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New Sections in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research or the convenience of our readers, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research assigns each research article to one of six different topical sections. These sections are: Applied Chemistry; Materials and Interfaces; Process Design and Control; Kinetics, Catalysis, and Reaction Engineering; Separations; and General Research. Authors select one of these sections at the time of manuscript submission. These sections have served the journal well for many years, and starting with this issue, we add new sections for Bioengineering and for Thermodynamics, Transport, and Fluid Mechanics. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research has long published articles in these general areas, but previously there had been no recognizable section into which these related articles could be collected. Adding a section on Bioengineering acknowledges the continued importance of biology and related life sciences in chemical engineering research and practice. This new section would be appropriate for articles dealing with biomolecular engineering, biochemical engineering, biological engineering, bioprocess engineering, and other articles that deal with the interface between life sciences and engineering. A quick scan of recently published articles show contributions dealing with biocompatible materials, enzyme immobilization, protein fractionation, and drug delivery systems. Articles of this type would fit well in the Bioengineering section. In the past, articles dealing with solubilities, phase behavior, analysis of mass transfer in engineered devices, and experimental and computational studies of rheology or mixing of different fluids in different vessels and different geometries would be assigned to the General Research section. The new section on Thermodynamics, Transport, and Fluid Mechanics will now provide a suitable and readily identifiable home for research in these core areas of chemical engineering as they are applied to microfluidic systems, ionic liquids, new sorbents, CO2 adsorption and absorption, process intensification, and other topics of current interest in chemical engineering and applied chemistry. We trust that these new sections will give better visibility to the articles that we publish in bioengineering and in thermodynamics, transport, and fluid mechanics. Please use these new sections when submitting manuscripts for consideration by Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. We look forward to publishing and better promoting the exciting research being done in the areas represented by these new sections.
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Phillip E. Savage, Editor in Chief
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Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and are not necessarily the views of the ACS. Published: April 9, 2014 © 2014 American Chemical Society
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie5011405 | Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2014, 53, 5623−5623
