Chemistry for sustainability: emerging solutions across energy, materials and food systems

Sustainability challenges rarely respect disciplinary lines and solving them means rethinking how we generate energy, design materials, and produce food, together. This collection, published jointly across Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Sustainable Food Technology, and RSC Sustainability, showcases chemistry-driven research at the intersection of these sectors: renewable energy and storage, sustainable and circular materials, green food processing and preservation, catalysis for cleaner transformations, and waste valorisation across value chains.

The collection particularly welcomes contributions from authors working in both academia and industry, reflecting collaborative effort needed to translate sustainable chemistry into real-world impact.

Articles can be submitted via the journal’s online submission system any time before the deadline. Please mention that your submission is an open call contribution to the Chemistry for Sustainability: Emerging Solutions Across Energy, Materials and Food Systems collection in the ‘Themed issues’ section of the submission form. All submissions will be subject to rigorous editorial assessment to meet the usual high standards of the journal. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and peer review or acceptance are not guaranteed. Accepted articles will be published in regular issues and later collated into the themed collection, which will be promoted widely.