RSC Mechanochemistry

Advancing the impact of mechanochemistry from fundamental to applied innovations.

Co-Editors-in-Chief: James Batteas and Tomislav Friščić

Open Access: Gold

RSC Mechanochemistry offers you an inclusive and dedicated home for the ideas, scientific language and approaches that cut across the many disciplines mechanochemistry touches. Here we are seeking to build knowledge, as well as foster innovation and discovery at this forefront of chemistry. Whether you are seeking to understand the fundamentals of mechanochemistry, or you are excited by its applications and potential, this journal is for you.

ISSN: 2976-8683

Indexed in: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Journal Impact factor

First decision time (all)

34 days

First decision time (peer reviewed)

39 days

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Scope

RSC Mechanochemistry focuses on the publication of innovative research that advances the fundamental understanding and application of mechanical force for driving and controlling chemical reactions and materials transformations in the gas, liquid, and solid states.

Mechanochemistry is where chemistry and mechanics meet, and involves the interaction of mechanical energy with matter at the molecular, supramolecular, and bulk materials levels. It encompasses areas such as sustainable chemical synthesis and materials processing, tribochemistry, mechanical alloying, chemo/mechanical transduction (e.g. polymer mechanochemistry, photo-mechanochemistry), as well as mechanoresponsive biological molecules and materials.

As such, the journal aims to provide a central interdisciplinary forum for bringing these diverse communities together, leading to steadfast advances in this burgeoning field. Submissions on all aspects related to mechanochemistry and its role in enhancing and broadening sustainable chemistry are welcome.

The journal publishes original and significant cutting-edge research that is likely to be of wide general appeal. To be published, work must present a significant advance in mechanochemistry, and/or its applications. Particularly desirable are papers that contain a comparison with existing methods/approaches and demonstrate advantages/extensions over those methods.

Topics of interest

Coverage includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Methodologies (e.g. milling, extrusion, mechanical activation, high-pressure synthesis, sonication, force spectroscopy, molecular sensors), including reagents and new chemical strategies (e.g. organic, supramolecular, polymer, biochemical, coordination, inorganic, materials, catalysis)
Synthetic approaches (e.g. solvent-free, liquid-assisted grinding, vapor-assisted reactions (and general effects of atmosphere/environment on transformations), mechanical alloying, cocrystallisation, amorphisation, efficiency, catalysis, reaction control)
Multiscale mechanisms (e.g. reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, intermediates, interfacial reactions, mechanophores, mechanocatalysis, force-induced release, biological mechanosensing, fracture processes, etc.)
Theory and modelling (e.g. quantum mechanical, DFT, atomistic/molecular-level, molecular dynamics, coarse grained, machine learning, AI, discrete element modeling, process modeling)
Process and scale-up (e.g. process design, reactor design, intensification, additive manufacturing, efficiency, safety)
Cutting edge innovations (e.g. in synthetic scope, hybrid methods, i.e. mechanical force conjunction with light, heat, electrical charge, novel methods for synthesis)
Applications (e.g. electronics, dyes, consumer products, coatings, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, biomaterials, sensors, soft robotics, preservatives, building materials, chemicals for industry/agriculture/mining, and processes of relevance in geology and planter sciences)
Wide/broad impact studies (e.g. reaction discovery, accessing new materials, economic metrics, sustainability, democratization of synthesis)
Education and training in mechanochemistry (e.g. tutorials, curriculum development, lab demos, or lab course modules and simulations)

Information for authors

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