Call for Proposals: Perspectives at JACS Au

Perspectives have been a staple manuscript type at JACS Au since launch, and they provide authors with the opportunity to share their personal perspective on the state of the art in a given area of research in chemistry and allied fields. While these manuscripts are typically invited by the editors, prospective authors may also submit a Perspective proposal for consideration by the editorial team.

What Are Perspectives at JACS Au?

Perspectives are personal reviews of a field or area by one or a small team of authors, and they are focused rather than comprehensive. Perspective authors are asked to assess the current status of the field with an emphasis on identifying key advances as well as those advances that are still needed in the future. The JACS Au Perspective should reflect the current literature, including key contributors and references, but is not a comprehensive review and primarily serves to inspire and help direct future research efforts.

What JACS Au Editors Look for in a Perspective

Perspectives at JACS Au should be focused assessments of a research topic of broad interest to the chemistry community. They should concisely communicate the impact of the chosen topic, touch base with the state of the art, offer a distinct and personal view of the topic, and should seek to inspire and direct future efforts to further advance the field.

How to Submit a Perspective

Perspectives are invited by the editorial team, and researchers can submit proposals for topics about which they wish to write. If your proposal is approved, you will be invited to submit a Perspective for consideration at JACS Au.

Authors who are interested in contributing a Perspective to JACS Au are encouraged to complete this form. If you have any questions, please contact the Managing Editor at managing.editor@jacsau.acs.org.

JACS Au is a fully open access journal, which means research published in the journal will be immediately freely available for anyone to read in perpetuity. We recognize that different authors have different levels of access to funding for Article Publication Charges (APCs). Therefore, evaluation of proposals will be entirely based on merit and not on financial resources. We offer a range of options to support authors with open access publishing, including through the ACS special country pricing policy, and ACS Institutional Open Access Agreements.

Highlighted Perspective Examples in JACS Au

Thiol-Mediated Uptake
Quentin Laurent, Rémi Martinent, Bumhee Lim, Anh-Tuan Pham, Takehiro Kato, Javier López-Andarias, Naomi Sakai, and Stefan Matile*

Through-Space Interactions in Clusteroluminescence
Haoke Zhang*, and Ben Zhong Tang*

Crossing the Valley of Death: From Fundamental to Applied Research in Electrolysis
Daniel Siegmund*, Sebastian Metz, Volker Peinecke, Terence E. Warner, Carsten Cremers, Anna Grevé, Tom Smolinka, Doris Segets*, and Ulf-Peter Apfel*

Linear, Graft, and Beyond: Multiblock Copolymers as Next-Generation Compatibilizers
Jeffrey L. Self, Aristotle J. Zervoudakis, Xiayu Peng, William R. Lenart, Christopher W. Macosko, and Christopher J. Ellison*

The Evolving Nature of Biocatalysis in Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Scott P. France*, Russell D. Lewis, and Carlos A. Martinez

Designing Microbial Cell Factories for the Production of Chemicals
Jae Sung Cho, Gi Bae Kim, Hyunmin Eun, Cheon Woo Moon, and Sang Yup Lee*

Trade-off between Zincophilicity and Zincophobicity: Toward Stable Zn-Based Aqueous Batteries
Hongpeng Li, Ruizheng Zhao, Wanhai Zhou, Lipeng Wang, Wei Li, Dongyuan Zhao, and Dongliang Chao*

The Interactive Dynamics of Nanocatalyst Structure and Microenvironment during Electrochemical CO₂ Conversion
Sunmoon Yu, Sheena Louisia, and Peidong Yang*

From Platform to Knowledge Graph: Evolution of Laboratory Automation
Jiaru Bai, Liwei Cao, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, Alexei A. Lapkin*, and Markus Kraft*

The Quest to Simulate Excited-State Dynamics of Transition Metal Complexes
J. Patrick Zobel*, and Leticia González*

Exploring the Reactivity of Polyoxometalates toward Proteins: From Interactions to Mechanistic Insights
David E. Salazar Marcano, Nada D. Savić, Shorok A. M. Abdelhameed, Francisco de Azambuja, and Tatjana N. Parac-Vogt*