MSDE
A molecular engineering journal: building and designing systems from the molecular level.
Open Access: Hybrid
Scope
Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (MSDE) is an interdisciplinary journal reporting cutting-edge molecular engineering research.
Molecular engineering employs experimental, theoretical and computational approaches to establish new understanding of molecular properties and behaviours, and uses this understanding to design and assemble better materials, systems, and processes to achieve specific functions. MSDE provides a hub for research into new understanding of molecular systems and the use of this understanding in applications of technological significance that help address global challenges.
MSDE brings together physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and materials science to address:
- New concepts, capabilities and tools based on the study of the behaviour of molecular systems
- Screening, design, engineering, and optimisation of molecules, materials, and systems
- The conception, design, or engineering of functional devices based on molecular principles
- Development or use of statistical or machine learning methodologies for molecular design
- Integrated artificial intelligence and automated robotics in experimental science
All papers should address a molecular design or optimisation strategy. This can include the implementation of a molecular design or optimisation strategy targeting the functionality and performance of a system or process of interest. It can also include the development of a new molecular design or optimisation strategy based on fundamental insight into the parameters of a system or process of interest. Methodologies that have utility beyond the scope of the reported work, those covering multiple scales, and those discussing potential technological advances and applications, are particularly encouraged.
Examples of relevant systems and applications include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Energy: batteries, solar devices, fuel cells, thermoelectrics, electrocatalysis & photocatalysis
- Environmental: membranes, porous materials, detection & monitoring devices
- Bioengineering: imaging & diagnostics, tissue engineering & regeneration, therapeutics design & delivery, immune engineering.
- Quantum engineering: computing, cryptography, sensors, photonics
- Nano-manufacturing and control: directed self-assembly, nano-lithography, additive manufacturing
- Hard and soft materials: liquid crystals, ceramics, lubricants, polymers, glasses
- Electronics: molecular wires and switches, organic devices
- Processes: catalysis, solvents, chemical manufacturing, CO2 capture
The MSDE proposition, at the crossroads between pressing societal needs and emerging scientific innovation, is timely and compelling. The journal excels at bringing together researchers across often disparate fields of research to form a “molecular systems design community"
Claire Adjiman, Editor-in-chief
The combination of articles focused on new methods with those focused on specific applications provides an ideal opportunity to identify cross-pollination between these two distinct, but mutually reinforcing, thrusts
Andrew Ferguson, Deputy Editor-in-chief
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Journal Impact factor
3.2 (2024)
First decision time (all)
21.5 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
38 days
Indexing
ISSN: 2058-9689
Indexed in: Web of Science, Scopus
Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (MSDE) publishes work which establishes new understanding of molecular properties and behaviours, and uses this understanding to design and assemble better materials, systems, and processes to achieve specific functions.
At the interface of the chemical sciences and engineering, this unique journal is a joint venture between the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).
ISSN: 2058-9689
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Review article
Toward understanding biomolecular materials comprising intrinsically disordered proteins via simulation and experiment
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Quantum chemical screening of eutectic solvent components for insights into CO2 complexation mechanisms
Paper
Elucidating the role of charge transfer on semiconductor properties in a new donor–acceptor cocrystal 1,5-dihydroxynaphthalene : TCNQ
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Construction of an organic cage-based porous ionic liquid using an aminal tying strategy
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