Frontiers - Engineering and Technology

📣 Call for submissions! We’re inviting contributions to our Research Topic: 🔌 Impact of Converter-Interfaced Generators on Power System Stability — published in Frontiers in Smart Grids 🗓️ Manuscript deadline: 2 July 2026 | Submissions are open now ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Edited by four internationally recognised experts in power systems: 🎓 Nikos Hatziargyriou — National Technical University of Athens, Greece 🎓 Goran Strbac — Imperial College London, United Kingdom 🎓 João Peças Lopes — INESC TEC, University of Porto, Portugal 🎓 Aris Dimeas — National Technical University of Athens, Greece ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The energy transition is changing the physics of our power grids. As wind turbines and solar PV displace conventional generators, Converter-Interfaced Generators (CIGs) are eroding system inertia, weakening the grid’s ability to resist frequency and voltage disturbances. The challenge has shifted: it’s no longer just about connecting renewables, but keeping the system stable when they dominate it. Grid-forming (GFM) and grid-following (GFL) converters offer a path forward — yet how to design, allocate, and incentivise them remains an open question. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We welcome submissions on: ⚡ CIG effects on power system dynamic behaviour (frequency, voltage, transients) 🔄 Inertia estimation and synthetic inertia provision in converter-dominated grids 🎛️ GFL and GFM converter controls for frequency and voltage support 🔀 Interactions and optimal siting of GFL vs GFM converters 💰 Market mechanisms and financial incentives for ancillary services from CIGs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ All articles are published open access and freely available to the global research community. 👉 Submit or learn more: https://lnkd.in/eK7Wm4dJ #SmartGrids #PowerSystems #EnergyTransition #RenewableEnergy #GridStability #GridFormingConverters #PowerElectronics #ConverterControl #OpenAccess #FrontiersInSmartGrids

🌱 Now open for submissions   We are pleased to launch the Research Topic “Bio-Based Flexible Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion” in Frontiers in Batteries and Electrochemistry, led by Topic Editors Dr. Syed Comail Abbas, Dr. MUHAMMAD ASAD ZIAEE, and Dr. Muhammad Ali Khan   This collection welcomes research on sustainable, bio-based, and biomass-derived flexible materials for next-generation energy storage and conversion systems, including batteries, supercapacitors, flexible electrodes, all-solid-state devices, and bio-derived electrocatalysts.   We welcome Original Research, Reviews, Mini Reviews, and Perspectives on topics such as: biomass-derived carbon, polymer, and hybrid materials flexible electrodes and all-solid-state energy storage devices bio-derived electrocatalysts for ORR, OER, and HER interface engineering and advanced characterization of bio-based materials 📅 Manuscript submission deadline: 6 December 2026 🔗 Learn more and submit: https://lnkd.in/eeve35WT 📩 Questions? Contact: batteriesandelectrochemistry@frontiersin.org   If your work connects with sustainable materials, electrochemistry, flexible devices, or energy technologies, we would be glad to receive your contribution.   #BioBasedMaterials #EnergyStorage #EnergyConversion #FlexibleMaterials #Electrochemistry #Batteries #Supercapacitors #SustainableMaterials #OpenScience

AI-Driven Offensive and Defensive Security for Web and IoT Systems is rapidly building rapid momentum at Frontiers in Communications and Networks. Currently we have two articles published and additional articles going through Peer Review. Led by Dr. Akashdeep Bhardwaj, Antonino Galletta and Kuo-Hui Yeh, the articles, available to read are: Multimodal framework for phishing attack detection and mitigation through behavior analysis using EM-BERT and SPCA-based EAI-SC-LSTM and Deep Reinforcement Learning–Based Reversible Medical Image Encryption Framework for Secure IoMT Environments. Take a look at the full articles here: https://lnkd.in/eS2RCWKF If you want to join the conversation about the role of AI in defensive strategies for Privacy, Security and Authentication within Communication and Network channels, click here: https://lnkd.in/exmgq8yU

📣 Call for submissions! We’re inviting contributions to our Research Topic Shared Autonomous Vehicles and Environmental Rebound in European Cities in Frontiers in Future Transportation (Connected Mobility and Automation). 🗓️ Extended manuscript deadline: 30 November 2026 Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) promise efficiency, safety, and accessibility, but their system-level impact on travel demand, mode choice, and CO₂ is far from settled. Rebound effects could push vehicle kilometres travelled and emissions in the wrong direction. This collection focuses on mid-sized European cities and gathers evidence to inform mobility strategy, climate targets, and regulation. We welcome work on: 🚙 Agent-based, activity-based, and microsimulation modelling of SAV fleets 🧠 Stated/revealed preference studies on willingness to share and shifts in the value of in-vehicle time 🔋 Life-cycle assessment, energy use, and grid implications 📜 Pricing, pooling mandates, PT integration, and curb/land-use policy ⚖️ Equity, accessibility, and distributional impacts across user groups Open to Original Research, Reviews, Mini Reviews, Methods, Perspectives, Hypothesis & Theory, and more. Edited by Luigi Dell’Olio and Andrés Rodríguez Gutiérrez (University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain). 🇪🇺 If your research touches SAVs, induced demand, or sustainable urban mobility in Europe, this is your space — the extended deadline gives you more time to prepare a strong submission. 👉 Submit or learn more: https://lnkd.in/dMabm4Ai #AutonomousVehicles #SharedMobility #SustainableTransport #UrbanMobility #ReboundEffect #OpenAccess #FrontiersIn

Midway through #ICC2026 in Glasgow, and we’ve been having a great time connecting with the community so far. If you are working in communications and networks, antennas and propagation, or signal processing stop by Stand 34 - we are here to chat research, publishing, and everything in between. #OpenAccess #ICC2026  

Frontiers in Energy Research is now at the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2026 Spring Meeting in Strasbourg. Thomas Neil and Marcos González Vidal are looking forward to meeting researchers working across the energy research community, including those focused on: • Clean energy technologies • Energy storage • Hydrogen • Solar energy • Fuel cells If you are attending E-MRS this week, we would be pleased to connect and discuss your research, your publishing goals, and how Frontiers in Energy Research can support you in reaching a global audience. 📅 Book a meeting with us here: https://lnkd.in/e5dBAxup Or just come and find us at booth #36. We look forward to meeting you at E-MRS 2026. #EMRS2026 #MaterialsResearch #EnergyResearch #CleanEnergy #EnergyStorage #Hydrogen #SolarEnergy #FuelCells #FrontiersInEnergyResearch #OpenAccess

Frontiers in Energy Research is now at the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2026 Spring Meeting in Strasbourg. Thomas Neil and Marcos González Vidal are looking forward to meeting researchers working across the energy research community, including those focused on: • Clean energy technologies • Energy storage • Hydrogen • Solar energy • Fuel cells If you are attending E-MRS this week, we would be pleased to connect and discuss your research, your publishing goals, and how Frontiers in Energy Research can support you in reaching a global audience. 📅 Book a meeting with us here: https://lnkd.in/e5dBAxup Or just come and find us at booth #36. We look forward to meeting you at E-MRS 2026. #EMRS2026 #MaterialsResearch #EnergyResearch #CleanEnergy #EnergyStorage #Hydrogen #SolarEnergy #FuelCells #FrontiersInEnergyResearch #OpenAccess

📢 Last call for submissions — deadline extended! Our Research Topic Digital Transformation and Organisational Readiness in Freight Transportation: Enhancing Resilience and Sustainability in Global Logistics in Frontiers in Future Transportation (Freight Transport and Logistics) is in its final submission window. 🗓️ Extended manuscript deadline: 3 August 2026 Global freight is under pressure from volatility, sustainability targets, and the lingering lessons of pandemic-era disruption. Digital tools — IoT-enabled fleets, AI route optimisation, blockchain tracking — only deliver when organisational readiness keeps pace. This collection brings together research on: 🚛 IoT, AI, and blockchain in freight and supply chain operations 🧭 Leadership, strategy, and workforce skills for digital transformation 🔄 Change management and process redesign in logistics firms 🤝 Cross-stakeholder collaboration across carriers, forwarders, and ports 🌱 Impact of digitalisation on resilience, sustainability, and service reliability Open to Original Research, Reviews, Mini Reviews, Methods, Perspectives, Hypothesis & Theory, and more. Edited by Poti Chaopaisarn (Chiang Mai University, Thailand), Ching-Chiao Yang (National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan),  and Po-Lin Lai (Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea). Already at 5,000+ views and 786 downloads — add your work before the new deadline. 👉 Submit or learn more: https://lnkd.in/gcfr-Xqh #FreightTransport #Logistics #SupplyChain #DigitalTransformation #Resilience #OpenAccess #FrontiersIn

Join us for the June International Nuclear Engineering Colloquium with Dr Cody A. Dennett, Director of Technology Development at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, as he presents: “From SPARC to ARC - Materials and Technology Development for Fusion Power Deployment” 📅 Friday 12 June 2026 | 🕑 14:00 London time ➡️ Register: https://lnkd.in/gdp94ndm The International Nuclear Engineering Colloquium provides an open discussion forum for structured overviews of selected nuclear engineering topics. These are delivered by distinguished speakers, renowned for their expertise and reputation, to recognise, promote, and support excellence in nuclear engineering. This Colloquium Series is organised by: Felix Hofmann(University of Oxford) Sergei Dudarev (UKAEA, University of Oxford) Michael Short (MIT) Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

📣 Call for papers — now welcoming submissions! We’re delighted to launch our new Research Topic in Frontiers in Future Transportation (Advancements in Sustainable Transport): 🚗 The New Challenge for Preserving Air Quality: Characterizing, Mitigating, and Regulating Non-Exhaust Emissions from Next-Generation Vehicles As tailpipe emissions fall, non-exhaust emissions (NEEs) — from brake, tire, clutch, and road wear — are becoming the dominant source of vehicle-related particulate matter. Heavier next-generation vehicles, including EVs, only intensify the problem. Yet NEEs remain largely under-regulated. This collection brings the community together around three pillars: 🔬 Characterization — real-world measurement methods and models to quantify and chemically profile NEEs 🛠️ Mitigation — innovative materials, capture systems, traffic management, and driver-behaviour solutions 📜 Regulation — robust data to shape harmonised limits and policies We welcome work on testing & measurement, predictive modelling, chemical and toxicological analysis, X-in-the-Loop (MIL/SIL/HIL), mitigation technologies, material innovation, design optimization, environmental impact, and the global regulatory landscape. Open to Original Research, Reviews, Mini Reviews, Methods, Brief Reports, Perspectives, Hypothesis & Theory, and more. 🗓️ Manuscript deadline: 25 January 2027 Edited by Agnese Magno & Silvana Di Iorio (CNR – STEMS, Napoli, Italy) and Danilo Engelmann (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland). If you work on brake/tire wear, particulate emissions, EV environmental impact, or air-quality policy — this collection is for you. 👉 Submit or learn more: https://lnkd.in/eiXbcREe #AirQuality #NonExhaustEmissions #BrakeWear #TireWear #ParticulateMatter #ElectricVehicles #SustainableMobility #OpenAccess #FrontiersIn