Huan Liu, Beihang University
Dr Xuejiao Wang, Fujian Normal University
Prof Kun Liu, Jilin University
Prof Feng Shi, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Congratulations to all of the Outstanding Reviewers and thank you for all of your hard work!
Explore Jianbin Huang’s Editors Choice Collection of Articles and Popular Articles from the Region
This collection features articles published in RSC Applied Interfaces that have been specially selected by Professor Jianbin Huang (Associate Editor RSC Applied Interfaces, Peking University, China). These papers represent some of the top work published in the journal in our first year. Explore the collect here, or discover some of our recent and popular articles from China below:
🔸 Current states and future challenges of multifunctional flame-retardant polyurethane coatings
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RSC Applied Interfaces is a dedicated, interdisciplinary reference journal for cutting-edge research on the applications of surfaces and interfaces. In addition to the applied focus, work considered for publication in RSC Applied Interfaces is expected to be highly original and of top quality. The journal seeks to report major scientific advances beyond the state of the art, at the cutting edge of this interdisciplinary field. |