To celebrate that RSC Sustainability has published its first issues we organised an author showcase webinar. The webinar highlighted a broad range of the excellent work published in our journal so far through a mix of live speakers and pre-recorded contributions.
Find out more about RSC Sustainability and read our published articles here.
Join our RSC Sustainability author showcase
10 May 2023, 14:00-15.15 (UK time)
Our upcoming author showcase is your chance to discover papers from RSC Sustainability. Whether you’re curious about the newest solutions for a greener future, or are looking for the right place to publish your own discoveries, join us on 10 May to hear from our authors and editorial board members.
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The latest research from RSC Sustainability is ready for you to discover. You’ll find the latest excellent, solutions-focused research in the chemical sciences dedicated to solving sustainability challenges – all free to read online. Read our papers here.
We look forward to you joining us.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Mike Sutton, Lubrizol, UK as an Editorial Board Member for RSC Sustainability, a new open access journal publishing solutions-focused research to solve sustainability challenges.
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Mike Sutton is a Corporate Technical Fellow at Lubrizol. Mike has a broad range of projects for which he is accountable looking to bring environmental sustainability and lifecycle thinking into Lubrizol products and manufacturing in the short, medium and long term across the corporation and on a global basis.
Mike joined Lubrizol in 2002, historically working in chemical additives for engine oils, both in passenger and commercial vehicle areas. Prior to Lubrizol Mike worked for Ford Motor Company in their diesel engineering department and prior to that on completion of his PhD worked for the UK government in lubricants for the armed forces.
Mike is an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham and serves on the advisory board for the School of Chemistry at the University. He has previously served on various committees including the EPSRC Science Engineering and Technology Board.
Read out most recently published papers here. Find out more about RSC Sustainability on the journal webpage and submit your manuscript now.
Please join us in welcoming Dr Mike Sutton to RSC Sustainability.
We are delighted to welcome Professor David Cole-Hamilton, University of St Andrews, UK as an Editorial Board Member for RSC Sustainability, a new open access journal publishing solution-focused research to solve sustainability challenges.
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Following degrees (BSc and PhD) at Edinburgh University, David Cole-Hamilton worked with Nobel Laureate, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson at Imperial College, where he developed a strong interest in organometallic chemistry and especially homogeneous catalysis. His independent career started at Liverpool University (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer) before moving to be Professor of Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews in 1985. He became Emeritus in 2014.
The majority of his work has been on the applications of organometallic chemistry to solving problems in homogeneous catalysis and materials chemistry including nanomaterials. His most recent work has been concerned with making commodity and fine chemicals including plastics and pharmaceuticals from bio-derived waste oils that are by-products of other processes such as food production or paper manufacturing. In this way desirable effect chemicals can be made from biomass without using land that would otherwise be used for food production.
David has published more than 400 articles and patents with an h-index of 50. Particularly relevant to the scope of RSC Sustainability is The Role of Chemists and Chemical Engineers in a Sustainable World, in which he shows how chemistry can be used to tackle all of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
He has won a number of prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as 5 prizes for teaching. In 2017 he was awarded the Alwin Mittasch Prize of the German Catalysis Society.
David is a past President of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS) having been President from 2013-7. This gave him extensive contact with chemical societies and policy makers throughout Europe. On behalf of EuChemS he led a team celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table, which developed a new version of the Periodic Table highlighting element availability and vulnerability as well as which elements can come from conflict resources and which appear in smart phones.
Read some of his recent contributions below:
Synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs from cardanol derived from cashew nut shell liquid
Yiping Shi, Paul C.J. Kramer and David J. Cole-Hamilton
Green Chemistry, 2019, 21, 1043-1053
Patrizia Lorusso, Graham R. Eastham and David J. Cole-Hamilton
Dalton Transactions, 2018, 47, 9411-9417
Read out first articles here. Find out more about RSC Sustainability on the journal webpage and submit your manuscript now.
Please join us in welcoming Professor David Cole-Hamilton to RSC Sustainability.
Read the first-ever issue of our gold open access journal
Our first issue is packed with full papers, communications, tutorial reviews and perspectives within the realm of sustainability and a better future. Plus, you can discover an editorial from our editor-in-chief, Tom Welton. Explore the full issue here.
Some of the articles included…
Introducing RSC Sustainability
Tom Welton
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 8-9, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU90001G
Global essay competition: Young Voices in the Chemical Sciences for Sustainability
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 10, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU90002E
Sosthène P M Ung, Chao-Jun Li
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 11-37, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00015F
Shan-Shan Chai, Wei-Bin Zhang, Jin-Lei Yang, Lun Zhang, Myat Myintzu Theint, Xian-Li Zhang, Shao-Bo Guo, Xia Zhou, Xue-Jing Ma
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 38-71, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00054G
Surfactant-free synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles: a perspective
Siavash Iravani
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 72-82, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00088A
Recycling post-consumer PLA into acrylic acid or lactide using phosphonium ionic liquids
Kwinten Janssens, Wouter Stuyck, Kirsten Stiers, Jens Wéry, Mario Smit, Dirk E de Vos
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 83-89, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00078D
Mika Takeuchi, Yutaka Amao
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 90-96, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00031H
Marianna Granatier, Huy Quang Lê, Eva Carmona González, Herbert Sixta
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 97-106, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00046F
Tailoring lixiviant properties to optimise selectivity in E-waste recycling
Jennifer M Hartley, Sean Scott, Rodolfo Marin Rivera, Phil Hunt, Anthony J Lucio, Philip Bird, Robert Harris, Gawen R T Jenkin, Andrew P Abbott
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 107-116, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00038E
Parul Johar, Elizabeth L Rylott, C Robert McElroy, Avtar S Matharu, James H Clark
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 117-127, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00001F
Keshavananda Prabhu C P, Kenkera Rayappa Naveen, Shambhulinga Aralekallu, Shivalingayya, Lokesh Koodlur Sannegowda
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 128-138, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00035K
Shah Faisal, Saima Sadiq, Muhammad Mustafa, Muhammad Hayat Khan, Muhammad Sadiq, Zaffer Iqbal, Maham Khan
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 139-146, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00044J
Ivy L Librando, Anup Paul, Abdallah G Mahmoud, Atash V Gurbanov, Sónia A C Carabineiro, M Fátima C Guedes da Silva, Carlos F G C Geraldes, Armando J L Pombeiro
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 147-158, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00017B
Color stability of blue aluminates obtained from recycling and applied as pigments
Dienifer F L Horsth, Julia de O Primo, Nayara Balaba, Fauze J Anaissi, Carla Bittencourt
RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 159-166, DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00057A
RSC Sustainability is one of the latest additions to our gold open access journal portfolio. Every article in this issue, and future ones, is free to read and access by anyone. Publish your next paper in RSC Sustainability to be included in one of our issues. We are covering all article processing charges until mid-2025, so until then, you can publish with us for free.
All of our publications contribute to important conversations on sustainability, our planet and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. We hope you feel inspired reading these.
Submit your manuscript to RSC Sustainability here!
One of the unique features of RSC Sustainability is that all manuscripts should include a Sustainability Spotlight statement (120 words maximum) that should categorically state the sustainable advance of the work and how it aligns with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This statement should be different from the abstract and set the work in a broader context regarding sustainability. It should aim to answer the following questions.
This statement will be seen by the reviewers and will help ascertain the relevance of the article for a broad but technical audience and authors should use it to show that they have given serious consideration to problems that are sustainable in nature. If the paper is accepted this statement will also be published. Manuscripts cannot be reviewed without this statement
Examples can be found in our recent publications. An excellent example of our Sustainable Spotlight statements can be found in James Clark’s work on depolymerising polyethylene. Read the article and its Sustainable Spotlight statement here (and below).
To celebrate the launch of our three new journals, RSC Sustainability, EES Catalysis, and Sustainable Food Technology, earlier this year, we organised three satellite events that ran in parallel to this year’s COP27 meeting in Egypt.
Our new journals all address topics that align with several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Each journal hosted a webinar where the panels discussed some of the current challenges and opportunities in their respective fields through a mix of live speakers and pre-recorded contributions.
RSC Sustainability
Join RSC Sustainability board members Tom Welton and Fran Kerton, along with RSC’s Programme Manager for Net Zero John Broderick as they discuss the challenges and opportunities for sustainable chemistry.
Find out more about RSC Sustainability and read our first published articles.
EES Catalysis
Join the RSC’s Programme Manager for Net Zero John Broderick and Jonathan Oxley (CBI Humber Cluster project) as they share their thoughts about challenges and opportunities for hydrogen as a sustainable fuel source.
Find out more about EES Catalysis and read our first published articles.
Sustainable Food Technology
Join Sustainable Food Technology board members Jorge Barros Velázquez, Rekha Singhal, Umezuruike Linus Opara, and Indrawati Oey as they discuss the challenges and opportunities to make food production more sustainable for the future.
Find out more about Sustainable Food Technology and read our first published articles.
We hope you enjoy these webinars and reading the first articles in our new journals!
RSC Sustainability champions chemical science discoveries. We want the research we publish to enable the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and we are delighted to share our very first papers with you. Read our first articles here for free!
Sosthène Ung and Chao-Jun Li
RSC Sustainability, 2022, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00015F
Parul Johar, Elizabeth L. Rylott, C. Robert McElroy, Avtar S. Matharu and James H. Clark
RSC Sustainability, 2022, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00001F
Tailoring lixiviant properties to optimise selectivity in E-waste recycling
Jennifer M. Hartley, Sean Scott, Rodolfo Marin Rivera, Philip Hunt, Anthony J. Lucio, Philip Bird, Robert Harris, Gawen R.T. Jenkin and Andrew P. Abbott
RSC Sustainability, 2022, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00038E
Marianna Granatier, Huy Quang Lê, Eva Carmona González and Herbert Sixta
RSC Sustainability, 2022, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00046F
Mika Takeuchi and Yutaka Amao
RSC Sustainability, 2022, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D2SU00031H
Professor Tom Welton: “As the Editor-in-Chief of RSC Sustainability, I am pleased to see these first articles that contribute toward circular economy through the use of renewables and efficient use of nature’s resources, and look forward to our sharing our future papers with you too.”
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RSC Sustainability is a gold open access journal. We welcome solutions-focused research that is dedicated to solving sustainability challenges. Interested in publishing your research? Submit your manuscript. |
Best wishes,
Tom Welton
Editor-in-Chief, RSC Sustainability
Imperial College London, UK
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Our sustainable laboratories programme helps scientists adopt environmentally sustainable lab practices. Read highlights and discover more.
Meet the RSC Sustainability team
Join our board members Tom Welton, Haichao Liu and Fran Kerton for our COP27 satellite event on 11 November 2022. Find out more here.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo, Deakin University, Australia, as an Associate Editor for RSC Sustainability, a new open access journal publishing solution-focused research to solve sustainability challenges.
Learn more about our new Associate Editor
Dr. Pozo-Gonzalo works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Deakin University in Melbourne (Australia). She attained her Bachelor of Science and honours at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). After graduating, she received her PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) on the electrochemical synthesis of Conducting Polymers. In 2004, she joined the Centre for Electrochemical Technologies in San Sebastian (Spain) as the Head of Electrooptical unit where she stayed for 7 years, managing a total of 23 projects. After moving to Australia, she has been working with Prof. Alan Bond at Monash University and in 2012 she joined Deakin University where she has been working in reversible metal-air battery with advanced electrolytes, ionic liquids funded by ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES).
Currently, she leads research activities in sustainable energy storage technologies covering the circular economy (CE) model from materials redesign up to critical metals recovery using solvometallurgy and electrochemistry with important benefits for the environment. She has led IFM’s development of an energy research node on circular economy (CE) for energy storage and generation and designed the Institute’s CE road map. She is a board member for the journal Sustainable Chemistry, Review editor of Frontiers in Chemistry in the electrochemistry division and Associate Editor for RSC Sustainability. During her research career, she has published 97 publications, including 4 patents and 3 book chapters and managed 33 projects as chief investigator.
Read some of her recent contributions below:
Han Li, The An Ha, Nagore Ortiz-Vitoriano, Xungai Wang, Jian Fang, Patrick C. Howlett and Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022, 10, 11742-11754
Kalani Periyapperuma, Jennifer M. Pringle, Laura Sanchez-Cupido, Maria Forsyth and Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo
Green Chemistry, 2021, 23, 3410-3419
RSC Sustainability is now open for submissions. Find out more on the journal webpage, sign up to e-Alerts or submit your manuscript now.
Please join us in welcoming Dr Pozo-Gonzalo to RSC Sustainability.
We are delighted to welcome Professor Haichao Liu, Peking University, China, as an Associate Editor for RSC Sustainability, a new open access journal publishing solution-focused research to solve sustainability challenges.
Learn more about our new Associate Editor
Haichao Liu is the Changjiang Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Peking University, China. He received his B.S. degree in 1990 and M.S. degree from Sichuan University in 1993, and his Ph.D degree from Beijing Research Institute of Petroleum Processing in 1996. From 1997 to 2003, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tokyo and the University of California at Berkeley. He then joined the faculty of Peking University. His research group works in the area of molecular catalysis and sustainable energy chemistry, focusing on the fundamental studies of the catalyst structures and reaction mechanisms, towards the design of heterogeneous catalysts and control of reaction pathways for selective conversion of biomass and its derivatives to bulk and fine chemicals, as well as other reactions important in renewable energy conversion and utilization.
Read some of his recent contributions below:
Zhaowei Li, Xin Wen and Haichao Liu
Green Chemistry, 2022, 24, 1650-1658
Xin He, Xin Wen, Ke Wu and Haichao Liu
Green Chemistry, 2021, 23, 6625-6631
RSC Sustainability is now open for submissions. Find out more on the journal webpage, sign up to e-Alerts or submit your manuscript now.
Please join us in welcoming Prof. Liu to RSC Sustainability.
