Reaction Chemistry and Engineering

Key topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Reaction engineering approaches or technologies:

• Reaction development and optimisation (including catalysis and catalyst design, mechanistic and kinetic studies, analysis and monitoring, mechanism and kinetics, screening, intensification and scale-up)
• Synthesis technologies (including electrochemistry, photochemistry and mechanochemistry)
• Reaction and process engineering (including continuous processes, reactor design, integrated reactors, microfluidics and new reactor concepts)
• Flow chemistry (including organic, inorganic, enzymatic, analytical and process chemistry)
• Digitalisation of chemistry and biochemistry (including analysis and monitoring, automation, visualisation, machine learning, algorithms, high-throughput discovery and cyber-physical systems)
• Biochemical engineering (including biocatalysis, enzyme engineering, bioprocessing and chemical biology)
• Materials synthesis and processing (including nanomaterials, nanoparticles, polymers, surfaces, interfaces and membranes)
• Separations (including reactive extraction/distillation and membrane-based processes)

Biological, chemical, medical, environmental and energy applications:

• Pharmaceutical and speciality chemical development (including target identification and screening, synthetic route development and process design, intensification and scale-up)
• Sustainable chemistry (including platform chemicals from bioresources and waste, alternative solvents, circular economy and efficient processes)
• Environment and climate (including clean water, carbon capture, reactive and membrane separations, solar fuels and pollution abatement)