Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering is devoted to bringing forth short and focused review articles written by experts on current advances in different areas of chemical engineering. Only invited review articles will be published.

The goals of each review article in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering are:
1. To acquaint the reader/researcher with the most important recent papers in the given topic.
2. To provide the reader with the views/opinions of the expert in each topic.

The reviews are short (about 2500 words or 5-10 printed pages with figures) and serve as an invaluable source of information for researchers, teachers, professionals and students. The reviews also aim to stimulate exchange of ideas among experts.

Themed sections:
Each review will focus on particular aspects of one of the following themed sections of chemical engineering:
1. Nanotechnology
2. Energy and environmental engineering
3. Biotechnology and bioprocess engineering
4. Biological engineering (covering tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery)
5. Separation engineering (covering membrane technologies, adsorbents, desalination, distillation etc.)
6. Materials engineering (covering biomaterials, inorganic especially ceramic materials, nanostructured materials).
7. Process systems engineering
8. Reaction engineering and catalysis.

Selection of the topics to be reviewed:
Section Editors of each themed section are authorities in the field and are selected by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasized. Section Editors commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected. Each issue of the journal will focus on two themed sections. There will be four issues of the journal per year covering each themed section once per year.

Reviews:
Authors write short review articles in which they present most recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous three to four years. The review articles undergo internal review by the Section Editors, Editorial Board members and the Editors.

Editorial Overview:
Section Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments.

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

  • Professor Kamalesh Sirkar
    Dept. of Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Biotech & Bioprocess

  • Michael Betenbaugh
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Nigel Titchener-Hooker
    University College London (UCL), London, UK

Biological Engineering

  • Sharon Gerecht
    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Balaji Narasimhan
    Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

Energy and Environmental Engineering

  • Heriberto Cabezas
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Cincinnatti, Ohio, USA, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
  • Vasilios Manousiouthakis
    University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Materials Engineering

  • Thein Kyu
    University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA
  • Jainagesh Sekhar
    University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Nanotechnology

  • Hong Yang
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
  • Huachun Zeng
    National University of Singapore, Singapore

Process Systems Engineering

  • Mahmoud El-Halwagi
    Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
  • Ka Ming Ng
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Reaction Engineering and Catalysis

  • Marc-Olivier Coppens
    University College London (UCL), London, England, UK
  • Theodore Tsotsis
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Separation Engineering

  • Winston Ho
    The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
  • Kang Li
    Imperial College London, London, UK

Editorial Board

  • Alexis Bell
    University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
  • Tai-Shung CHUNG
    National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
    Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
  • Ferenc Friedler
    Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
  • Rafiqul Gani
    PSE for SPEED, Denmark
  • Rafael Hernandez
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
  • Winston Ho
    The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
  • Wei-Shou Hu
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • Dilhan M. Kalyon
    Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
  • Boris Khusid
    New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • Konstantinos Konstantopoulos
    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Michael. R. Ladisch
    Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
  • Robert S. Langer
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Sang Yup Lee
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, The Republic of Korea
  • Kang Li
    Imperial College London, London, UK
  • James C. Liao
    University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Guy Marin
    Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium
  • Richard Noble
    University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • Donald Paul
    University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
  • Nicholas Peppas
    University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
  • Sotiris Pratsinis
    Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Doraiswami Ramkrishna
    Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
  • Thomas Russell
    University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
  • Jaap Schouten
    Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Subhas Sikdar
    National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • Randall Snurr
    Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
  • Greg Stephanopoulos
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Chi Tien
    Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
  • Theodore Tsotsis
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Norman Wagner
    University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
  • Ralph Yang
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  • Masakazu Yoshikawa
    Piotrek Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan
  • Huachun Zeng
    National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Andrew Zydney
    Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA