Calls for papers

This collection will explore scalable solutions for implementation of circularity principles in the built environment, including infrastructure and the building stock.

In this collection, we aim to showcase cutting-edge research and developments that advance the efficiency and sustainability of wind energy systems, from turbine design and performance optimization to conversion, maintenance, multifunctional wind turbine foundations, and end-of-life management.

With this cross-journal Collection, we invite manuscripts that highlight continual or real-time sensing systems of any form, primarily for arable farming or crop production.

This collection between Nature Communications, Communications Engineering, and Scientific Reports aims to promote developments in thermal transport phenomena and management technologies that enable efficient device operation.

This cross-journal Collection brings together research at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, neuromorphic hardware, and robotics with a focus on how insights from brain function can inspire the design of more adaptive, efficient, and intelligent systems. We welcome submissions that explore neurobiologically-inspired models, architectures, and learning algorithms that have the potential to enhance embodied AI and robotic systems.

In this collection we aim to publish exciting advances in the capability of generative AI methods and their application directions within a broad mechanical engineering scope.

This Collection highlights the research advancing the design, control, monitoring of microgrids and relevant components, including the coverage of different scales of the electric grids, challenges with integrating various renewable energy sources, and life cycle analyses.

In this collection, we aim to bring together the advances in sustainable electronics ranging from the use of eco-friendly device design and fabrication methods, non-toxic/biodegradable materials, to end-of-life ideas for recycling and reusing electronic device components.

With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Engineering and Scientific Reports invite manuscripts reporting reliable strategies for (down-)scaling, p-doping and contact engineering of 2D transistors.

This collection will explore the various research directions in building and optimizing energy devices, as well as opening up new applications for such devices via 3D printing technology.