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This Editorial highlights recent strategies for bridging electrochemical half-reactions that have been deliberately separated into distinct environments, showcasing how creative recoupling approaches can unlock improved performance and new chemistries beyond the reach of conventional cell designs.
Xiaotian Lu and Ayusman Sen discuss the principles underlying the design of active particle populations with distributed functionality that collectively perform complex tasks.
Electrochemical synthesis typically occurs in coupled systems, in which anodic and cathodic half-reactions proceed simultaneously in the same cell. This Comment discusses strategies that can decouple half-reactions to achieve modular electrochemical synthesis for flexible chemical manufacturing.
This Comment discusses the common practice of measuring selectivity from the change of feed composition, which faces critical challenges of severe error propagation and loss of mechanistic insight. These limitations can be overcome by evaluating selectivity from the receiving solution.
Carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies have attracted substantial attention as a potential approach to climate mitigation. In this Editorial, we examine the need for both feasibility assessments and technical innovations in advancing emerging technologies such as carbon capture.
Converting CO2 into solid carbon materials provides both long-term carbon sequestration and the production of value-added products. This Comment compares reactor configurations guided by thermodynamic analysis, evaluates the market volume and morphology control of different carbon products, and identifies hurdles and opportunities for scaled-up deployment.
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.
Yushan Yan from the University of Delaware and Versogen, Inc. talks to Nature Chemical Engineering about his path to developing and scaling up PiperION, a globally leading anion-exchange membrane for electrochemical applications.
Andrew Rosen discusses the big data demands of artificial intelligence models in atomistic modeling, and the future when benchmarks and dataset sizes begin to plateau.
Kara Fong reflects on bridging the molecular and continuum scales of ion transport, showing how microscopic fluctuations shape device-scale performance in batteries.
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.
