Chem Circularity

Chem Circularity is a Cell Press journal publishing cutting-edge insights and research to advance the pursuit of closed-loop solutions. The journal publishes insights and innovations across disciplines that transform linear processes into sustainable, closed-loop systems with an emphasis on reduction, redesign, reuse, and recycling.

Chem Circularity is passionate about highlighting the advances and fostering connections between academic, industrial, and governmental stakeholders while considering the importance of multiple disciplines and sectors to sustainable and circular chemistry and engineering. Researchers and practitioners are actively pursuing circularity in chemistry, engineering, materials science, biotechnology, industrial ecology, environmental science, business, public policy, and beyond. Accordingly, Chem Circularity aims to publish across disciplines to ensure the responsible production and consumption of the chemicals and materials that underpin our world.

Chem Circularity publishes high-quality research, reviews, and perspectives, as well as commentaries and other short-format pieces, that consider developments across all stages of a product’s life cycle. The journal encourages the submission of significant advances in sustainable and circular chemistry and engineering (spanning agricultural chemicals, basic chemicals, specialty chemicals, consumer products, and pharmaceuticals). It also considers content that advances circularity in related sectors, including energy, construction, water, food, healthcare, and transportation, while remaining grounded in circular chemistry, materials, and engineering innovations.

Topics that are of particular interest to Chem Circularity include but are not limited to:

• Circular chemical and materials systems

• Circular bioprocesses

• Waste reduction, management, reuse, and valorization

• Safe and sustainable-by-design processes

• Renewable feedstocks and catalysis

• Recycling and upcycling processes

• Redesign of chemicals and materials for circularity

• Resource recovery through separation chemistry, biology, and materials science

• Critical mineral supply chains, recovery, and recycling

• Process modeling, life cycle assessment, and techno-economic analysis

• Value-chain management and material-flow analyses

• Resource efficiency and system decarbonization

• Industrial ecology and symbiosis

• Governance, legislation, and policy for circularity

• Circular economy and societal implications

Chem Circularity is committed to the high-quality publishing values synonymous with the Cell Press brand and strives to publish exceptional content relevant to practitioners of sustainable chemistry, engineering, and biotechnology, and provide a fair, rapid, and rigorous peer-review process via a dedicated team of in-house professional editors.