Insights in Chemical Engineering

We are now entering the second quarter of the 21st Century, and, especially in recent years, the achievements made by scientists have been exceptional, leading to major advancements in the fast-growing field of chemical engineering.

Frontiers have organized this Research Topic to highlight the latest advancements in research across the field of chemical engineering, with articles from the members of our accomplished Editorial Board and the wider community. This editorial initiative has a multi-disciplinary approach with a particular focus on new insights, novel developments, current challenges, latest discoveries, recent advances, and future perspectives in the field of chemical engineering.

The Research Topic solicits brief, forward-looking contributions from the research community that describe the state of the art, outlining, recent developments and major accomplishments that have been achieved and that need to occur to move the field forward. Authors are encouraged to identify the greatest challenges in the sub-disciplines, and how to address those challenges.

The goal of this special edition Research Topic is to shed light on the progress made in the past decade in the broader chemical engineering field, and on its future challenges to provide a thorough overview of the field. This article collection will inspire, inform and provide direction and guidance to researchers in the field.

Article types welcomed include Original Research Papers, Reviews, Mini Reviews, Methods and Perspectives that collectively provide a sweeping overview of the direction of the field of analytical science.

Including but not limited to the following specialty areas:

• Biochemical Engineering

• Catalytic Engineering

• Chemical Reaction Engineering

• Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering

• Electrochemical Engineering

• Environmental Chemical Engineering

• Materials Process Engineering

• Microfluidic Engineering and Process Intensification

• Mixing and Particle Technology

• Separation Processes

• Surface and Interface Engineering

• Sustainable Process Engineering

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• ... View all formats

Articles that are accepted for publication by our external editors following rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to Authors, institutions, or funders.

Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Chemical Engineering, future directions, emerging technologies, recent advances, process engineering

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.