MSDE
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Editors-in-Chief: Claire S Adjiman and Andrew Ferguson
Open Access: Hybrid

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ISSN: 2058-9689
Indexed in: Web of Science, Scopus
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3.2 (2024)
First decision time (all)
21.5 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
38 days
Scope
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Andrew Ferguson, Deputy Editor-in-chief
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Alfredo Alexander-Katz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Helena Azevedo
Queen Mary University of London
Andre Bardow
ETH Zürich
Jeremy Baumberg
University of Cambridge
Eva Blasco
Heidelberg University
Joao Cabral
Imperial College London
Neil Champness
University of Nottingham
Paulette Clancy
Johns Hopkins University
Marc-Olivier Coppens
UCL
Andrew deMello
ETH Zürich
Juan de Pablo
University of Chicago
Cécile Dreiss
King's College London
Thomas Epps III
University of Delaware
Lei Fang
Texas A&M University
C. Daniel Frisbie
University of Minnesota
Xuefeng Guo
Peking University
Raju Kumar Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Sarah Heilshorn
Stanford University
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University of Delaware
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University of Tokyo
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University of Delaware
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Texas A&M University
Bert Meijer
Eindhoven University of Technology
Takashi Nakanishi
NIMS
Ki Tae Nam
Seoul National University
Insup Noh
Seoul National University of Science & Technology
Mark A. Olson
Tianjin University
Jon Parquette
Ohio State University
Boaz Pokroy
Israel Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Rimer
University of Houston
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Jing Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jia Zhu
Nanjing University
Meifang Zhu
Donghua University
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