Chemistry & materials science

Throughout human history, the fields of chemistry and materials science have been at the frontier of science and technology, and as global needs evolve these disciplines allow us to adapt ideas into reality.

Advancements in 3-D printing and biomaterials have transformed medical care needs. Nanomaterials and electrochemistry have advanced solar and fuel-cell technologies and answered our urgent need for more sustainable and efficient energy production and storage. Bio-inspired membranes and nanostructures offer hope in providing clean water to the growing world population and the application of machine learning in these fields will provide opportunities for solving complex global challenges. The Chemistry and Materials Science eBook Collection serves as a nod to these fields that so dramatically shape our society and aim to bridge the gap between theory and application to make a real impact on the world we live in.

303 titles in the collection

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Sustainable Development Goals Programme

Springer Nature's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Programme aims to connect the researchers who are tackling the world’s toughest challenges with the practitioners in policy and business who desperately need those insights to achieve their goals in improving the world, by making our publishing activities more visible to our key communities through a variety of channels.

The Chemistry & Materials Science eBook collection aligns with Sustainable Development Goals:

2 Zero Hunger

3 Good Health and Well Being

4 Quality Education 

6 Clean Water and Sanitation

7 Affordable and Clean Energy

9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

12 Responsible Consumption and Production

13 Climate Action

14 Life Below Water

15 Life on Land


Subdisciplines

  • Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
  • Materials Engineering
  • Nanotechnology
  • Catalysis
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Polymer Sciences
  • Medicinal Chemistry

About the editors

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Sofia Costa, Senior Editor, completed her PhD in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Minho (Portugal) in 2013. After working as a Lateral Flow Assay R&D manager in Madrid (Spain), she joined Springer in 2016 in the Heidelberg office (Germany), managing a portfolio of chemistry book and journal titles. As of 2019, she is a member of the global chemistry book team, and she has been publishing a wide range of book types including monographs, edited volumes, review series, textbooks and major reference in the fields of Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Medicinal Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry & Food Chemistry.

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Mayra Castro is a Senior Editor at the Applied Sciences Editorial team at Springer in Heidelberg. As a PhD chemist, she performed research in labs across Brazil, Spain, Germany and South Korea on a variety of materials, including metals, plastic, ceramics, carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles and coatings. After transitioning from academia to scientific publishing, she established a program of books and journals at Springer, in topics ranging from commercialization of graphene, to additive manufacturing and nanomedicine, in collaboration with top scientists and societies.