Dear Colleagues,

I’m pleased to inform you that open access journal /Catalysts/ (ISSN 2073-4344, Impact Factor: 3.444) is planning to publish a Special Issue on the topic of "Trends in Catalytic Advanced Oxidation Processes". The submission deadline is 30 March 2020.

This Special Issue is dedicated to novel achievements in the field of catalytic advanced oxidation processes. The contributions should be related to the listed topics:

· Catalytic processes in water and wastewater treatment

· Developments in Fenton-like AOPs

· Activation of Persulfates for AOPs

· Formation of sulfate radicals

· Catalytic cavitation-based AOPs (hydrodynamic cavitation and acoustic cavitation)

· Sonocatalysts

· Catalytic ozonation

· Photocatalysts—including visible light and UV applications

· Catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO)

· Catalytic–electrochemical AOPs

· Carbon catalysts for AOPs

· Nanocatalysts

· Risk of by-product formation during water and wastewater treatment

· Developments in process control of catalytic AOPs (analytical methods, chromatographic, and spectroscopic techniques)

· Methods of catalysts characterization

· Post-process assessment of effluents toxicity

· Application of nanobubbles in AOPs

· Economic analysis of catalytic AOPs application and catalysts life cycle assessment (LCO)

· Industrial catalytic wastewater treatment

· Modelling and optimization of catalytic processes

· Green chemistry aspects in catalytic water and wastewater treatment

Detailed information regarding this issue, please follow the link below to the Special Issue website at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/catalysts/special_issues/catalytic_aop

By publishing with Catalysts, you will take advantage of the following attributes:

*Fast Publication*:

First decision provided to authors approximately 13.4 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 5.5 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the second half of 2018).

The papers will be processed immediately upon receipt. A Special Issue (SI) is not an issue of the journal. It is a collection of articles on a common topic. These articles are published in the regular issues of the journal when they are accepted (no delay) but additionally labelled with the Special Issue name (including a link). A single click on the link will organize all the articles on the Special Issue webpage.

*High Impact*:

According to Web of Science data, the impact factor for Catalysts 2018 was 3.444. The five-year impact factor was 3.808. Catalysts now ranks in Q2 of the "Chemical, Physical" category.

According to Scopus data, the CiteScore for Catalysts 2018 was 3.85, which ranks it in Q1 of the “Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry” category, and Q2 of the “Chemical Engineering, Catalysis” category.

*Low Article Processing Fees*:

To enable the journal to make all of its content open access, Catalysts levies an article processing charge (APC) of CHF 1600 for each manuscript accepted after peer review in 2019 which compares well with other journals.

Please note that for papers submitted after 31 December 2019 an APC of 1800 CHF applies.

*Discount*:

A discount may apply if your institute has established an institutional membership with MDPI. For more information, see http://www.mdpi.com/about/memberships.

If you have helped review for MDPI journals and got a discount voucher, you can use it.

In order to plan for the whole paper project, I appreciate you could inform me within three weeks as to whether you would be willing to contribute. I also encourage you to send a short abstract to me ([email protected]) or to Caroline Zhan ([email protected]) in advance.

Sincerely hope this invitation will receive your favorable consideration.

Best regards,

Guest Editor

Prof. Grzegorz Boczkaj, PhD. Sc. Eng. Assoc. Prof.

Email: [email protected]

Department of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology, Faculty of

Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland

Caroline Zhan

Assistant Editor

Email: [email protected]

Catalysts (IF 3.444, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/catalysts)