Issue Introduction:

Sustainable Catalysis (SC) is announcing a Call for Papers for the topic “Sustainable Catalysis for Environmental Remediation and Upcycling”. Growing environmental pollution, resource depletion, and waste generation are driving the development of sustainable catalytic technologies that can simultaneously address environmental challenges and promote resource recovery. Sustainable Catalysis provides versatile approaches for the selective transformation of pollutants, waste-derived molecules, and biomass-derived feedstocks into benign, useful, or value-added products, while reducing energy and material consumption.

We aim to bring together original research articles and critical reviews covering recent advances in sustainable catalysis for environmental remediation, waste upcycling, and resource recovery. Contributions employing diverse catalytic approaches, including electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, thermocatalysis, piezocatalysis, and other emerging catalytic technologies, are welcome. Studies addressing pollutant conversion, waste and biomass valorization, synthesis of reactive chemicals for environmental applications, fundamental catalytic mechanisms, and catalytic reactor and device development are particularly encouraged. Contributions integrating fundamental catalytic science with process engineering and practical applications toward efficient, low-carbon, and circular processes are especially welcome.

Topics of Interest Include (but are not limited to):

• Sustainable Catalytic Transformation of Organic Molecules: Sustainable catalytic oxidation, reduction, and selective upgrading of waste-, biomass-, and renewable-derived molecules, including plastic-derived ethylene glycol, biodiesel-derived glycerol, and biomass-derived platform chemicals, toward value-added products
• Catalytic Synthesis of Reactive Chemicals for Environmental Applications: Sustainable catalytic production of oxidants, reductants, and reactive intermediates, such as H₂O₂ and hydroxylamine, for environmental remediation and waste valorization
• Catalytic Environmental Remediation: Sustainable catalytic transformation and removal of persistent and emerging contaminants in water, air, and soil, including selective bond activation, detoxification, mineralization, and resource recovery
• Catalytic Nitrogen Conversion and Recovery: Catalytic removal, reduction, and valorization of nitrate and other nitrogen-containing pollutants toward benign or value-added products
• Fundamental Mechanisms in Sustainable Environmental Catalysis: Active sites, reaction intermediates, reaction pathways, structure–activity relationships, charge/mass transfer, catalyst reconstruction, and catalyst–substrate interactions under realistic conditions
• Catalytic Reactor and Device Development: Flow, membrane, electrochemical, photoelectrochemical, and other intensified catalytic systems for efficient, durable, and scalable environmental applications
• Integrated and Circular Catalytic Processes: Integration of sustainable catalysis with renewable energy, waste streams, separation, and process intensification toward energy-efficient, low-carbon, and circular processes

Please refer to the Instructions for Authors for formatting and submission details. We warmly invite colleagues to submit manuscripts relevant to these themes to share their latest research findings and insights, and to contribute to the successful publication of this issue.

Academic Editor:

Dr. Hongyuan Yang
Department of Material Chemistry for Catalysis, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin, Germany
Email: hongyuan.yang@helmholtz-berlin.de

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed following the established policies and procedures of the journal. The final papers will be selected for publication depending on the results of the peer-review process and the reviews of the Academic Editors and Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief or Academic Editors without any conflict of interest with any of the authors.