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As we enter our third volume, we take a moment to celebrate chemical engineering’s past and look ahead to many more exciting years for both the field and the journal.
July 2025 marked the centennial anniversary of the Fischer−Tropsch process. This Editorial celebrates this milestone and looks ahead to the next era of Fischer−Tropsch technological innovation.
This Editorial showcases recent work on tandem reactor design, highlighting the nuanced role that reactor configuration can play in enabling efficient chemical transformations.
In this Editorial, we outline our interest in biological systems research, highlighting how fundamental chemical engineering principles can help translate biophysical complexity into practical, transferable design strategies.
Commercialization is a key milestone in chemical process design and product development. In this Editorial, we emphasize the importance of incorporating industrial expertise and introduce a new article format to support this aim: Down to Business.
Chemical separations are undergoing a period of rapid advancement, driven by both environmental pressures and scientific breakthroughs. From electrochemical alternatives to advanced materials and intensified processes, this Focus issue highlights how innovations across scales are shaping the future of chemical separations science and technology.
Transparency in publishing is a crucial, if subtle, component of scientific discourse. In this Editorial, we highlight some of the ways that the journal is supporting transparency throughout the publishing process.
The generation of plastic waste is a growing problem, and its impact on human and environmental health is yet to be fully uncovered. This Editorial discusses the need for a systems-level approach to achieve truly sustainable plastic waste management solutions.
In this Editorial, we highlight our dedicated monthly column, By the Numbers, which covers dimensional analysis and scaling as applied to chemical, biological and numerical processes and systems.
This month’s Focus issue explores the intersection of robotics, automation and chemical process design. In this Editorial, we cover three common themes from the issue: boosting scientific productivity, bolstering scientific creativity, and driving reciprocal progress between chemical engineering and generalized methods in automated system design.
Membrane-based separations are a cornerstone of modern chemical engineering. This Editorial reiterates our interest in all aspects of the topic, highlighting some recent contributions in this issue of Nature Chemical Engineering.
This month in Nature Chemical Engineering, we present a Focus issue that showcases the multiscale, multiphysics landscape of modern reaction engineering in an era defined by an urgent need for sustainable chemicals production.
In this Editorial, we discuss how we consider advances in chemical engineering at the journal, taking into account metrics that can be human-, time- and context-dependent.
As we celebrate the journal’s inaugural volume, we reflect on a year of exciting content with several highlights from 2024 and look towards the future of both the field and the journal.
Considering consumer behavioral norms is important to sustainable design. This Editorial discusses the need to incorporate behavioral patterns into product design and the role that the chemical engineering community can play in fostering a more informed understanding of sustainability among consumers.
Work at the systems level plays a pivotal part in driving engineering advances. In this Editorial, we discuss the role of the Analysis research article format in accelerating breakthroughs in systems engineering science.
Molecular thermodynamics emerged from the convergence of classical thermodynamics with molecular chemistry and physics. In this Editorial, we reflect on the impact of molecular thermodynamics in chemical engineering and share our excitement for future developments in this field.
Mass, energy and momentum transfer impact nearly all aspects of chemical engineering. This Editorial reiterates our interest in transport processes, with some recent highlights from reaction engineering.
