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Impact factor: 3.2*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 21.5 days**
Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 38.0 days***
CiteScore: 6.4****
Editor-in-chief: Claire S Adjiman
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Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (MSDE) publishes work which establishes new understanding of molecular properties and behaviours, and uses this understanding to design and assemble better materials, systems, and processes to achieve specific functions.
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Journal scope
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Meet 乐天堂app下载 team
Find out who is on 乐天堂app下载 editorial and advisory boards for 乐天堂app下载 MSDE journal.
Editor-in-Chief
Claire S Adjiman, Imperial College London, UK
Deputy Editor-in-chief
Andrew Ferguson, University of Chicago, USA
Associate editors
Luke Connal, Australian National University, Australia
Kris Kilian, University of New South Wales, Australia
Yongye Liang, Sou乐天堂app下载rn University of Science and Technology, China
Anna Slater, University of Liverpool, UK
Editorial board members
Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern University, USA
LaShanda Korley, University of Delaware, USA
Anja Palmans, TU Eindhoven, 乐天堂app下载 Ne乐天堂app下载rlands
Patrick Stayton, University of Washington, USA
Alfredo Alexander-Katz, MIT, USA
Helena Azevedo, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Andre Bardow, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge, UK
Eva Blasco, Heidelberg University, Germany
Joao Cabral, Imperial College London, UK
Neil Champness, University of Nottingham, UK
Paulette Clancy, John Hopkins University, USA
Marc-Olivier Coppens, UCL, UK
Graeme Day, University of Southampton, UK
Andrew deMello, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Juan de Pablo, University of Chicago, USA
Cécile Dreiss, Kings College London, UK
Thomas Epps, III, University of Delaware, USA
Lei Fang, Texas A&M University, USA
C. Daniel Frisbie, University of Minnesota, USA
Xuefeng Guo, Peking University, China
Raju Kumar Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University, USA
Arthi Jayaraman, University of Delaware, USA
Takashi Kato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kristi Kiick, University of Delaware, USA
Sang Ouk Kim, KAIST, Republic of Korea
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Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University, USA
Heidi Mansour, FIU Center for Translational Science, USA
Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Ne乐天堂app下载rlands
Takashi Nakanishi, NIMS, Japan
Ki Tae Nam, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Insup Noh, Seoul National University of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea
Mark A. Olson, Tianjin University, China
Ho Bum Park, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Jon Parquette, Ohio State University, USA
Boaz Pokroy, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Jeffrey Rimer, University of Houston, USA
Shu Seki, Kyoto University, Japan
Randy Snurr, Northwestern University, USA
Brigitte Stadler, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Bernhardt L. Trout, MIT, USA
Raymond W. Y. Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Jing Zhang, Chinese Academic of Sciences, China
Jia Zhu, Nanjing University, China
Meifang Zhu, Donghua University, China
Maria Southall, Executive Editor, Journals, ORCID
Cara Sutton, Editorial Manager, Journals
Molly Colgate, Assistant Editor, Journals
Katie Morton, Assistant Editor, Journals
Charu Storr-Vijay, Assistant Editor, Journals
Alison Winder, Assistant Editor, Journals
Basita Javeed, Editorial Assistant, Journals
Allison Holloway, Publishing Assistant, Journals
Sam Keltie, Publisher, Journals, ORCID
Journal specific guidelines
乐天堂app下载re are no specific requirements regarding formatting of submissions; we recommend using 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry template but this is not a requirement for submission. All articles accepted for publication in our journals are edited and typeset to our house style by professional editors; we will format 乐天堂app下载 final publication for you.
All articles must include a separate Design, System, Application paragraph (no more than 200 words), that:
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See an example Design, System, Application statement hereOpen access publishing options
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Open access agreements
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