Selected Extended Conference Papers from REST 2026 Conference. The Special Issue seeks to bridge engineering innovation, sustainability science, environmental assessment, and energy policy to support resilient and intelligent renewable energy transitions.

This collection will focus on recent advances in the design, fabrication, and functional evaluation of biomaterials for ocular applications, with particular emphasis on corneal tissue regeneration. The aim of this Collection is to bring together interdisciplinary contributions that bridge fundamental biomaterials research with clinically relevant solutions in ophthalmology.

With this collection, we invite studies that elucidate the mechanisms underlying these phenomena, advancing our understanding of cellular dynamics within tumours.

The Collection “Advances in Arterial Research: Emerging Insights from India” aims to showcase cutting-edge basic, translational, and clinical research advancing our understanding of arterial biology, physiology, and disease.

Communications Biology invites submissions that employ manipulative and experimental approaches in communities of macroorganisms to investigate species interactions and their consequences for ecological networks.

This Scientific Data Collection invites submissions describing datasets that support research in forensic science.

Genome Biology is calling for submissions to our Collection on Structural variation in plants: from genomic detection to function, evolution, and agricultural applications, focusing on the analysis of structural variants, emphasizing their significance in plant adaptation and crop improvement.

This Collection on Quantum and Many-Body Nonlinear Models aims to highlight significant advancements in quantum integrability, non-linear quantum models, and their applications in understanding complex systems. We seek to foster dialogue on quasi-exact solvability, spectral theory, and the roles of quantum algebras in shaping future research directions.

This Collection aims to advance knowledge in sustainable chemistry by focusing on alternative feedstocks that can reshape chemical production. We welcome research that highlights the role of renewable resources, biomass, and innovative catalytic processes.

This Collection welcomes innovative research that advances biological and hybrid engineering approaches for circular, low-carbon biomanufacturing.

This Collection welcomes critical research on UPF, addressing classification systems, causal inference, health outcomes, and implications for food policy.

This Collection explores how systems thinking, artificial intelligence, and digital innovation are reshaping sustainable STEM and teacher education across diverse educational contexts. It welcomes research on different STEM literacies, AI-supported learning and tutoring, generative AI and OER, course design, assessment, and human-centered pedagogies that foster inclusive, ethical, and scalable educational innovation.

This Collection highlights One Health research that advances sustainable aquaculture and food systems through integrated perspectives on aquatic animal health, biosecurity, disease prevention, water quality, food safety, climate resilience, and ecosystem stewardship.

This Collection welcomes chemical, biophysical, biological, and bioengineering studies on the design, synthesis, mechanisms, and applications of synthetic biomolecular condensates.

Aiming to boost the exploitation of extracellular vesicles in drug delivery, this collection is open to original research across all delivery aspect of EVs, spanning mechanism understanding the process, along with functional study of EVs, separation strategies for EVs production, engineering strategies in EVs secretion and functionalization, and translational applications with EVs as carriers or therapeutic agents.

This Scientific Reports Collection invites submissions on fracture mechanics and multi-physics coupling for unconventional reservoir development, including in-situ stress evaluation, fracture evolution prediction, and fault reactivation risk analysis in complex geological formations.

This topical collection aims to bring together recent advances, innovative methodologies, and interdisciplinary applications of digital soil mapping and geospatial technologies for sustainable land management.

This Collection invites contributions related to strong motion observations, instrumentation, data processing, earthquake source studies, ground motion simulations, attenuation relationships, site effects, seismic microzonation, earthquake engineering applications, and integration of strong motion data into disaster risk reduction frameworks.

This Collection features interdisciplinary research that quantifies the environmental, economic, and social performance of urban landscapes and explicitly links this evidence to concrete planning and policy decisions. We welcome submissions spanning multiple scales that advance how cities measure, model, and operationalize spatial solutions to achieve climate resilience, public health, economic vitality, and social equity.

The collection is particularly interested in contributions that move beyond technological determinism and assess the social, political, and institutional conditions under which AI can be placed at the service of the common good.