Our ACS Au journals each serve a specific research community, publishing the latest in their fields with no barriers to access. Learn more about the unique offerings of each journal and browse key research highlights across the portfolio.
ACS Publications is home to a diverse portfolio of more than 80 peer-reviewed journals, from fully open access publications to hybrid journals offering a mix of open access and subscription-based content. Among these is our ACS Au family of journals, a series of fully open access publications led by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Shelley Minteer.
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We consider the ACS Au titles to be ‘community journals’ in that they each serve a specific research community with a clear scope, publish the latest research in their fields with no barriers to access, and provide a forum for likeminded researchers to connect across disciplines.
Discover more about each ACS Au journal and browse recent highlights across the entire portfolio below—all of which are free to read and download for anyone at any time.
Get to Know the ACS Au Family
ACS Engineering Au
Reports on the broad fields of applied chemistry, chemical engineering, and fuels, from industry to academia.
Get to know Vivek Ranade, the journal's Deputy Editor.
Reports on the broad fields of applied chemistry, chemical engineering, and fuels, from industry to academia.
Get to know Vivek Ranade, the journal's Deputy Editor.
ACS Environmental Au
Covers experimental research and theoretical results in all aspects of environmental science and technology, both pure and applied.
Get to know Xiang-Dong Li, the journal's Deputy Editor.
Covers experimental research and theoretical results in all aspects of environmental science and technology, both pure and applied.
Get to know Xiang-Dong Li, the journal's Deputy Editor.
ACS Materials Au
Publishes fundamental and applied research at the interface between materials and other disciplines, such as chemistry, engineering, and biology.
Get to know Stephanie Brock, the journal's Deputy Editor.
Publishes fundamental and applied research at the interface between materials and other disciplines, such as chemistry, engineering, and biology.
Get to know Stephanie Brock, the journal's Deputy Editor.
ACS Measurement Science Au
Covers experimental, computational, or theoretical research in all chemical measurement science areas.
Get to know Shelley Minteer, the journal's Editor-in-Chief/Deputy Editor.
Covers experimental, computational, or theoretical research in all chemical measurement science areas.
Get to know Shelley Minteer, the journal's Editor-in-Chief/Deputy Editor.
ACS Nanoscience Au
Publishes fundamental and applied research on nanoscience and nanotechnology research at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, medicine, materials science, physics, and engineering.
Get to know Ray Schaak, the journal's Deputy Editor.
Publishes fundamental and applied research on nanoscience and nanotechnology research at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, medicine, materials science, physics, and engineering.
Get to know Ray Schaak, the journal's Deputy Editor.
ACS Physical Chemistry Au
Reports fundamental and applied research on all aspects of physical chemistry.
Get to know Gemma Solomon, the journal's Deputy Editor.
Reports fundamental and applied research on all aspects of physical chemistry.
Get to know Gemma Solomon, the journal's Deputy Editor.
Each ACS Au journal is completely open access, meaning articles reach the widest possible audience. They provide a trusted and highly visible route to publication for authors who wish or need to publish their original research in fully open access journals. You can find out more about the ACS Au journals here.
The ACS Au journals opened for submissions in late 2020, and since then, they have published more than 900 original articles. We invite you to read key research highlights from the journals’ first three years below.
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Journal Articles
RadicalSAM.org: A Resource to Interpret Sequence-Function Space and Discover New Radical SAM Enzyme Chemistry
Nils Oberg, Timothy W. Precord, Douglas A. Mitchell, and John A. Gerlt
ACS Bio & Med Chem Au 2022 2 (1), 22-35
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomedchemau.1c00048
Durable Polylactic Acid (PLA)-Based Sustainable Engineered Blends and Biocomposites: Recent Developments, Challenges, and Opportunities
Neelima Tripathi, Manjusri Misra, and Amar K. Mohanty
ACS Engineering Au 2021 1 (1), 7-38
DOI: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.1c00011
Microplastics through the Lens of Colloid Science
Ahmed Al Harraq and Bhuvnesh Bharti
ACS Environmental Au 2022 2 (1), 3-10
DOI: 10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00016
Transition Metal Chalcogenides as a Versatile and Tunable Platform for Catalytic CO2 and N2 Electroreduction
Giorgio Giuffredi, Tristan Asset, Yuanchao Liu, Plamen Atanassov, and Fabio Di Fonz
ACS Materials Au 2021 1 (1), 6-36
DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialsau.1c00006
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy – A Tutorial
Alexandros Ch. Lazanas and Mamas I. Prodromidis
ACS Measurement Science Au 2023 3 (3), 162-193
DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.2c00070
Quantum Diamonds at the Beach: Chemical Insights into Silica Growth on Nanoscale Diamond using Multimodal Characterization and Simulation
Perla J. Sandoval, Karen Lopez, Andres Arreola, Anida Len, Nedah Basravi, Pomaikaimaikalani Yamaguchi, Rina Kawamura, Camron X. Stokes, Cynthia Melendrez, Davida Simpson, Sang-Jun Lee, Charles James Titus, Virginia Altoe, Sami Sainio, Dennis Nordlund, Kent Irwin, and Abraham Wolcott
ACS Nanoscience Au 2023
DOI: 10.1021/acsnanoscienceau.3c00033
Visible-Light-Driven C–S Bond Formation Based on Electron Donor–Acceptor Excitation and Hydrogen Atom Transfer Combined System
Tatsuhiro Uchikura, Yurina Hara, Kazushi Tsubono, and Takahiko Akiyama
ACS Organic & Inorganic Au 2021 1 (1), 23-28
DOI: 10.1021/acsorginorgau.1c00007
Theory of Hysteresis in Halide Perovskites by Integration of the Equivalent Circuit
Juan Bisquert, Antonio Guerrero, and Cedric Gonzales
ACS Physical Chemistry Au 2021 1 (1), 25-44
DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.1c00009
Data-Driven Methods for Accelerating Polymer Design
Tarak K. Patra
ACS Polymers Au 2022 2 (1), 8-26
DOI: 10.1021/acspolymersau.1c00035