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Editor-in-Chief: Federico Rosei
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Gold open access, APCs currently waived
Time to first decision (peer-reviewed only): 32.0 days**
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Meet RSC Applied Interfaces's Editor-in-Chief and board members.
Editor-in-chief
University of Trieste, Italy
Associate Editor
Purdue University, USA
Associate Editor
Peking University, China
Associate Editor
Swansea University, UK
Associate Editor
Colorado School of Mines & NREL, USA
Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Viola Birss, University of Calgary, Canada
Victor M. Castaño, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Zhongwei Chen, University of Waterloo, Canada
Yu Fang, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Paolo Fornasiero, University of Trieste, Italy
Carlos F. O. Graeff, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil
Vicki H. Grassian, University of California San Diego, USA
Giridhar U. Kulkarni, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
Xing Yi Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Xiaogang Liu, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Maria Antonietta Loi, University of Groningen, 乐天堂app下载 Ne乐天堂app下载rlands
Malik Maaza, i乐天堂app下载mba Labs and UNISA, South Africa
Sanjay Mathur, University of Cologne, Germany
Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University, USA
Paolo Samorì, University of Strasbourg, France
Clara Santato, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Fiorenzo Vetrone, Université du Québec, Canada
Lianzhou Wang, University of Queensland, Australia
Vivian W.-W. Yam, 乐天堂app下载 University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Shu-Hong Yu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Karim Zaghib, Concordia University, Canada
Jeremy Allen, Executive Editor, ORCID:
Hannah Kerr, Deputy Editor, ORCID:
Rosie Hague, Editorial Assistant
Lilybelle (Lily) Wyatt, Editorial Manager, ORCID
Zifei Lu, Assistant Editor, ORCID
Ashley McGovern, Assistant Editor
Sean Browner, Assistant Editor
Paul Scott, Assistant Editor
Robert Griffiths, Publishing Assistant
Neil Hammond, Publisher, ORCID:
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