Welcome to Sustainability & Circularity NOW

Sustainability & Circularity NOW is an international single-anonymized peer-reviewed journal dedicated to addressing critical sustainability challenges and shaping an ambitious, truly interdisciplinary agenda to tackle global environmental crises. Sustainability & Circularity NOW focuses on solutions to enhance existing molecules, materials, and industrial processes, as well as groundbreaking discoveries of new, more sustainable molecules, materials, and synthetic procedures. The journal publishes studies on the recovery of building blocks from waste, the improvement of existing recycling technologies to enhance efficiency and ease of recycling, clean energy, and much more. It also features life cycle assessment studies and case studies aimed at fostering public and policy debate.

Sustainability & Circularity NOW is the perfect platform for bright minds to share their most revolutionary research in the field of Chemical Science and beyond.

This journal covers mainly but not exclusively the following research areas:

• Safe and Sustainable Design
• Product Design for Circularity
• Circular Design
• Circular Economy
• Sustainable Chemistry and Materials
• Green Manufacturing and Engineering (with specifications on green metrics, e.g. E-factor, Eco-scale ...)
• Biomass or Wastes as Raw Materials
• Biobased and Circular Plastics
• Zero Emissions Energy Carriers
• Metal Recovery and Recycling
• Alternative / Renewable Clean Energy
• Life-Cycle Assessment
• Environmentally Friendly Reagents and Feedstocks
• Sustainable Synthesis and Catalysis
• Sustainable Industrial Processes

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Sustainability & Circularity NOW aims to contribute toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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Sustainability & Circularity NOW generally uses Select Crowd Review for reviewing manuscripts. For crowd reviewing, we are constantly looking for new highly motivated crowd members. Please contact sustainability&circularitynow@thieme.de if you would like to become a member of the crowd.

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The following article types are published in Sustainability & Circularity NOW:

• Original Article: Full papers that cover original research which provide dependable research results with detailed experimental procedures and full characterization of all important new materials and/or compounds.
• Rapid Communication: Short articles (max. three pages) that report new research results with high significance and impact to the scientific community.
• Review and Short Review: Comprehensive overviews of a specific topic for the reader. Short Reviews have a 10 pages limit.
• Industrial Case Study & Policy Report (They can be also video formats.)

1. Industrial Case Study: A clear overview on the development of a specific company or industrial sector development highlighting the transition from linear production processes into circular ones. These articles are written by industrial and applied scientists to inform the readers about the latest challenges in their fields with a call for chemists to help resolve those challenges.
2. Policy Report: Reviews of a specific problem, offering practical and feasible solutions to the same with the goal of aiding policy decisions. These articles are written by people working in industry, academia, NGOs, or governmental agencies.

All contributions in this journal showcase outstanding innovations with significant impact, either across disciplines or within their specific fields of application.

Special attention should be paid to the Thieme Journal Policies.

As an open access publication, all articles in Sustainability & Circularity NOW are made freely available immediately upon publication for all to read and download from Thieme E-Journals.

All papers in Sustainability & Circularity NOW are published open access and are available online immediately upon publication without registration. Thieme publishes the papers under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license, which permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, and use the content for any lawful purpose.