Sustainable Materials and Technologies (SM&T) is an international, cross-disciplinary journal, published by Elsevier. SM&T publishes original full-length research articles and reviews in applied or fundamental science of nano-, micro-, meso-, and macro-scale aspects of materials and technologies for sustainable development with special attention to contributions that reduce the knowledge gap between materials and system designs.
Aims and Scope
SM&T acknowledges the interdisciplinary nature of scientific research on sustainable development and covers a broad and wide scope. It provides a scientific platform for physicists, mathematicians, chemists material scientists, engineers and other technical experts to contribute innovative works and combine the different disciplines in Sustainability Science and Technology related to:
• Resource-efficiency optimization (e.g., minimize amount of precious metals in product design)
• Innovative approaches with breakthrough performance for CO2 capture and utilization
• Innovative approaches with breakthrough performance for water purification
• Material recycling and materials recovery from complex products
• Material substitution to enable lower-impact production and/or use (e.g., composites)
• Life cycle analyses of sustainable technologies
• Energy sources for the long term
• Materials performance targets in the context of a system design
• Advanced manufacturing processes with reduced energy, water, and materials footprint
• Theory and simulation for sustainable environmental and energy applications
• Emerging materials for efficient sustainable energy and environment devices
• New concept and technology for sustainable energy and environmental devices and systems
Submissions focusing only on policy/decision making or economic aspects are unsuitable to SM&T.
Paper type
There are several options for authors to publish their recent works in SM&T:
• Fast track communication: Outstanding short articles reporting novel, recent and interesting works with high impact can benefit from accelerate publication procedure.
• Paper: Original scientific articles that are in line with the aims and scope of the journal.
• Notes: Brief descriptions of a technique, a small but important experiment or theoretical point, or a novel solution to a commonly encountered problem in sustainable science and technology fall in this category.
• Comments and replies: Critiques about a published article which should not be more than 500words (1 to 2 journal pages). The original authors will be invited to submit a reply.
• Invited topical reviews: Intended to summarize an accepted report on a recent development. Invited by the Editorial board and written by experts in related fields.
Editorial board
Editors
- L. Gaines
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA - S. Singh
NICE America Research Inc., Mountain View, California, USA - Z. Sun
Queensland University of Technology Chemistry Physics and Mechanical Engineering School, Australia - E. Velliou
University of Surrey Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Guildford, United Kingdom
Advisory Editorial Board
- D. Bauer
Office of Energy Analysis, Washington, United States - R.S. Berry
University of Chicago, Chicago, United States - A. Casini
Technical University of Munich Department of Chemistry, Garching, Germany - L. Dubois
Blackpak Inc, San Leandro, United States - C.E. Heckle
Corning Inc, Corning, United States - A.J. Hurd
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States - A. Ku
NICE America Research Inc, Mountain View, United States - I. Meglinski
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland - A. Reller
University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany - D. Sperling
University of California Davis, Davis, United States