CJCE’s latest virtual issue is now live: Editor’s Choice 2025. This virtual issue features Editor’s Choice articles from each issue published in 2025.
Within this virtual issue, you will find articles exploring a variety of topics from across the chemical engineering field. For example, the Editor’s Choice article from the November issue was the “Preface to the Catalysis for Decarbonization Special Issue Section”. This preface introduces a special section within the same issue featuring a collection of articles from the 27th Canadian Symposium on Catalysis (Sherbrooke, Canada, 2024) that guest editors Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre, Bruna Rego de Vasconcelos, and Ying Zheng note “demonstrate the diversity and depth of current research in the field” and “highlight the importance of catalyst design, mechanistic understanding, and process optimization in addressing urgent environmental and energy challenges”. Be sure to check out this preface and special issue section for more on this topic.
In the August issue, the Editor’s Choice article was an addition to the Conversations in Chemical Engineering Special Series: “Human flaws and logical tools in engineering” by André C. R. Martins of Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. In the editorial from CJCE Editor-in-Chief João B. P. Soares on this series, he discusses this article:
“In this intellectually generous and quietly provocative essay, Professor Martins asks a question that resonates far beyond the modelling of chemical engineering systems: How do we think, how do we know, and how do we acknowledge what we don’t? Drawing from epistemology, cognitive science, and Bayesian reasoning, André builds a case for methodological humility—a call to reduce error, not to claim certainty—especially in the face of complex systems and limited data…André’s article is a timely and thoughtful reminder that the best science does not merely aim to predict, but to understand, to enlighten, to clarify—and to do so with honesty.”
The Editor’s Choice article from the July issue was the first article in an ongoing series titled “Pathways to a Circular Economy of Plastics” organized by Guest Editor Dimitrios Meimaroglou of Université de Lorraine, France. In this article, titled “Biorecycling of polylactide: From enzymatic depolymerization to biotransformation of released products” by Alaric Catard, Isabelle Chevalot, and Sandrine Hoppe of Université de Lorraine, France, the authors note “Polylactic acid (PLA) is a polymer that can replace several petroleum-based polymers due to its properties and bio-sourced nature” though “sustainable recycling processes of PLA avoiding the creation of waste and enabling it to be used as a raw material must be implemented.” The authors also discuss “enzymatic hydrolysis” and “different approaches that have led to the discovery of new PLA depolymerizing enzymes” as well as provide an overview of a number of related approaches.
Articles within this virtual issue are either open access or have been set as free-to-read for a limited time. Be sure to check out this issue to explore the Editor’s Choice articles from 2025.