This special collection aims to highlight how digital, computational, and experimental advances are transforming composite materials design and manufacturing. Machine learning and digital twins for property prediction, inverse design, and defect detection in composites. Computational rheology, process modeling, and 3D printing simulation of polymeric and hybrid composites. Molecular dynamics and continuum coupling to explore interfacial behavior and failure mechanisms.

This collection explores how semantic web technologies can be applied to integrate and represent knowledge across life sciences—such as healthcare, biology, agriculture, and biodiversity—to advance research, innovation, and practice.

The sustainable development and application of materials for renewable energy technologies is critical for advancing a circular economy and meeting SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production under the 2030 Agenda. This special collection aims to highlight cutting-edge research on materials that enable renewable energy solutions, with a focus on their design, processing, recycling, and performance optimization.

Extreme Weather Impacts on Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable water resources

This Collection focuses on advancing the understanding and application of natural pozzolans as sustainable supplementary cementitious materials, covering their composition, reactivity, and impact on concrete performance. It aims to highlight innovative research that supports low-carbon construction, enhances durability, and addresses the global need for reliable alternative SCMs.

Polymer modified cementitious composites (PMCCs) synergistically combine polymeric additives with traditional cement-based systems to overcome inherent limitations such as brittleness, low tensile strength, and poor durability, resulting in substantially improved mechanical performance and environmental resistance. This collection explores the types of polymer modifiers, their effects on microstructural development and material properties, and their applications in modern construction including

By bringing together these diverse perspectives, this Collection aims to highlight cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research that drives the transition from conventional plastics toward sustainable, circular, and value-added bio-packaging solutions. Ultimately, the collection seeks to bridge fundamental science with real-world industrial applications.

This Collection aims to provide a forward-looking vision of how bioelectric medicine may overcome the current barriers and evolve into a mainstream therapeutic option in orthopedic and maxillofacial bone regeneration.

This collection focuses on how metabolic pathways interact with epigenetic and chromatin regulation to shape gene expression, chromatin structure, and cellular function in health and disease. We welcome studies providing mechanistic insights, structural analyses, and innovative methods to uncover this interplay in development, aging, and disorders such as cancer and metabolic syndrome.

This collection focuses on advancing the science of enabling environments that allow health systems to function as learning organizations—systems that continuously generate, share, and apply knowledge for adaptive improvement and equity. It brings together conceptual, empirical, and practice-based work on the structural, cultural, and capability-building conditions that sustain learning, including leadership, governance, data infrastructure, funding models, and workforce development.

This Collection in Molecular Neurodegeneration aims to explore the pivotal role of lipid metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases. Contributions will provide a concise resource for researchers and clinicians, emphasizing lipids as both drivers and therapeutic targets in neurodegenerative disorders.

This Collection seeks to assemble innovative research on synthetic genomes, highlighting the latest advances in synthetic biology and genome engineering. We welcome submissions that explore the design, application, and implications of synthetic genomes across various domains, including healthcare, agriculture, and environmental sustainability. Join us and contribute to the future of this rapidly evolving field.

This Scientific Reports Collection brings together original research on high harmonic generation, focusing on the underlying physical mechanisms and on the next generation of experimental setups.

This collection invites research on sex and gender differences in health, disease, treatment response, and disparities in aging research—advancing inclusive, equitable biomedical knowledge.

This Collection invites research on sex and gender differences in antimicrobial use, resistance, treatment efficacy, and underlying biological, behavioral, social or environmental factors.

This collection focuses on the study of broken symmetries and the unconventional ordered states in the rapidly growing field of kagome metals, with potential applications in cutting-edge technology.

This collection invites innovative research on drug discovery strategies to enhance antibody-based therapeutics in immuno-oncology, and explores novel drug formats, mechanistic pathways, and resistance mechanisms.

This Collection aims to compile comprehensive insights into the biosynthesis pathways, regulatory mechanisms, and ecological significance of plant secondary metabolites. It will also explore how advanced approaches in metabolomics, genomics, and biotechnology are deepening our understanding of these processes and shaping future research directions in plant science.

Studies focused on the development of advanced polymers and polymer-based composites for high-temperature energy-storage capacitors are sought. The Collection also encompasses mechanistic investigations of dielectric breakdown and charge-transfer behaviors.