SusMat aims to publish on a wide variety of topics that focus on sustainable development in a broad range of areas: materials science, engineering, chemistry, physics and ecology. It is expected to take an interdisciplinary, integrated and balanced approach to all areas of sustainable materials with ambitions of high academic impact.
The scope of SusMat is intentionally broad and encompasses relevant fields for sustainable energy and environment including but not limited to the following topics:
1) Environment friendly materials: polymer degradation, waste polymer recycles, biomaterials, biomass conversion, carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon capture and utilization (CCU), clean synthesis technology and lead-free perovskite.
2) Green catalysis: homogenous catalysis as well as heterogenous catalysis embracing electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, environmental catalysis, biocatalysis, organocatalysis, enzymatic catalysis, nanoparticle catalysis, catalytic synthesis and mechanism.
3) Clean energy: sustainable energy (solar, geothermal, wind and hydrogen energy), energy conversion and storage, energy efficiency and alternative fuel technologies.
4) Waste treatment and management: solid waste treatment (Pyrolysis, toxic substance reduction & separation, and resource recovery), exhaust gas treatment (desulfurization, decarbonization, denitrification, and volatile organic compounds removal), water cleaning (Ion removal, oil/water separation, desalination and water filtration).
The journal recognizes the complexity of sustainability issues, and therefore particularly welcomes innovative multidisciplinary research with wide impact.
Readership will include materials scientists, engineers, chemists, physicists, energy and environment researchers from academia and industry as well as policy makers.
